Fidelity Customer Stamp
Turn first visits into regulars.
Ficus is loyalty for independent cafés and shops. Put a QR code on the counter, and your customers collect visits and unlock offers from their phone. You set the rules and see who comes back, all from one dashboard.
Free during the beta · No hardware, just a printed code
How it works
Three steps. No punch cards to lose.
01
Create a Leaf
A Leaf is a QR code with rules attached: how many visits earn a reward, how often it can be scanned, when it expires. Print it and put it by the till.
02
Customers scan
With the Ficus app a scan takes a second. Every visit is checked before it counts, so the rules hold even when someone gets creative.
Redeemed
Cornetto on us · Alex M.
Next cycle starts at 0/3
03
Redeem at the counter
When a reward unlocks it appears in the customer's app as a QR. Staff scan it from the dashboard, and it lands in your numbers straight away.
The dashboard
Everything the till can't tell you.
Who your regulars are, who hasn't been in for a while, which offers bring people back. It's all there, and none of it needs a spreadsheet.
Leaves
Offers that unlock after a number of visits, or plain check-ins that just count. Each one has its own rules and its own QR.
Free espresso
Offer · every 6 visits
Cornetto on us
Offer · 3 visits, up to 3 times
Table check-in
Check-in · no reward
Summer granita
Offer · 4 visits
Campaigns
Pick a group and send them an offer in one click.
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Customers
Regulars and the ones drifting away, side by side.
Scanner
Any laptop or phone with a camera becomes a redemption point. No camera? Type the code.
Fair by design
A visit only counts when it really happens, a reward can only be redeemed once, and each business only ever sees its own customers.
For your customers
One app for every place they love.
- A wallet of places
- Every café, bakery and shop they visit, with progress and offers in one list.
- Progress they can see
- “5 of 6” beats a crumpled card at the bottom of a bag.
- No surprises
- Change a reward or an expiry date and the people it affects get a note saying exactly what changed.
Behind Ficus
A side project, taken seriously.
Ficus is a beta, designed and built end to end by one person: the iPhone app, the dashboard and everything in between. I started it to sharpen my craft on a product with real moving parts, not a tutorial.
It could have been another to-do app for the portfolio. I'd rather build something a real café could put on its counter tomorrow morning: stamps that live in a phone instead of a wallet, offers that reach the people who actually come back, and numbers that show whether any of it works.
Because it's a beta, expect a few rough edges, and please tell me when you hit one. Bugs, ideas, or a shop that wants to try it for real: support@astrall.app.
Samuel Adorni
Designer and developer of Ficus
Live demo
Try both sides. No sign‑up.
Leave your email and get a café owner's account and a regular customer's account, already halfway through a story. The logins show up here and in your inbox. After two hours both are wiped, so feel free to break things.
- 1
Open the dashboard
Go to Leaves and open the QR of “Free espresso”.
- 2
Scan it as Alex
Sign into the app with the customer account and scan it. 5 of 6 becomes a reward.
- 3
Redeem it
Show the reward in the app and scan it from the dashboard’s Scanner.
What you get
- B
Luna Café, a business account
Four Leaves, nine customers, a month of scans, one live campaign.
- C
Alex, one of its regulars
One scan away from a free espresso, with a pastry waiting to be redeemed.
Questions
Good to know.
Is Ficus free?
Yes, for as long as it's in beta. If that ever changes, you'll hear about it well in advance.
Can I use it for my actual business?
Yes. Create an account with your own email and it's yours. Demo accounts live separately and reset every two hours.
Do my customers need an app?
Yes, the iPhone app is how they scan and collect. It's free on the App Store, and the Android app is coming soon.
Is my customers' data safe?
Each business only sees its own customers, and each customer only their own places.