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AI personalization · JourneysWally is the first wallet loyalty platform with a built-in personalization agent. It reads the visits on your stamp or points card, plans the journeys, sends each offer at that customer’s usual hour in Apple and Google Wallet, and reports the lift every Monday. You set the guardrails. It does the work.
I looked at Bean & Leaf over the last year. Only 47% of first-timers come back for a second visit, which is where you lose most people. 128 customers are drifting right now.What should I work on first?
Here’s the plan, each with the reason it exists:
Live. First offers go out Tuesday at each customer’s usual hour. 20 customers are in the holdout and will never know. I’ll report on Monday.
Sample programme figures — illustrative, not a customer result
Most digital loyalty programs stop at the stamp. The card fills, the reward redeems, and every customer gets the same message on the same day, whether they were in yesterday or have not been back since June. Personalization at this level has only been possible for brands with a data team. The agent does that job for a single café.
The agent works from the visits already recorded on your stamp card or points card. It needs no integration with your till and no customer data beyond what the pass itself records.
Visits in the last year, usual gap between visits, usual day and hour, stamps to go, whether earlier offers brought them back, and a churn risk score per customer. Refreshed every night.
You pick a goal and how generous it may be. The agent proposes the journeys, each with the number behind it: how many customers qualify today, the expected lift, the cost in rewards.
One offer per customer a week, at most four a month, sent between 07:00 and 21:00, nothing to customers who are on track, one in ten held out. Delivered as a pass update on the lock screen.
Who came back, with and without the offer. What the agent changed on its own, each one undoable. The two things it would like your yes on. Nothing else to check.
Every journey is a trigger, an offer and a reason, run per customer. These are the ones the agent proposes most often for a café or salon card; you can edit any of them by hand or add your own.
No dashboard to decode. The agent tells you who came back, what it changed on its own, and the two things it would like your yes on. Each decision shows the numbers behind it, and anything it did alone can be undone with one tap.
The guardrails are always on: one offer per customer a week, at most four a month, sends only in your window, nothing to customers who are on track, opted-out customers never included. On top of that, six permissions you switch on or off. Anything not switched on waits for your yes.
Open any customer and you see the signals the decision was made from, the guardrails it passed, which arm of the holdout they fell in, and why it went out when it did. When a customer asks at the counter why they got an offer, your team can answer.
Two taps on their pass page, no typing: when they usually drop by, and what would make a treat feel like theirs. The agent stops guessing. They can switch personalized offers off and keep their stamps, see exactly what the card uses, and download or delete their data.
Hi Maya. This card can send you a treat at the right moment, based only on your visits here.
Personalization only matters if the customers who got the offer came back more than the customers who did not. Every journey is measured that way from the first send.
Three ways to get a customer back. Only one of them does the thinking and the measuring for you, and lands on the pass the customer already carries.
| Blast campaigns | Marketing automation suites | Wally AI personalization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who gets the offer | Everyone on the list | Segments you define and maintain | Each customer, based on their own visits; on-track customers get nothing |
| When it is sent | The day you send it | A schedule you build | At that customer’s usual hour, inside your window |
| Who writes the strategy | You | You, on a workflow canvas | The agent proposes it with the numbers; you approve |
| How you know it worked | Open and click rates | Conversion goals you set up | Lift against a holdout on every journey, reported weekly |
| Where it lands | Inbox or SMS | Inbox, SMS, app push | Lock screen via the Apple or Google Wallet pass; no app, no inbox |
| Data needed | A list | A CRM and integrations | Only what the pass records; no till integration required |
Every stamp is a timestamped visit on the customer’s own card. Wally has the visit history and the delivery channel in one place, which is what makes per-customer journeys possible without a data team.
A pass update reaches the lock screen of every customer who added the card. The agent decides who, when and what; wallet push carries it.
Because the holdout is built into every journey, the agent learns from its own results and reports them. Retention numbers stop being a guess: see the retention statistics that make the case.
Morning regulars, lunch crowds and the second-visit gap. The agent times each offer to the customer’s own routine.
Explore restaurantsA six-week cadence is easy to drift from. The win-back fires when a client is past their own gap, not a calendar.
Explore salonsMembers who stop coming rarely cancel the same month. Catching the first missed week is where retention is won.
Explore wellnessAI personalization means each customer gets offers chosen, timed and worded for them, rather than the same campaign going to everyone. In Wally the personalization agent reads the visits recorded on a customer's wallet pass, works out their usual gap between visits and their usual hour, and runs a journey for them: a second-visit treat the day after a first visit, a win-back when they drift past their own cadence, a nudge when they are one stamp from a reward. The offer lands on the lock screen through Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, with no app to install.
No. The agent does the analysis and the planning. You answer two questions in a short conversation: what to work on first, and how generous it may be per customer. It proposes the journeys with the reason for each, you approve, and they go live. There are no segments to define, no workflow canvases to build, and no reports to decode. Every Monday you get one message: who came back, with and without the offer, and what the agent changed.
Only what the card itself records: when the customer visited with that card, how often, stamps and rewards on the card, and whether an earlier offer brought them back. It never uses the customer's location between visits, and nothing from other apps or shops. Customers see exactly this list on their preference page, can switch personalized offers off while keeping their stamps, and can download or delete their data.
Only if you let it. By default the agent may move send times inside your window, pause a journey that is not bringing people back, and rewrite a message in your card's voice with the same facts. Changing what a customer is given, changing a reward's expiry, adding a journey or changing the holdout always waits for your yes in the Monday report. Each permission is a toggle you control, and any change the agent makes alone can be undone.
Every journey keeps a holdout: by default one customer in ten who qualifies is kept as a control and gets nothing. Lift is the difference between the return rate of the customers who received the offer and the return rate of the holdout, measured over the same 14 days. If a journey has not beaten its holdout after enough sends, the agent pauses it and tells you. There is no vanity reporting, because the customers who would have come back anyway are counted on both sides.
A journey is a trigger, an offer and a reason, run per customer. The trigger is an event on the card: a first visit, a lapse past the customer's usual gap, a ninth stamp, a birthday. The offer is a reward, stamps, or a message only. The agent sends it at that customer's usual hour inside the window you set, and it is delivered as a pass update that appears on the lock screen. Each journey also has its own guardrails: one offer per customer a week, nothing to customers who are coming anyway, and the holdout.
Yes. The journeys run on the same Wally pass whichever wallet the customer added it to. Apple Wallet shows the update on the lock screen and on the pass; Google Wallet raises a notification and updates the pass. The customer never installs anything, and your staff keep stamping with Wally Scan or an NFC reader as before.
Marketing automation suites give you a canvas and leave the strategy, the segments, the copy and the measurement to you, and they usually reach customers by email or SMS. Wally's agent brings the strategy: it reads your card, proposes the plan with the numbers behind it, runs it inside your guardrails, measures lift against a holdout and reports in plain language. Delivery is the wallet pass the customer already carries, so there is no inbox to compete in and nothing to unsubscribe from except the journey itself.
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