The retention engine for indie cafés

Pack your morning rush.
Sell out every bean drop.
Fill every seasonal launch.

Regulr connects to your café POS, captures walk-ins onto your list, and runs personalized marketing on autopilot. The result is customers who come back more often, spend more per ticket, fill your seasonal launches and bean drops, and leave more 5-star reviews.

1:1personalized to every customer
100%automated, zero manual work
15 minto set up

The problem

Your regulars love you.
Then their habits change.

Not because the cortado got worse. Because they're working from home twice a week now, a new shop opened on their walk, and nobody reminded them you're still here. The data is brutal:

65–75%

of first-time café visitors don't return within 30 days

5%

retention lift can boost a café's profits up to 95%

$0

what the average indie café spends on retention marketing today

But there's a deeper problem

The channels you've always
used are decaying.

Every year, the channels you rely on cost more and reach less. Email opens are sliding. Instagram organic reach has collapsed. SMS carriers filter aggressively and customers opt out. Then there are wallet passes.

Email

21%

avg open rate

Down ~2% per year, more inbox tabs every cycle

Instagram

~1.5%

organic reach

Cratered from 4–7% five years ago

SMS

$0.015

per message + rising

Carrier filtering, A2P fees, opt-out fatigue

Wallet Push

$0.00

per message

100% delivery. No filter. No opt-out wear.

Wallet passes are the same tech behind an airline boarding pass or a Starbucks card. Lives in Apple or Google Wallet, sends push notifications straight to the lock screen. No spam folder, no app to install. Downloads instantly.

The answer

How Regulr works in 4 steps.

01

Capture

Walk-ins into known customers

02

Retain

Personalized 1:1 messages

03

Deliver

Wallet push, free and instant

04

Grow

Google and Yelp reviews

Step 1: Capture

Turn every cup into a
known regular.

QR on the cup sleeve. NFC at the register. A 15-second branded quiz “drip or espresso?”. A free drink on their next visit, early access to seasonal menus, or a seat at the next cupping. Phone captured, wallet pass on their phone, before they take the first sip.

Scan the cup sleeve

QR on the sleeve, NFC at the register

Quick quiz

Drip or espresso? 15 seconds

Personalized offer

Free drink, bean drop access, cupping seat

Share phone

One field, auto-formatted

Wallet Pass

Apple or Google Wallet, instant

15–28% of café walk-ins convert to known customers

Step 2: Retain

POS data in.
Personalized marketing out.

Regulr reads your Toast, Square, Clover, or Lightspeed data, learns who drinks what, and writes messages in your café's voice. The cortado crowd hears about the new Yirgacheffe. The drip drinkers get the seasonal cold brew launch. No batch blasts, no generic punch-card spam.

Learns each customer's drink preference and visit cadence

Writes in your voice, not generic loyalty templates

Picks the right channel, time, and drink for each person

Plugs into Toast, Square, Clover, and Lightspeed

S

Sam

Hum & Hive Coffee · Cortado regular

Sam — the new Ethiopia Yirgacheffe just landed. Natural process, jasmine and stone fruit. I’ll pull one for you when you swing by.

Bean drop: matches single-origin natural process preference, 4 days since last visit

M

Mia

Hum & Hive Coffee · Drip drinker

Mia, summer cold brew launches Friday 7am. First cup’s on us. Should hit right before your usual Friday meeting.

Cold-brew launch + Friday cadence (visited last 4 Fridays)

J

Jordan

Hum & Hive Coffee · Regular fading

Jordan, it’s been 2 weeks. The oat milk cortado you order — still your move? We just switched milk suppliers, you’d love the texture.

Win-back: regular customer, last visit 14d ago, oat milk cortado preference

3 customers, 3 totally different messages, all written by Regulr from POS data

Your cockpit

Your dashboard runs the café.
You approve or set to autopilot.

Walk in Monday. Here's what shipped over the weekend.

