Kangaroo Rewards vs Thanx

Kangaroo Rewards is a paid loyalty and customer-engagement platform for businesses, available on Android, iOS, web, and through an API. Businesses can award points for purchases, visits, or other actions, then let customers exchange points for products, services, or partner rewards. Membership tiers can use spending, visit frequency, or engagement criteria and attach tier-specific benefits. Marketing tools include automated email and SMS campaigns, templates, segmentation, and real-time tracking. Kangaroo describes an experience spanning in-store POS, e-commerce, and mobile apps, with integrations such as Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, Lightspeed, Heartland, Mailchimp, and Mindbody. Its API supports bidirectional real-time synchronization with business systems. Branded mobile apps can include rewards, notifications, QR scanning, referrals, bookings, and geofencing. Plans start at $79 a month; there is no free plan.

Thanx is an integrated guest-engagement platform for restaurant marketers focused on increasing visit frequency. Its loyalty tools support points, optional tiers, discounts, experiential rewards and enrollment without an app. Marketing automation provides lifecycle campaigns, AI-assisted segmentation, A/B testing and targeting across more than 400 guest attributes. Restaurants can offer branded mobile apps and web ordering with persistent login, one-click reorder and integrated loyalty. Thanx lists more than 60 pre-built integrations spanning POS, ordering, kiosks, feedback, customer-data and marketing systems, including Toast, Square, Qu, Olo and Deliverect. Data access includes dashboards, nightly SFTP exports, data-warehouse synchronization and APIs for technology partners. The company states SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider status and uptime above 99.95%. Dedicated developer support and managed maintenance are included. Pricing is by quote for USA and Canada companies.