Glue’s platform runs on an AI system that automatically reaches out to the end user through the branded club app at the most convenient time for the customer to encourage them to ultimately revisit and interact with local businesses on a daily basis.

Glue’s system can gather and manage all the data local businesses need on their customers as well provide the option to integrate with leading POC, E-Commerce and Book-Keeping systems in the world.

The AI system encourages repeat business and customer loyalty, increase in sales, strengthens local brands, helps to nurture business- client relationships, provides solutions that stabilize and strengthen business-client communication and helps businesses to get to know their customers better.

Our Review Verdict

Glue is a smart customer loyalty program designed for small local businesses to improve customer retention and get more repeat purchases. The software is comprised of three main parts; a branded members club app, a desktop workspace, and a mobile admin app.

The users can engage customers with e-mail, SMS, surveys, referrals, a variety of promotions, gamification, cashback incentives and rewards. There can be a combination of self-managed and self-fulfilled rewards, supplied by you, the business, plus a vast library of digitally downloaded rewards from popular businesses, including Amazon and Visa.

Other features include mobile and web access, multi-location pooling, multiple rewards programs with automatic intelligent tier transitions, online ordering and gift card processing. Additionally, there is vast functionality for Customer Recognition, Employee Recognition and B2B relations.

Besides Customer Loyalty and Engagement, there are features that enable users to employ advanced marketing techniques such as Drip Marketing and Behavioral Marketing based on past purchase behaviors, including specific products purchased. Customers can be segmented effectively through the data collected on them. All of this can also be automated to cut out the manual labor.

The platform offers a diverse set of pricing plans that are suitable for businesses of all sizes. The company does not offer a free trial before the purchase. However, every prospective client may choose to see a live interactive demonstration, which typically takes 1 to 2 hours to complete.

The software is support on almost all types of devices including PC, Mac and handheld devices such as mobile phones or tablets. Customer-facing kiosks are also available.

Our Review Verdict

Preferred Patron can be a great addition to your marketing software suite if you’re looking for a comprehensive tool that covers a lot more than just Loyalty Marketing. Besides, the vast integrations it provides with different POS software makes it highly useful for independent merchants, chain stores, and franchises.

Annex Cloud focuses on building the customer base of businesses. It does so by boosting customer acquisition, increasing conversion rates, and improving customer retention. These three solutions are what helps Annex Cloud deliver great results to the businesses that trust them.

They offer marketing strategies that revolve around building customer advocacy, fostering customer engagement, utilizing content marketing, optimizing personalization and merchandising, and lastly, upgrading customer profiles by using a CRM system that gives businesses detailed insights about their customers and what they want. Annex Cloud gives incentives to customers for sharing products over social media. They also strengthen customer relationships by allowing customers to leave ratings and reviews. It also has a Q&A section for shoppers to ask product-related questions.

The software offers three main features. These are loyalty programs, referral marketing programs and User Generated Content. These programs offer incentives to repeat customers.

Annex a referral marketing cloud to grow its email and customer acquisition channels. The refer-a-friend scheme, referral marketing contest, and on-site and in-store contest are particularly useful for this.

Annex Cloud is integrated with some of the leading names in technology solutions, marketing services and eCommerce platforms, such as Oracle, Salesforce, Magento, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, MailChimp, Klaviyo, Hubspot, Google Analytics, Zendesk, etc.

Our Review Verdict

Annex can be a great tool to boost customer engagement and build meaningful relationships with them. Certainly, its strong functionalities enrich customer interactions, which in turn increases conversion positively. You can use Annex to improve your retention rates and increases customer lifetime value. All in all, it can be a great deal for your money if you’re able to use it the right way for your business.

It is a strategic approach to bridging the gap between the online and offline worlds, by means of loyalty programs. Antavo uses modern loyalty programs by updating and upgrading traditional loyalty programs. They created the Recognition Loyalty Program, which revolves around the following concepts: Engagement Incentives, Emotional Rewards, Value Focus, Data Science and Loyalty Mechanics.

Further, Antavo attracts and retains customers by giving small incentives. These incentives may be for transactions, social media activity, such as review and promotion. They can include surprise gifts through a tiered system and VIP club memberships.

Antavo is integrated with big names in technology innovations, such as MailChimp, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Oracle Bronto, Oracle Responsys, dotdigital, Emarsys, Pure 360, Listrak, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Exponea, Sailthru, Klaviyo, Magento, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Microsoft Dynamics 365 POS and many more. Certainly, this integration allows Antavo to easily reach every one of their clients’ customers.

Anatavo is available in the UK, Italy, France, Poland, USA, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Canada, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Romania, Hungary and Australia. They provide online customer support during business hours, from their team members located in the UK, USA, Italy, France, Poland and Hungary.

Our Review Verdict

Antavo provides a different, fun and unique experience for customers, which results in a stronger relationship between customers and brands. The way it builds and enriches customer relationships is really impressive. Consequently, we highly recommend businesses to use it to improve the loyalty of their customers.

Rewarding customers is the key feature of the software. It enables brands to give customer rewards such as points, VIP status and referral bonuses for social media sharing, product reviews, and similar product referrals. Smile.io uses these reward programs to make existing and potential customers to return and become repeat customers.

Smile.io is available in big app stores such as BigCommerce, Shopify, Shopify Plus, Wix and WooCommerce, and it is rated as one of the fastest-growing loyalty software companies today. Due to their affiliation with big names in the online shopping industry, Smile.io’s clients gain an edge over their competition.

Above all, Smile.io offers different plans for the different brand requirements, at a reasonable price. They offer five different plans suitable for startups, mid-size companies, and large businesses. They also offer a free trial which costs $49 per month and is way cheaper than some of its competitors in the business.

Our Review Verdict

The analytical and functional capabilities of Smile rank it way above its competitors and make it the ideal choice for businesses. In conclusion, if you need something effective to enrich customer experience and build lasting relationships, Smile should be the software of choice for you.

Magento, Facebook,  Shopify, MailChimp, WooCommerce, Pinterest, Oracle, Zendesk and Vend are some of the big company names that Yotpo is integrated with. All major eCommerce platforms trust Yotpo and use it to maximise results. Certainly,their widespread and strong affiliation in the online world promises their clients a high rate of success.

In addition, Yotpo works as a plug and play social review solution for eCommerce websites. Yotpo makes it easier for brands to identify, gather and manage data, emails and social media interactions. It collects the reviews and feedback users leave and prompts brand owners to take action based on them. They can give rewards, such as coupons and other gifts to encourage these reviewers to provide authentic feedback.

Yotpo is based in Israel and has been in the eCommerce marketing industry since 2010. It has been a part of the digital marketing strategies of brands like Steve Madden, GoPro, Everlast and Gymshark.

Our Review Verdict

Yotpo is the software of choice of top eCommerce businesses to manage their customer loyalty programs. If you are in the same business and are looking for something similar, you should definitely give Yotpo a shot. We guarantee that you will not be disappointed.