Places 360 compared with Square Loyalty.
Square Loyalty runs inside the Square till you already have, priced per location and banded by monthly loyalty visits. Places 360 runs beside any till, at one flat price per business that covers every location.
This page compares Square Loyalty with Places 360 on the things a venue that already runs a Square till has to decide: what loyalty costs, what the price is charged per, how a stamp gets collected, and what else arrives alongside it. Every Square Loyalty figure below comes from Square’s own public pages, read on 12 September 2026. We wrote this page, and we sell one of the two products. Prices move, so check theirs before you decide anything.
| Square Loyalty | Places 360 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £25 / £45 / £65 a month, by monthly loyalty visits. | Free £0 a month. Regulars £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT). Growth £59 + VAT (£70.80 inc. VAT); Branded app £99 + VAT (£118.80 inc. VAT). |
| Price basis | Per location, plus Square processing. Marketing is extra: from £9 a month, rising with your contact list. | Per business, covering every location. A second café is not a second subscription. |
| How a stamp is collected | The customer gives a phone number at the Square till. | The customer taps an NFC tag on the counter with their phone. A PIN-authorised staff QR scan is the fallback, and the customer’s own stamp code works with no signal. |
| Menu, ordering, your own page, team and time clock | Sold separately: Square Online for ordering, Marketing from £9 a month. The full Square comparison. | Menus and ordering with real card payments, your own branded page and domain, offers and promo codes, team roles with an employee time clock, analytics and accountant CSV exports. |
| Contract | Not stated on the pricing pages we read. | No contract, no setup fee, cancel any time. The Free plan stays £0 for as long as you want it. |
| Look at this closely | The tier steps up with monthly loyalty visits, so a programme that works moves you into the next band. Card processing is charged separately. | One tag comes free with every paid plan; further tags are £9 + VAT each. You register one by tapping it in the app. Card payments start 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. |
Where Square Loyalty wins.
It is already in the till. Nothing new goes on the counter, nobody registers anything, and the stamp happens inside the sale the cashier is ringing up anyway. If your staff turn over often, that matters more than any feature list. Places 360 gives points on what customers spend too, but for a sale rung up on the Square till, someone types the amount.
The customer needs nothing at all. A phone number at the till asks for no app, no tag and no signal, which is about the lowest thing you can ask of someone buying a coffee for the first time.
And it is one account. Loyalty sits next to the payments data it came from, with one login and one set of reporting, and Square’s own marketing tool, from £9 a month, is a step away if you want to mail those customers.
What is different about Places 360.
The tap. A phone held to a tag is faster than reading out a number at a busy counter, and the customer gets a card they can see fill up. Stamps are validated server-side with cooldowns, daily caps and optional geofencing, so the tap is quick without being loose.
A flat price. Nothing about the bill moves when the programme works. Square Loyalty is banded by monthly loyalty visits, so success walks you up the tiers; ours does not, and ours covers every location you run on one subscription.
No dependency on the till. Places 360 sits beside your Square till, or beside any other, or beside none. We integrate with Square POS, but the stamps, the menu and the page belong to your account, so changing till does not restart your loyalty programme.
A path onwards. Your page now, your own domain from Regulars, your own branded app on the Branded app plan, on the same backend, with the same customers and the same stamp history. See what is coming next .
What Places 360 does not do.
Bookings, reservations and subscriptions are coming soon, not here yet, so for now a business that lives by the diary keeps its existing booking tool. No full customer-list export. Transactions, menus and timesheets export as CSV, and on Branded app so do the customers who said yes to your marketing emails; the rest of the list stays in the dashboard.
And our till is newer. Places 360 has an iPad counter that takes cash, and cards on a Stripe card reader; scan the customer’s code at it and the sale earns their stamps and points. Square has run tills for far longer, with its own range of hardware. If your in-person takings already live in Square and that suits you, keep them there and run us beside it.
Who should pick which.
If you are staying on Square, you want loyalty to be one less thing to think about, and stamps are the whole of what you need, add it inside Square and stop reading. If you want the stamp card, the menu and ordering, and your own page from one vendor at one price that covers both sites and does not climb as the programme works, that is the case for us. If you are unsure, start on the Free plan at £0 and keep the Square programme running beside it.
Square Loyalty figures from Square’s public pricing pages, last checked 12 September 2026. Not affiliated with Square Loyalty; the name is used to identify the product. See our pricing in full or the other comparisons .
Try it beside what you use now.
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