Sends that went out on autopilot. Drafts waiting for approval. What needs you next. You decide how hands-on you want to be.

app.regulr.ai/dashboard/today
Search⌘K

Today

Good morning, Marcus

5 things shipped while you were closed · 8 need a look

Visits this week

847

+12%

Attributed revenue

$2,847

+34%

At-risk customers

12

−3

New regulars

46

+8

Next 5 actions

Auto-prioritized by Regulr
Win-back

12 at-risk customers ready to message

Sarah K. + 11 others · last visit 42d avg · 73% historical recapture in your vertical

Approve

8 messages need a look before they send at 4pm

Daily queue · SMS (3), RCS (4), wallet push (1) · all in brand voice

Reward

Marcus Reyes just hit 25 visits · free entrée unlocked

Auto-sent at 6:14am · he tapped 'claim' from the wallet push

Just now in your business

2mElena T. tapped redeem on her wallet pass · $14.80 spent · attributed
18mNew regular: Jordan W., 3rd visit this week · auto-segmented to Active
1hDaily strategy refresh: Engine added 4 win-back targets for this evening
HH

HUM & HIVE COFFEE

DENVER · CO

REGULAR

Member

Sam Chen

Member since Mar '24

Year

162visits

Drink

Cortado

This week

Free pour-over on us

Stop in by Sun

HH · 0247 · SC

Built in your colors. Lives on every customer's phone. Updates push in real time.

Lock screen

Live

CB

Hum & Hive Coffee

now

Sam, the new Ethiopia Yirgacheffe just landed. Natural process, jasmine and stone fruit. Cupping at 3pm if you want first taste.

A new push every time something matters. Free, instant, no spam folder.

Step 3: Deliver

Always on their phone.
Never in their spam.

Every customer you capture gets a branded wallet pass for your café. Your colors, your logo, your voice. It installs in Apple or Google Wallet, the apps already on every phone, no download required. Push notifications are free, instant, and land right on the lock screen. Right now, zero other indie cafés can do this. That's the cheat code.

$0.00

per push

vs $0.015 SMS

96%

keep their pass

at 30 days

100%

deliverability

no spam filters

Updates in real time

Your brand, your voice

iPhone + Android

No app to install

Try it now.

Add a sample wallet pass and get 4 real push notifications in under 45 seconds. Win-back, frequency, smart attach, event fill. The same 4 tactics Regulr runs for coffee shops.

Open the demo

Works on iPhone. Apple Wallet only for now.

Step 4: Grow

Turn great pours
into Google 5-stars and Yelp top picks.

Google is where new customers find you. Yelp is where the travel crowd lands. Most cafés leave both to luck. After a good visit, Regulr identifies happy customers from POS signals (repeat visit, bigger ticket, no comp) and sends a one-tap review request.

The right channel, sent at the exact right moment, while the espresso's still on their lip.

Without Regulr

2–3

reviews/month

With Regulr

15–25

reviews/month

Higher Google rank pulls in the morning commute crowd

1 extra star on Yelp drives 5–9% more revenue (Harvard Business School)

Google reviews are the #1 thing visitors check before walking in

POS confirms a visit

Drink ordered, drink poured. We know they were there.

Regulr scores satisfaction

Repeat customer? Bigger ticket? No comp? Strong signal.

Timed nudge

Sent at the exact right moment, while the experience is fresh

One tap to post

Direct link to Google, Yelp, Tripadvisor

2 hours ago

Their natural Yirgacheffe is the brightest cup I've had in Denver. Jasmine, stone fruit, almost zero bitterness. New favorite local.

Sam C. · Google · 5

5 hours ago

Best cortado in town. The barista actually knows my name. Cozy spot for working remote on a Friday morning. Will be back tomorrow.

Mia R. · Yelp · 5

Loyalty, your way

Build a loyalty program. Or don't.
Either way, it just works.

Some cafés want a points engine. Some have a punch card they love. Some just want the wallet pass to do its job. Regulr supports all three. Set up in minutes, no rewrites.

