How Lekka is built.
The structural choices, and why they matter for South African small businesses.
No app downloads. No POS partnerships. No giving away margin on every sale. No contracts.
Stamps, not cashback.
Stamps protect your margin. Cashback gives a percentage of every sale away on every purchase, including from customers who would have come back anyway. Stamp cards only cost you when a reward is actually redeemed. For a coffee shop, a salon, or a bakery running on tight margins, that's the difference between a loyalty programme that pays for itself and one that doesn't.
Read the scienceFlat-priced, not per-transaction.
Lekka is a flat monthly subscription. Your plan is set by how many regulars you have, and you know the price up front. Some platforms charge a fee on every loyalty event instead, so the more stamps your customers collect, the more it costs. That structure is a tax on success: the harder your programme works, the bigger the bill. Lekka doesn't meter your activity. A busy day costs you nothing extra.
Customers scan us, not the other way round.
Your customer scans your printed counter QR with their own phone. You don't reach for a scanner. You don't ask for their phone. You don't slow down the till. It's faster, simpler, and means your staff aren't doing customer-side work.
We work at every till.
Cash. EFT. SnapScan. Card. Mobile money. Whatever your customer pays with, they still earn their stamp. We don't require integrated payment terminals because we don't touch your payment system. Loyalty and payment are separate problems. We solved one of them properly.
A network, not a silo.
A customer who joins Lekka at one vendor can discover and use Lekka at any other. Every vendor benefits from every other vendor. That's network effect, and it's how loyalty becomes more valuable the more vendors join. Single-vendor loyalty apps don't do this. Each one is its own island.
Built and supported locally.
Lekka is built and supported in Cape Town. Not in Dublin, not in San Francisco, not in Stockholm. The product is shaped by South African small businesses, priced in rands, and backed by personal support. When you need help, you reach a real person who knows the product, not a call centre in another time zone.
We cite our sources.
When we tell you 77% of consumers are more likely to return to brands with loyalty programmes, we'll tell you that came from the Bond Loyalty Report 2024. When we tell you 82% of South Africans use loyalty programmes, that's from the Truth & BrandMapp Loyalty Landscape Whitepaper 2024/5. We don't make up percentages. If a stat isn't sourced, we don't claim it.
Built the honest way.
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No app downloads. No POS partnerships. No giving away margin on every sale. No contracts.