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Place an order

Ways to Earn give customers opportunities to collect stamps by completing specific activities within your rewards program. You can decide which actions are available and define the number of stamps awarded for each one. Once an earning method has been created, it can be modified or updated whenever needed. This document will This is where you decide the methods you’d like to enable for your customers to earn stamps through. Click Add Way To Earn to see the options. In the pop up, you will see the list of ways your customers can earn stamps. Click Add to begin the setup process for each. Let’s go through these one by one. Place an order This is the default reward when using Appy Stamp and this should be added by default when completing the Onboarding process. You can use this to edit how the reward works, or to re-add it if you have deleted it. There are two main options for you to pick from when rewarding customers for placing an order. Under Earning Type, you can choose either Fixed Amount of Stamps or Incremental Amount of Stamps. There is also an option to limit how many times a customer can reward for this activity. Fixed Amount of Stamps: Our recommended option will give your customers a fixed amount of stamps for each order they place, and you can select your preferred number here under Earning Value. The Status panel on the right of the page shows whether this reward is active or disabled, and underneath confirms the setup you have selected on the left. The custom ucon panel allows you to upload a custom image that will show in the Widget that your customers will see in relation to the Place an Order reward. You can use our provided default icon here, or upload your own. Our recommended image size is 90 x 90 pixels, and you can upload in the JPEG, PNG and SVG formats. Incremental Amount of Stamps: If you’d like to reward your customers based on the amount they spend, choose this option to determine how many stamps they earn against your chosen currency value. Limit how many stamps are allowed: This is where you can limit how many times the Place an Order activity can be used within certain periods of time. Click the button and additional options will appear. You can choose how many times a customer can purchase the product and receive a stamp, as well as how long the limit lasts—whether it’s for a lifetime, a month, or a number of days. Minimum spend This is where you can set a minimum order amount so that customers must spend a certain amount to receive order stamps. Note: If a customer’s order meets the minimum spend threshold and they later request a partial refund, and the order total after the refund falls below the minimum spend requirement, any stamps that were awarded will be removed. Exclusion rules This is a way you can add products/collections that you want to be excluded from gaining stamps whilst placing an order. You simply click choose collection and a modal pops up from where you can select a Product/collection to be excluded. For more detail on exclusion rules please click here Important: If you are using Shopify Smart collections then you need to manually sync the collection after making changes in Shopify. Just hit save to do so. Learn why is this important? Customer targeting This is where you can set up your targeting feature. so customers with certain tags will only have access to this bonus stamp reward. To learn more about customer targeting tags click here Once you have set up click save and you are all set.

Last updated on Jul 27, 2026

Purchase a Bonus Product activity

Product stamp bonuses are a great way to target specific products and reward customers who purchase these specific products. To set up a product stamp bonus, Click Add Way To Earn and select Product stamp bonus Simply input how many stamps you would like to award each time someone buys a product. You can also limit how many times a customer can purchase the product. Product bonus selection This is where you select the product to include in the bonus stamp activity. Click on 'Choose products,' and a modal will appear You can then search for the products you would like to add and then click select product. If successful the box will close and the product will appear in the tab like the example below. You will also now have 2 allocation methods available. Across all products – This is where the bonus amount is shared across the whole collection as one. For example, X amount of stamps awarded across the whole of their purchases from the collection. Each product individually – This is where each product they purchase from the collection will get awarded so X stamps per product within their order. Once set up correctly any customer that purchases the product that you have assigned to the product bonus activity will receive their standard place an order stamp and the product bonus stamp. It’s now even easier to promote your bonus product activity with the addition to our Beacons feature, where you can set up a beacon to appear to anyone who is either new to your store or has not signed up yet. Learn more about beacons and how to set them up

Last updated on Jul 30, 2026

Social media activities

Customers can be rewarded for interacting with your brand through various social media channels and it's a great way to reward them outside of your store. The article will help you understand the different social media activities you can set up for your customers and how they will engage them through your widget. How to set up your social media activities You have multiple options to choose from, covering major social media platforms, to allow your customers to earn stamps by following a link. To set this up, click “Add Way to Earn” and choose from the following social media options: - Like a Facebook page - Share a Facebook post - Follow a X (Twitter) account - Share a X (Twitter) post - Follow a Instagram account - Follow a TikTok account Each option works by adding a URL and specifying the number of stamps you want to award. Once you’ve added the URL of your social media page, click “Save.” Whenever a customer clicks on the activity in the widget, they will be awarded the stamps. They will only be able to activate the activity once to prevent playing the system to gain more stamps from the one action. Please note: Currently, we are unable to verify whether a customer has actually followed or liked a specific post. Therefore, this system relies on trust when awarding stamps How customers will earn stamps Appy Stamp will give the stamps to your customers when they click on the activity within the widget that is on your store.. once the pop up with the link opens the activity in the widget will change to claimed and will no longer be clickable. At the moment due to limitations with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok they don’t allow third parties to access their data. So we are unable to confirm if a customer has taken that action specifically. This means when they click on the button to like a page, follow a Twitter account etc we have to use an honour system to award them the stamps. For this reason, it is a good idea to set up rate limiting for the actions that are repeatable like sharing a post. This stops the social media actions from being abused. For any action that is one-time such as liking a page or following an account, these are limited to once per customer, per lifetime so no rate limit needs to be set up by you as we’ve done this already.

