Places 360 compared with Squid.
Squid prices digital loyalty by the number of customers using it each month. Places 360 charges one flat price per business, whatever the month does. Here is the rest of the difference, with the figures either side.
This page compares Places 360 with Squid on what a business asks before signing: the price, what the price moves with, how a stamp gets onto a card, what else is included, and the contract.
Every figure in the Squid column comes from Squid’s own public pages, read on 12 September 2026. We wrote this page and we sell one of the two products, so weigh it accordingly. Prices change, ours included, so check both yourself.
| Places 360 | Squid | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Digital loyalty priced by monthly active customers. The pricing table we retrieved displayed euros, not GBP. The Wave partner offer has no monthly fee and a stated £20 setup. |
| Price basis | Per business, covering every location. A second café is not a second subscription. | Per monthly active customer. |
| How a stamp is collected | An NFC tap on a registered tag, validated on the server, with cooldowns and caps. A PIN-authorised staff QR scan is the fallback. Points on spend run beside the stamp card. | App-based stamps and points. |
| Menu, ordering, your own page, team and time clock | All in the one product: menu builder, ordering with real card payments, a branded page (with a custom domain from Regulars), roles with PIN seats, and a time clock add-on. | We found nothing stated on the pages we read. |
| Contract | The Free plan has no contract, no setup fee and no time limit. Cancel any time. | We found no contract terms published on the pages we read. |
| Look at this closely | 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: from 1.75% + 15p + VAT (2.10% + 18p inc. VAT) on UK debit cards on a paid plan; other cards cost their real rate. | How a monthly active customer is counted, what the euro figures come to on a UK bill, and what the bill does in your busiest month. Wave Points was Republic-of-Ireland only as of July 2026. |
Where Squid wins.
A route with no monthly fee. The Wave partner offer carries no monthly fee and a stated £20 setup. Wave Points was Republic-of-Ireland only as of July 2026, so check whether you qualify; for a business that does, that is loyalty without a subscription.
A bill that falls in a quiet month. Pricing by monthly active customers works in both directions. If your programme has a slow winter, a bill based on activity comes down with it. A flat monthly price does not.
What is different about Places 360.
Four things, and customers only notice the first. The tap. A customer holds their phone to a tag by the till and the stamp lands. No phone number read out over a queue.
A flat price. Nothing in our pricing moves with how well the programme works. £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) a month is the same in your busiest week as in your quietest, and it is per business, not per site and not per customer.
No POS dependency. Places 360 sits beside any till, or none. Change your till next year and the cards, the menu and the page stay put.
A path out. Your page and your domain now, your own app on the Branded app plan when you want it, on the same backend.
Under all four: loyalty with stamps and points on spend, menus, ordering with real payments, your page and your team from one vendor, at one flat price per business covering every location. A per-customer loyalty price is not directly comparable, because the flat price buys more than loyalty.
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. From Squid’s side, no partner route that removes the monthly fee.
Who should pick which.
If you qualify for the Wave offer and loyalty is all you need, Squid is the straighter answer. If your programme is small and seasonal, activity-based pricing may cost you less. Pick Places 360 if you want the bill to stay still as the programme grows, if you have more than one site, or if the menu and your own page matter as much as the stamps.
Squid figures taken from Squid’s public pages, last checked 12 September 2026. Not affiliated with Squid; the name is used to identify the product.
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