New

Build a new program

Points per visit, drink credits, birthday drinks, anniversary milestones. Pick a template, tweak it in the dashboard, go live the same day. No code, no rebuild.

Bring your own

Integrate what you already have

Already running Toast Loyalty, Square Loyalty, or a homegrown punch card? Regulr layers on top. Your rules and rewards, our reach and intelligence.

Lightweight

Skip the program entirely

Just want to capture customers and push messages? The wallet pass works without points. Add a program later when you're ready, or never.

Whichever path you pick, your customers get the same branded wallet pass. The program is just the rules on top.

Events

Fill events
on autopilot.

Indie cafés live on the event calendar. Bean drops, seasonal launches, cuppings, latte art throwdowns, brewing classes, guest roaster takeovers. Regulr automatically pulls new events from your website, learns who cares about each, and pushes the right invite at the right time. The room fills before the doors open.

Bean drops & new arrivals

Push to every customer whose taste profile matches the new lot. Pre-tap holds for regulars. First-come, first-poured. The micro-lot sells out before noon, but to your list.

Seasonal launches

Auto-invite every customer who hit the shop in the last 12 months. Cold brew menu, fall menu, holiday drinks. The line forms before the doors open.

Guest roaster takeovers

Guest roaster in town? Capture their fans as your own. The quiz routes them to whatever roast they prefer. They leave with your pass on their phone.

Weekly rhythm

Cupping Wednesday, latte art Friday, brewing class Saturday. Push to the regulars who liked it last time. Every recurring night becomes a known-customer fill.

Results

The pour speaks for itself.

Based on retention benchmarks across indie cafés and small coffee chains.

+0%

Visit Frequency

Regulars come back more often

+0%

Ticket Size

Extra pastry, second drink

0x

Customer LTV

Every regular worth more over time

+0%

Google / Yelp reviews

More ratings every month

Built to compound

Every month, your list gets bigger.
Every push, the engine gets smarter.

Other marketing fades the day you stop paying. Regulr does the opposite. Every walk-in captured, every push opened, every redemption tracked, it all stacks. Your list never degrades. The engine never stops learning.

Month 1

0

First captures

Month 6

0

Cadence is set

Month 12

0

Engine is dialed

Month 24

0

Compounding

Illustrative growth for a café capturing 300–500 walk-ins a month at typical specialty volume.

Your list never degrades

Wallet passes have 96% retention at 30 days. Customers don't unsubscribe, the inbox doesn't bury them, the carrier doesn't filter them. Every walk-in you capture stays captured.

Every push makes it smarter

Every send teaches the engine who responds to what. Cortado regulars, drip drinkers, morning rush, afternoon laptop crowd. Month 12 messaging beats month 1 by a mile, no work from you.

Your moat compounds

Twelve months of capture, segmentation, and refinement is a moat no new café down the street can match by opening with a clean Instagram. The longer you run, the harder you are to catch.

Pricing

Run a 2-month pilot.

We're onboarding pilot cafés only right now. Everything included, no per-message fees, founder-led setup.

2-Month Café Pilot

$499total

60 days, everything included, cancel anytime

Unlimited Regulr campaigns

Unlimited wallet push notifications

QR / NFC capture system + custom quiz

Regulars wallet pass, your brand

POS integration (Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed)

Coffee-native voice (drink, roast, cadence)

Google & Yelp review engine

Founder-led onboarding

Apply for a Pilot

Pilot program. Reviewed within 48 hours.

Inside the pilot

60 days of Regulr, fully set up

Founder-led onboarding, no handoffs

Weekly check-ins on what's working

Built around your next seasonal launch

How it works

01

Apply. Reply to an email, 2 minutes.

02

Coffee with the founder. 20-minute fit call.

03

Launch. We build your setup and run it for 60 days.

FAQ

Coffee shop questions.

Stop losing the regulars
you already poured for.

Set up in 15 minutes. First captured customers within a week.
No contract. No per-message fees. Just more regulars at the counter.