Hang vs SpenVest

Hang is a restaurant guest-experience platform that combines loyalty and ordering with offers, CRM, and a customer data platform. Restaurants can set points, earn rates, tiers, benefits, and rewards, with program details synced across the app, wallet pass, and register. Guests can enroll through the app, at the register, or online; activity from POS, app, web, and delivery can be brought together in one profile. Loyalty options include branded minigames, mystery boxes, streaks, quests, challenges, puzzles, trivia, and badges. Ordering features cover order-ahead, menu modifiers, pickup scheduling, Uber Direct delivery, Stripe payments, scan and pay, gift cards, and stored value. Businesses can also use referrals, paid memberships, targeted rewards, social media rewards, polls, surveys, a partner API, and webhooks. Hang says its AI monitors redemptions and flags what prompts return visits. Apps are listed for Android and iOS, alongside web and API platforms. Pricing is on request; businesses can request a free branded prototype, but no free software plan is stated.

SpenVest connects eligible restaurant sales to digital rewards while letting businesses keep their existing POS. Its Rewards Engine supports points, stamps, store value credit, cashback, reward thresholds, campaigns, bonus rules, redemption authorisations and refund reversals. A merchant dashboard shows reward members, recent activity and redemption history. Square supports sales, refunds and product catalogue data; Shopify POS and Clover support sales and refunds. Merchants can also send authenticated sale and refund events through the API, with signed webhooks for connected workflows. Eligible products can use an online catalogue and checkout for click and collect or local delivery. Payments are processed by the merchant's connected payment provider and paid to a configured merchant-owned account; SpenVest says it does not hold sales revenue. The company says it is built for Australian independent businesses and that coverage of participating merchants is expanding across Australia. Its free Connect plan supports one location but does not calculate rewards. The Rewards Engine costs $39 a month, billed monthly per location and excluding GST. The listed platforms include Android, iOS, web and API.