Stamped built its name on reviews, and it's still good at that job. But if you installed it hoping for a genuinely capable loyalty program too, or you've watched the price climb every time your order volume crossed into the next bracket, you're not the only merchant looking around.
Stamped's Loyalty product doesn't even appear as an option until you're doing 5,000+ orders a month, and it starts at $299/month from there, on top of Reviews, billed separately. If you want loyalty and reviews (plus referrals, wishlist and Instagram UGC) built as one platform from day one, Growave, Yotpo, LoyaltyLion, Rivo and Okendo are the five worth a look.
Stamped started as a Shopify reviews app and has grown into three separate products sold together: Reviews, Loyalty, and a newer post-purchase automation tool called Repeat. Each is its own subscription and its own configuration, even when bundled.
The Loyalty product covers the basics of a points program: customers earn points on purchases and redeem them for discounts. VIP tiers let you set spending thresholds that unlock better rewards, and referrals are built in, so customers can earn points for bringing in friends through email, SMS, or social sharing. You can build a branded loyalty landing page and customize the on-site widget's colors and layout.
The Reviews product handles collection through post-purchase emails, on-site display widgets, and photo or video UGC, with syndication options to places like Google. On paper, between the two, Stamped covers most of what a growing Shopify store needs from a reviews-and-rewards stack.
Where it gets more complicated is how those two products actually behave once you're running them day to day, which is worth understanding before committing to either.
Stamped's own Shopify listing is straightforward about where Loyalty sits in the lineup: it's introduced as coming from the makers of their reviews app, built later as an add on to an established reviews product rather than designed alongside it from day one. That order shows up in how the two programs actually behave once you're running them.
Reviews starts at $23/month. Loyalty isn't available at all below 5,000 orders/month, and once you qualify, it starts at $299/month as its own subscription, not a bundled upgrade. For a store still finding its footing, that's a real gap to cross just to add points and rewards.
The two programs tend to stay separate in practice, not just on the pricing page. Reviews and loyalty run through different flows rather than one connected customer record, so a review doesn't naturally feed into points or tier status the way it would on a platform built around a single profile.
Once a program grows past the basics, reporting is frequently described as points totals and redemption counts, rather than the tier or cohort performance data you'd actually need to optimize a program.
The loyalty widget and account page rarely feel like a natural extension of the rest of the store, since customization options tend to end at basic branding rather than layout or flow.
None of this makes Stamped a bad reviews tool, and plenty of stores are perfectly happy running Reviews alone. It just means Loyalty was never the main event, and merchants who want the two built together from the start, on one customer record, with deeper reporting and more room to customize, tend to end up looking elsewhere.
Growave runs loyalty, reviews, referrals, wishlist and Instagram UGC on one shared customer profile - a review earns points, points unlock a tier, and the tier drives the next purchase, all against the same record. Entry pricing starts at $15/month for 500 orders, with Shopify POS Loyalty QR and Apple/Google Wallet support built in.
"Moved to Growave after being with Stamped for years but got fed up with increasing prices and decreasing levels of support. Growave has more functionality, is heaps cheaper and the service is excellent... and the wishlist app is a bonus!" - Hello Charlie, hellocharlie.com.au
Andiata, a Finnish womenswear brand, saw repeat purchases grow 19.2% in the six months after installing Growave - one of the few loyalty case studies with a genuine before-and-after figure rather than an engaged-customer comparison.
Yotpo pairs a reviews product with loyalty, referrals, SMS and email tools inside one account, so the disconnected-flow problem Stamped has doesn't show up here, review activity and loyalty status live on the same customer record. The tradeoff is scale: Yotpo is built and priced for larger, more established brands, and setup tends to involve more configuration than a smaller store wants to take on just to run a loyalty program.
LoyaltyLion is a loyalty specialist, not a bundled reviews-and-loyalty tool, and it shows in the depth: behavior-based rewards, detailed customer segmentation, and reward logic well past a simple points-per-dollar model. The same depth is the catch, getting real value out of it usually means someone on the team treating the program as an ongoing project, not a set-and-forget install.
Rivo is a newer, loyalty-first platform that has grown quickly, partly through its own content about well-known consumer loyalty programs like Target Circle and Sephora Beauty Insider. It's positioned as faster to launch and easier to customize than older, more configuration-heavy platforms, though that speed comes with a smaller footprint of advanced features than a platform like LoyaltyLion offers.
Okendo leans further into reviews and UGC than loyalty, with pricing that scales by order volume - roughly $199/month up to $499/month and higher at bigger volumes. Its loyalty product exists, but reviews are clearly the stronger half, similar in shape to Stamped's own reviews-first structure. It tends to answer "which reviews app" better than it answers "which loyalty platform."
The process isn't complicated, but it helps to know the shape of it before you start:
For the exact steps to export your data out of Stamped, our Help Center guide walks through the export process in detail.
"It was hard to find an app that had reviews and rewards until I discovered Growave. The customer support has been flawless and helped me through the process of stamped migration." - Verified Shopify merchant
If you're still under contract with Stamped, Growave's buyout program covers the remaining term so you're not paying for two platforms at once.
Stamped is a solid reviews tool that added loyalty later, and the pricing, reporting depth and customization all reflect that. If loyalty is the reason you're evaluating a switch, Growave, Yotpo, LoyaltyLion, Rivo and Okendo are the names worth putting side by side. Want deep segmentation and behavior-based rewards and have someone to run it? LoyaltyLion. Already all-in on Yotpo's other tools? Yotpo. Want loyalty and reviews built together from day one, on one customer profile, without a 5,000-order minimum to get started? That's where Growave fits.
No. Migrating your review history is part of onboarding, not something left behind.
Not with Growave. Unlike Stamped, which does not offer Loyalty at all below 5,000 orders per month, Growave's loyalty program is available from the entry plan.
Wishlist, Instagram UGC, and Apple and Google Wallet loyalty cards, plus one shared customer profile across all five programs instead of separate subscriptions.
Both. Onboarding covers review history, points balances and tier assignments together, so you're not left running two systems during the switch.
No, you can start on a monthly plan. If you're still under contract with Stamped, ask about the buyout program.
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