Places 360 compared with Loyalzoo.
Loyalzoo’s published entry price is £57 a month + VAT, per location. Places 360 is £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) for the whole business. This page sets out what each figure buys, and where Loyalzoo is the better answer.
BASIS
This page compares two subscriptions a local business might buy: Loyalzoo’s and ours. Every Loyalzoo figure below comes from Loyalzoo’s own public pages, read on 12 September 2026, and nothing has been filled in from inference or memory. Where they publish no figure, the cell says so rather than guessing. We make Places 360 and we wrote this, so read their pages too. Prices and packaging change; check both before you commit to either.
| Compared | Places 360 | Loyalzoo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free £0 a month. 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. | Grow £57 a month + VAT. Smart £127 a month + VAT. A 7-day trial. |
| Price basis | Per business, covering every location. A second café is not a second subscription. | Per location as published. |
| How a stamp is collected | The customer taps an NFC tag on the counter. Tag UIDs are registered, validation is server-side, with per-card cooldowns, daily caps and optional geofencing. A PIN-authorised staff QR scan is the fallback, and the customer’s own stamp code works with no signal. | Check-in at the till. Runs on your ePOS or without one. |
| Menus and ordering | Included. Menu builder with modifier rules and VAT categories, collection, eat-in and delivery, advance orders, an order board, real card payments. | Not stated on their page. |
| Your own page | Included. A branded page in the Places 360 app and on the web, with blocks, opening hours, multi-location, and a custom domain from Regulars. | Not stated on their page. |
| Team and time clock | Included. Owner, manager and staff roles with PIN seats; an employee time clock add-on with NFC and geo check-in, kiosk mode and timesheets. | Not stated on their page. |
| Messaging to customers | Offers, promo codes and page updates. Marketing push comes with the Branded app plan, under your own app’s name. | Email and push are unlimited and free. SMS and WhatsApp use paid messaging credits. |
| Contract | No contract, no setup fee, cancel any time. The Free plan stays at £0 with no time limit. | Not published. A 7-day trial is published. |
| Look closely at | Our card rate: from 1.75% + 15p + VAT (2.10% + 18p inc. VAT) per online card payment on UK debit cards on a paid plan; other cards cost their real rate. And at the list below of what we do not do. | How many sites you would be billed for, and what your monthly SMS or WhatsApp volume would cost on top of the subscription. |
Figures for both products as published on 12 September 2026. “Not stated on their page” means we found no published answer, not that the answer is no.
Where Loyalzoo wins.
Their POS integration list is long, and that matters more than any feature comparison if you already run a till they support. Loyalty that lives in the till means the person serving does not learn a second motion: they ring the sale, the customer checks in, and the stamp follows the transaction you were already recording.
Their messaging reach is wider than ours. Email and push are unlimited and free on Loyalzoo, and SMS and WhatsApp are available on paid message credits. We send marketing push only from a business’s own app, on the Branded app plan at £99 + VAT a month, never through the shared Places 360 app. If getting a message to last month’s quiet customers is the job you are buying for, they do it today and we do not.
And the check-in at the till needs no new object on the counter. No tag to register, nothing to replace when it is scraped off by a cleaner.
What is different about Places 360.
Four things, and the price is only one of them.
The tap. A tag on the counter, tapped with a phone, is faster and nicer than reading out a phone number in front of a queue. One comes free with every paid plan, further tags are £9 + VAT, and you register one by tapping it in the app.
A flat price. £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) a month is per business and covers every location. Nothing in the bill moves when the programme works or when you open a second shop.
No till dependency. It sits beside whatever you use now, or beside nothing. Change tills next year and your cards, customers and history are untouched.
One vendor. Loyalty, menus, ordering with real card payments, your own page (on your own domain from Regulars), and a team with roles and a time clock all come from us at that one price. The business logic sits in the backend, so your own branded app, on the Branded app plan, reuses the same stamps and the same menu rather than starting again.
What Places 360 does not do.
Bookings, reservations and subscriptions are coming soon, not here yet, so for now a business that lives on an appointment diary keeps its existing tool. There is no full customer-list export; transactions, menu and timesheet CSVs are what you can take out, plus, on Branded app, the customers who said yes to your marketing emails.
Against Loyalzoo specifically: we have no SMS or WhatsApp marketing, no marketing push without that branded app, and one POS integration, Square, against their list.
Who should pick which.
If your till is on their integration list and you want to text or message your customers this month, pick Loyalzoo and pay the £57 + VAT. If you want the stamp card, the menu, ordering and your own page from one vendor at £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT), on any till or none, and across more than one site without the bill changing, pick us. If you need bookings today, neither of us is the answer on its own.
Loyalzoo prices and product details from Loyalzoo’s own public pages, last checked 12 September 2026. Not affiliated with Loyalzoo; the name is used to identify the product.
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