Loyalty Gator vs Welcome Back

Loyalty Gator provides cloud-based customer loyalty, gift card, and employee incentive programs for businesses. Programs can award points for purchases, actions, or referrals, and support digital punch cards and other reward options. The company says businesses do not need a point-of-sale connection. Customers can enroll online and check balances through the business website on a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Businesses can review customer activity and marketing reports and export customer lists for campaigns. The service offers a developer API and Zapier connections, plus integrations including Mailchimp, Shopify, QuickBooks Online, and Square. Its TangoCard connection lets customers redeem points for electronic gift cards. Plans include unlimited loyalty transactions and no transaction fees, subject to fair use and possible extra bandwidth charges. Bite supports up to 100 customers; Snack supports up to 5,000 and adds birthday points and Zapier integration; Meal supports up to 10,000 and adds a customer web portal, referrals, social integration, Google Analytics, and Tawk.to integrations. A 30-day free trial and money-back guarantee are listed, excluding custom development and white-label services. The company says cancellation after the trial requires 30 days' notice.

Welcome Back is a platform for restaurants and cafés that combines sales, loyalty and marketing, and is designed to work alongside an existing POS. Customers can save a points card to Apple Wallet or Google Pay from a QR code without installing an app. Marketing tools include wallet notifications, email campaigns, guest-history segments and automated welcome, win-back and birthday campaigns. Guests can scan a QR code to view a digital menu and send orders to the team. Its conversational AI POS supports taking payments, managing menus and checking sales from a phone or tablet, without special hardware. Team tools include roles, permissions, per-person sales visibility and management of multiple locations in one account. The company lists availability in Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru and Spain, and says onboarding takes less than 48 hours. Start is $59 a month, Grow is $89 a month and Pro is $129 a month; each adds 19 USD per month for each additional location. Essential is 99,990 CLP a month, billed plus VAT.