Your digital stamp card can be ready for today’s customers. These five steps take you from setting up Treubar to awarding the first stamp, with no separate app for guests to install.
Step 1: Create your free account
Start in your browser or download Treubar – Stempelkarten from the App Store or Google Play. Create an account with your email address, Apple or Google. Enter your business name and you’re ready. To try it out, the free digital stamp card is enough.
Have your logo and chosen reward ready. That is enough to start designing your card.
Step 2: Design your card
Choose one of 72 templates, from an espresso motif for cafés to a gym motif for studios. Or start with your own design:
- Pick a template: The template supplies the background image and colours; you set the stamp target and the reward separately. Every motif comes in a light and a dark version, and the colours are yours to change either way.
- Or design your own: If you want full freedom, upload your own background image, such as a photo of your shop, and the app adjusts the colours where needed so your logo and text stay legible. Your logo goes on the card either way, on every plan.
- Set the stamp target: Find the right number with the maths in how many stamps should your card have?
- Name the reward clearly: “After ten coffees, the next one is on the house” beats “a surprise”. Customers should know at first glance what they’re collecting for.
Check your card in the live preview. Add a test pass to your own phone to see it in the wallet before launch. For logo, colour and other options, see design your stamp card.
Step 3: Print the QR code and put it on the counter
Export your card’s QR code from the app as a print-ready PDF. Print it and put it in clear view at the counter, till or bar: wherever customers briefly wait to pay.
Tip: One short line on the display helps more than any design: “Scan me, enter your name and date of birth, and the stamp card is in your wallet. No app needed.”
Step 4: Customers add the card to their wallet
Your customer scans the QR code, enters their first name, last name and date of birth once, then taps “Add”. The card goes into Apple Wallet, or Google Wallet on Android. No separate app, no email address.
Customers need no password or confirmation email.
Step 5: Award the first stamp
After making a purchase, the customer shows their wallet card with its own QR code. You or your team scan it in the app’s Scan tab. The pass updates automatically and immediately: 6 of 10 becomes 7 of 10. Apple Wallet also shows a note on the lock screen.
Treubar unlocks the reward automatically when the card is full. You can redeem it together straight away, or the customer can save it for later.
Rush-hour tip: Scanning also works when your Wi-Fi is having a moment. The app remembers the stamps and files them as soon as the connection is back. The details of stamping by QR code have their own page.
Loyalty card, punch card or stamp card: is it the same setup?
Yes, if you want to reward visits. Customers collect a stamp each time and earn a reward after a set number. Call it a loyalty card, punch card or stamp card: the five steps stay the same. One visit, one stamp.
It’s different if you’re thinking of a points scheme, with points for every euro spent. Treubar doesn’t do that, and shops where most purchases are a similar size rarely need it. When points or prepaid credit suit you better, and how the terms actually differ, is covered in stamps, points or prepaid credit.
What to know on day one
- Practise at the start of the shift. Everyone on the team should know how to add a card, award a stamp and redeem a reward.
- Start simple, adjust later. One clear reward beats any complicated rule. If the target turns out too high after a few weeks, you change it in the app, with no reprint; customers who already have stamps keep the old target for their current card. The design guide covers what makes a card work.
- Check the dashboard after a week. How many cards are out there, how many stamps were given? You never had these numbers with paper, so use them.
Ready for your counter
Start free with one card, one location and up to 20 customer passes. All 72 templates, your own design and unlimited staff logins with roles are included in Free. No credit card needed.
Set up your first card and run through it with your team. When you need more customer passes, compare the options on the loyalty card pricing page. The basics are in the guide Digital loyalty card.