Places 360 vs RWRD.
RWRD runs a consumer app with an audience of its own. Places 360 gives a business its own page, loyalty, menus and ordering at one flat price. Here is what each published price buys.
This page compares two things a business owner has to weigh separately: what the subscription costs and on what basis, and what a listing inside somebody else’s consumer app is actually worth to you. Every RWRD figure below comes from RWRD’s own public pages, read on 12 September 2026. We wrote this page, so treat it as our account of the difference rather than a neutral review. Prices and pages change, so check theirs before you commit, and check ours too.
| Places 360 | RWRD | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free £0, Regulars £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT), Growth £59 + VAT (£70.80 inc. VAT); Branded app £99 + VAT (£118.80 inc. VAT) a month. | £25 Kickstart or £40 Rocket a month, with additional-site charges. |
| Price basis | Per business, covering every location. A second café is not a second subscription. | Per site above the first, so a second site adds to the bill. |
| How a stamp is collected | The customer taps their phone on a Places 360 tag whose UID you registered in the app. The server validates it, with 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. | In the RWRD consumer app, which carries its own audience. RWRD Local connects merchants to partner audiences. The counter step is not stated on their page. |
| Menus and ordering | Menu builder with modifiers and VAT categories, collection, eat-in and delivery, advance orders, real card payments from 1.75% + 15p + VAT (2.10% + 18p inc. VAT) per online card payment on UK debit cards on a paid plan. | Not stated on their page. |
| Your own page | A branded page in the app and on the web, with your logo, colour, hours and blocks, and a custom domain from Regulars. | Not stated on their page. |
| Team and time clock | Owner, manager and staff roles with PIN seats, plus an employee time clock add-on with NFC and geo check-in and timesheets. | Not stated on their page. |
| Contract | The Free plan has no contract, no setup fee and no time limit. Cancel any time. | Not stated on their page. |
| Look at this closely | A listing in our app is a listing, not an audience. Judge us on what the subscription does for your existing customers. | Ask what a second site adds to the bill, and whether the figures shown are before VAT. |
Where RWRD wins.
RWRD has a consumer app that people already have on their phones, and that is a real asset. We do not have one at that scale, and no feature list closes that gap. If your reason for buying is that somebody who has never heard of you might open an app and find you, RWRD is selling exactly that and we are not.
RWRD Local goes further and connects merchants to partner audiences, which is a distribution route rather than a piece of software. It is the sort of thing you cannot build yourself, and it does not appear in any of our plans.
They also do one job, which makes them easy to judge. You can decide in an afternoon whether their audience reaches the streets around you. A broader product takes longer to evaluate, and that is a genuine cost of choosing us.
What is different about Places 360.
Four things. The tap: a customer holds their phone to a tag on the counter and the stamp lands, which is faster and nicer than reading out a phone number. The flat price: £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) a month does not move when the programme works, and it does not move when you open a second shop. No till dependency: it sits beside any POS, or none, and you can change till supplier without losing your stamps or your menu. The graduation path: your page and your domain now, your own app on the Branded app plan when you want it, on the same backend.
The practical version is that loyalty, menus, ordering with real payments, your own page and your team all come from one vendor on one bill that covers every location. See how the loyalty side works .
What Places 360 does not do.
Bookings, reservations and subscriptions are coming soon, not here yet. If you take appointments, keep the tool you have for now. No full customer-list export, though transactions, menus and timesheets export as CSV for your accountant, and on Branded app so do the customers who said yes to your marketing emails.
And the honest one for this page: no consumer network, and nothing like RWRD Local. Our app is deliberately quiet so your brand is the loud thing on your own page, which is the right trade for keeping customers and the wrong one for finding strangers.
Who should pick which.
If you are buying access to an audience that already exists, pick RWRD, and judge it on whether that audience is near you. If you have the customers and want the counter step to be quicker, the price to stay still as you grow, and menus, ordering and your own page on the same bill, we are the better fit. If you want both, they can run side by side, and you should tell us what you are weighing up .
Sources: RWRD’s own public pages, last checked 12 September 2026. Not affiliated with RWRD; the name is used to identify the product. Other comparisons are listed on the compare page .
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