Last updated on Jul 27, 2026

Recharge subscription activity

The Recharge Subscription Activity allows you to reward customers for placing subscription orders through Recharge, a popular subscription platform for Shopify stores. This integration enables you to offer stamps specifically for subscription purchases, encouraging customer loyalty and repeat business. How Does It Work with Shopify and Recharge? Recharge manages subscription orders on your Shopify store. When a customer places a subscription order via Recharge, the integration with Appy Stamp tracks this purchase and awards the configured number of stamps to the customer’s loyalty account. This means you can create targeted promotions such as: - Awarding double stamps for subscription orders - Offering stamps exclusively for subscription purchases - Differentiating rewards between one-time purchases and subscriptions The integration ensures that subscription purchases are correctly identified and rewarded without affecting regular orders. How to Set Up a Recharge Subscription Activity Follow these steps to set up the Recharge subscription activity in your Appy Stamp dashboard: 1. Connect Recharge to Appy Stamp Ensure your Recharge account is connected to your Shopify store and integrated with Appy Stamp. You can learn how to set up the ReCharge integration click here 2. In your Appy Stamp dashboard, go to Program Settings > Ways to Earn. 3. Click on Place a Recharge order. 1. Configure Stamp Rewards Define how many stamps customers earn for each subscription order. You can set: - Fixed number of stamps or variable amount per subscription order. - Set whether you want to add a minimum spend requirement. - Choose a collection to exclude products from this activity. - Save Your Settings After configuring, click Save to activate the subscription activity. Tips for Using Recharge Subscription Activity - Promote subscription-specific rewards to encourage customers to subscribe rather than make one-time purchases. - Combine subscription activities with other earning methods to create a layered loyalty program. - Monitor subscription activity performance and adjust stamp values or conditions to maximise engagement. ReCharge integration click here

Last updated on Jul 30, 2026

Setting up product exclusions

Sometimes you may wish to not reward customers for purchasing certain products. This may be because they are low margin, already have another offer on them or might be a wholesale product. These are just some examples but there are plenty more reasons and we’ll show you how you can exclude them. Exclusion lists are for paid plans only. Add a collection as an exclusion list To exclude products you need to add a collection from Shopify into the order activity so that we know which products should be excluded. 1. Head to your stamp program and go to the Ways to earn section and click on edit for your order activity (You have have more than one and will need to do it for each of them). 1. From here you can go to the Exclusion Rules section and click on Choose collection and this will bring up a collection selector window. 1. Now select your collection that you wish to be the products that are excluded. We’ve set up one called Loyalty Excluded so that it is clear what the collection is for. 2. Choose the collection and hit Select collection 3. Now that your collection has been selected, you should see it as the selected collection in the excluded section like below. 1. Now just click save and we’ll use this collection to filter out orders that have these products. Sync collection You can also make sure that the App has correctly synchronised with the collections by clicking Sync Collection. It will then show how many products within the collection are currently synced next to the selected collection. You can also check via Spotify's collection to see how many products are in that collection. Product validity selection Product exclusion rules are different depending on what type of order activity mode you are using, Fixed or Variable. Read more below about how we choose if an order is valid or not. Fixed orders If you have selected to offer a set amount of stamps for an order, regardless of how much they’ve spent then we called this fixed rewards. Currently, if you have exclusion rules we will count an order as valid as long as one product in the order is valid. So if a order has a mix of excluded products and valid ones, we will treat that order as valid. Variable orders If you offer stamps based on the purchase value, we call this a variable order and will work out the order value based on the selections you’ve made in Global settings on what parts of the order are counted to the rewarded value. When you have product exclusions, we will add up all the parts to get the total rewarded value. We will then deduct the product price * quantity from that total. The only caveat to this approach, is that we take the total price of the product. So there can be a small difference depending on the taxes included in the product. Adding products to the collection automatically One of the simplest approaches to managing excluded products is by setting up an automated collection that looks for a specific tag. In our example, we set up the collection to add products with the tag “excluded” and this way we can manage it on a product by product basis. You can of course manage this in any number of ways but we find this one of the easiest. Syncing smart collections When using a smart collection in Shopify i.e. a collection that adds products automatically because of a tag or product type etc. These must be synced with our app manually, this is because of a limitation on Shopify’s end. With normal manual collections, we get notified via webhook when an update has been made but with smart collections we are not notified. We do check for collections every day, but if you make constant changes to your smart collection that is attached as an exclusion we might not have the most up to date products. How to sync a smart collection. When you save an activity with a excluded collection, we will grab the products from that collection at the moment in time. So just hit save (no need to make any updates) and we’ll resync your collection again. What about manual collections? If you have a manual collection in Shopify that controls your exclusions, then we will get the updates from Shopify via webhooks. So there is no need for you to do anything but if you do want to trigger an update you can just hit save like above.

Last updated on Jul 30, 2026