The app-store app your customers never have to download.
The Perkaria wallet card lives in the browser your customers already have. Your staff enrols them at the counter, a text brings them their card, and it sits on their home screen if they want it there. No download, no password, no account to create.
The visuals on this page are product illustrations, not screenshots — real screens from a live deployment are coming.
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Enrolment
Your staff signs them up — at the counter, in seconds
There is no QR code to hunt for on the table and no sign-up page to find. While the order rings through, staff taps New member on the tablet, takes a first name and a mobile number, and ticks the consent boxes with the customer standing right there. That is the whole enrolment.
- Run by staff on the counter tablet — the customer just gives a phone number
- Consent to texts is captured explicitly, in person, at the moment they join (CASL)
- Nothing to download, no account to create, no password to invent
- Big buttons, French interface, built to hold up during the rush
Delivery
A text brings them their card
Once staff has enrolled them, Perkaria texts a magic link. One tap opens their card in whatever browser their phone already has — already signed in, no password, ever. If they want it closer at hand, their phone offers Add to Home Screen and the card gets an icon like any other app. That step is optional; the card works either way.
- Magic link by text — nothing to remember, nothing to reset
- Opens in Safari, Chrome, whichever browser they already use
- Add to Home Screen is offered, never required
- Lost the text? A fresh link goes out — a link, not a password
What members see
The card holds everything they'd open an app for
Stamps and points, how far off the next reward is, their gift-card balance, and the QR code staff scans to find them at the counter. New stamps land right away marked pending — they're verified overnight against your sales export, so the card and your till always tell the same story.
- Stamp card, points balance, and the reward that's next
- Pending stamps shown separately until the nightly check clears them — never a number you have to walk back
- Gift-card balance on the same card — and gift cards never expire, as Québec law requires
- A QR member card for the counter scan
- French or English, their choice, on every screen
Why no-app wins here
The install step is where a counter app dies
A native app asks a customer to step out of the line, find your app among a hundred others, download it on café Wi-Fi, and create an account — all to save a little on a $6 tart. Most won't. The wallet card asks for a phone number and a tap on a text you already sent. Same card, minus the reason to say no.
- Sign-up finishes at the counter instead of “I'll download it later”
- No app-store review sitting between you and a fix
- One card for any modern phone — no iOS build, no Android build
- Updates arrive on the next page load; nobody is stuck on last year's version
Honest comparison
Branded native app vs Perkaria wallet card
Both have their place. Here are the real differences — including the ones that don't favour us.
| What we're comparing | Branded native app | Perkaria wallet card |
|---|---|---|
| Getting it onto the phone | Search the store, download, create an account, allow notifications | Staff enrols them at the counter; a text link opens the card. Add to Home Screen optional. |
| Where it runs | An iOS build and an Android build, submitted and maintained separately | One URL, in any modern mobile browser |
| Time to launch | Months: design, build, store review | Days: it's configured, not built |
| What it costs | Build cost up front, then maintenance for every OS release, plus store fees | A monthly subscription — see pricing |
| Shipping a change | New build → store review → each customer has to update | Live on the next page load |
| Push notifications | Real push — for the share of customers who install AND allow it | Texts and email, with consent, quiet hours and a 2-per-week cap enforced |
| Offline use | Can work offline once installed | Needs a connection to load the card |
Where a native app genuinely wins: when the app is the product — order-ahead, delivery, a chain with a marketing team behind it. For one counter whose goal is a stamp card that fills up, the download is the whole obstacle, and the wallet card removes it.
Straight answers
Questions we get about the card
Is this a real app, or just a web page?
It's a web app — a page built to behave like an app. It opens from a text link, it can sit on the home screen with your icon and open full-screen, and it remembers the member. What it never asks for is a trip to the App Store.
Can customers sign themselves up from a QR code on the table?
No, and that's deliberate. Enrolment is a staff action on the counter tablet: it takes seconds, consent gets collected in person instead of through a box someone tapped past, and it keeps junk numbers out of your list. The member gets their own card by text right after.
What if they get a new phone or clear their browser?
They ask for a new link by text and they're back in — the card lives on our servers, not on the phone. Nothing is lost: stamps, points and gift-card balance are attached to the account, not the device.
Keep reading
Where the card fits in
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