Antavo AI Loyalty Cloud vs. PAR Punchh

One specific scenario where Antavo proved to be well-suited was the activation of a challenge where customers earned bonus loyalty points if they used a specific gift card for a purchase on the website. This feature was implemented smoothly and effectively boosted customer engagement. On the other hand, a scenario where Antavo fell short was during an export of the entire customer database (2.5 million users), aggregated by levels (4 levels) with details of points that had expired over the course of the year. The extraction process for these data, even after months, was never completed.

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The use of Punchh is best left to organizations that have a real need for loyalty tracking and consumer insights gained from loyalty programs. I would say that it would not make much sense to invest in this platform if you are business with less than 20 stores, it is too robust and too hard to learn.

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• Customer Service
• Agile
• API connections

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• Reward-based App material. Punchh is great platform for reward tracking and fulfillment. I have not found one that does a better job at customer loyalty.

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• Can't access through mobile devices.
• Sometimes uploading files doesn't work.
• Regional languages are not supported in app.

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• Look carefully into the integrations, find out exactly what is possible. We launched when we had Monkey Media as our online ordering tool, although it was integrated, we ended up having to move to Olo just because it was such a stronger integration.
• I would re-think having Facebook as an option to allow registration and signup to our app. This was recommended by Punchh, but we ended up getting so many out of date email addresses in our system that were associated with the Facebook account.
• One thing we wanted to launch with was a gift card integration, but due to Punchh not being PCI compliant, and due to other technological limitations, that's not something we've been able to bring into our loyalty app, which would be nice to have.

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First loyalty platform for me personally and has been easy and great to pick up. The training academy is excellent and the customer service has been great

Customer support is not well organised and you can make many efforts to get the resolution. For email or phone support you have to have the patience to deal with the support team, also if you submit a query the responding time is usually high.

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The customer success people are not as invested as it seems they should be in their clients' business, at least not for the amount of money the platform costs. I am always looking for best practices to be provided or at least discussed with my AM, and she doesn't ever seem to care about what others are doing in my industry.

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The integration between Antavo and Bloomreach is out of the box.

We were looking for a partner who would help us get a loyalty program and a mobile app launched quickly, Punchh delivered our app on-time, the cost was very competitive and Punchh was being used by similarly sized brands in the restaurant industry. The integrations were in place and Punchh offered the Product functionality and performance we were looking for.

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• Increased engagement with existing loyalty users
• Brought new users
• Increased ROI

• Helped us grow our online ordering channel.
• Allowed us to message guests in different ways—push notification, in-app messaging
• Helped us to retain customers and make guests more loyal to our brand.

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