Places 360 compared with Embargo.
Embargo does not publish a price, so the number arrives on a demo call. Here is what both products cost, how a stamp is collected, and what else is included, with everything about Embargo taken from their own public pages.
This page compares Places 360 with Embargo on the things a buyer asks about first: what it costs, what the price is charged per, how a stamp is collected, and what else arrives alongside the loyalty card.
Every Embargo figure below comes from Embargo’s own public pages, read on 12 September 2026. We wrote this page and we sell one of the two products, so read it with that in mind. Where Embargo publishes nothing, the cell says so rather than guessing. Prices and pages change, so check both before you decide.
| Places 360 | Embargo | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free £0. Regulars £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) a month. Growth £59 + VAT (£70.80 inc. VAT); Branded app £99 + VAT (£118.80 inc. VAT) a month. | Not published. A quote page says “starting from £1 per day per site”; the pricing page 404s. |
| Price basis | Per business, covering every location. A second café is not a second subscription. | Not stated on their page. |
| How a stamp is collected | The customer taps an NFC tag on your counter. Tag UIDs are registered, cooldowns and daily caps are checked on the server, and a PIN-authorised staff QR scan is the fallback. | A wallet card. A hardware reader is offered and is not priced on their pages. |
| What else is included | Menus and ordering with real card payments, your own page in the app and on the web (on your own domain from Regulars), offers and promo codes, team roles with an employee time clock add-on, analytics and accountant CSV exports. | CRM and ordering are part of the suite. What each price includes is not published. |
| Contract | No contract and no setup fee. The Free plan stays at £0 a month with no time limit. Cancel any time. | Not published. |
| Look at this closely | Whether the gaps listed below matter to you. | Ask what the quote covers per site, whether the reader is extra, how long the term runs, and what the price does at renewal. |
Where Embargo wins.
Embargo has been at this a long time and it shows. Their CRM is deeper than ours: if your plan is to segment a customer base and run campaigns against it, that is their home ground, and ours is a dashboard, a customer list and CSV exports for your accountant.
They also run a consumer app with an audience of its own. That is a real front end with people already in it, and not something we can claim.
They also offer a hardware reader. A fixed unit survives a busy bar better than anything adhesive, and if your counter is wet, metal or heavily handled, that is a sensible thing to want.
What is different about Places 360.
The price is published and flat. £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) a month covers your business, not each site, and nothing in it moves when the programme works. You can read the number here instead of booking a call to learn it.
The stamp is a tap. One comes free with every paid plan, further tags are £9 + VAT, and you register one by tapping it in the app. Nothing has to be read out at the till.
It does not depend on your till. Places 360 sits beside whatever you run now, or beside nothing, and if you change till your cards, menus and page come with you.
And loyalty is where you start rather than where you stop. Menus and ordering with real card payments, your own page (on your own domain from Regulars), offers and promo codes, team roles and a time clock all come from one vendor at one price, and your own branded app, on the Branded app plan, runs on the same backend.
What Places 360 does not do.
Bookings, reservations and subscriptions are coming soon, not here yet, so for now a business that books appointments keeps its existing tool. There is no full customer-list export: transactions, menus and timesheets export to CSV, and on Branded app so do the customers who said yes to your marketing emails, but not the whole list.
Against Embargo specifically: we have no consumer app with their audience, no CRM as deep as theirs, and no hardware reader, only tags and a staff QR scan.
Who should pick which.
If campaign-led CRM is the point of the exercise, or you want a fixed reader on the counter and a sales team to size it for you, talk to Embargo. If you want a published price you can budget against, one bill for loyalty, menus, ordering and your page across every site, and a tap instead of a wallet card, start with us.
Embargo figures last checked 12 September 2026, from Embargo’s own public pages. Not affiliated with Embargo; the name is used to identify the product.
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