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Looking for a Bubblehouse alternative?
The main reasons businesses look for a Bubblehouse alternative are enrolment friction at a busy counter, missing language or regional support, and needing a card mechanic their current platform does not offer. If none of those apply to you, switching is rarely worth the cost of re-enrolling your existing customers.
When you should stay with Bubblehouse
If your programme is working, stay. Switching costs you re-enrolment of your entire customer base, and that cost is almost always underestimated. Bubblehouse is a capable product, and these are real reasons to keep it:
- You sell online, or online is a meaningful share of your revenue
- You want tiers, paid memberships or gamified earning
- You run Shopify, WooCommerce or a subscription product
- You have the volume to make tiers meaningful, thousands of customers, not hundreds
When an alternative makes sense
The reasons to move are operational rather than cosmetic:
- Your business is a shop, café, salon or clinic with customers at a counter
- You have hundreds of customers rather than thousands
- You want one mechanic a part-time staff member can explain in a sentence
- You want to see the price and start without a sales conversation
What switching costs
Your existing customers have to be re-enrolled. Wallet cards are signed with a certificate belonging to the platform that issued them and cannot be transferred to another provider. This is a property of how Apple and Google secure cards, not a restriction any vendor chose.
Plan for a transition period where you run both systems, enrol new customers on the new one, and migrate regulars as they come in. For most independent businesses that covers the majority of active customers in six to eight weeks.
How Loonine differs
These two products are aimed at different businesses and the conclusion is that most readers of this page should pick one and stop considering the other. Bubblehouse is for ecommerce and DTC brands: points, tiered and paid memberships, referrals, gamified earning, subscription rewards, and integrations with Shopify Plus, Recharge and WooCommerce. Loonine is for a business with a door and a till, running one legible mechanic. Loonine deliberately does not do tiers or gamification and will not be adding them.
- 4 Loonine stronger
- 5 Bubblehouse stronger
- 1 About even
See the full feature-by-feature comparison with Bubblehouse · How to switch without losing your customers.
Start in the Loonine app
Loonine runs from the business app on iPhone and Android. Download it, design your card, and start your first paid month free.