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How Toast Loyalty Works
Toast's Loyalty program allows guests to easily enroll, earn, and redeem rewards at your restaurant.
Guests can sign up with your Loyalty program in many ways -- when paying at the register, signing the check at their table, placing an online order, or even through the Local by Toast app. Once signed up, guests earn points with every purchase or visit made at your restaurant. These points are recorded through a phone number, email address, or credit card linked to their loyalty account. There is no maximum number of points a guest can earn on a transaction, nor maximum amount a loyalty account can hold.
Once guests have earned enough points, they can redeem them for rewards you set for your restaurant, like a free beverage or discounted meal -- the choice is yours! Read on to learn how to set up and start using your program.
Hear below from a Toast customer who has seen great success using Loyalty.
Note: Users with the following access permissions can set up the Toast Loyalty Program configuration and review sales data for gift and rewards cards.
4.8 Marketing Info
4.4 Gift/Rewards Card Reports
For more information on each access permission, please see the Permissions Reference Guide and Toast Platform Guide: Access Permissions Reference.
Toast Loyalty for Multi-Location Groups
If your restaurant is part of a multi-location group, your Toast Loyalty program can be shared across multiple locations. This allows guests to sign up, accrue, and redeem using a single loyalty account across all locations that participate. Program sharing across locations is managed within the "Gift / Rewards Card Group". The Gift / Rewards Card Group is found by navigating to Location Groups > "Loyalty".
Note: Toast currently only supports one program group at a time. Locations removed from the Gift / Rewards Card Group establish an independent loyalty program.
Set Up Your Toast Loyalty Program
If you are a new user of Toast Loyalty, log in to Toast Web and navigate to Marketing > Loyalty > Settings. If you are an existing user and need to adjust your Toast Loyalty settings, see below in this article.
Next, choose your program, then select Continue.
Now, let’s set up your first reward:
Reward type (Discount or Free item)
Reward name & Points needed
Eligible items
Once all of the information is entered, select Continue.
Next, personalize your program.
Review your selections and confirm accuracy. Select Create program.
Your program is now active. You can use the provided link to promote your new program via social media or email.
Toast Loyalty Homepage
Once you have enrolled in Toast Loyalty, you will have access to the Toast Loyalty Homepage, which gives a high-level overview of the reward program; you offer quick controls like accrual bonuses and birthday reward toggles. If you would like to make changes follow the steps below.
Log in to Toast Web and navigate to Marketing > Loyalty > Settings.
Select the Settings button at the top of the page to access your loyalty settings.
Toast Loyalty Settings
Toast Loyalty Programs
Choose the Loyalty Program that fits the needs of your business. To configure Tiered Rewards for Toast Loyalty, see Configure and Redeem Tiered Rewards for Toast Loyalty
Visit based
Guests will earn at a flat rate for each visit, unless a bonus is configured.
You can set the minimum a guest has to spend to “earn” a visit.
After a set number of visits, they will earn either an item or a discount reward.
Amount based
Guests earn - Configure how many points a guest earns for each dollar they spend.
This rewards guests for the amount spent, rather than order frequency.
Note: Guests cannot earn Toast Loyalty points for orders submitted through an online ordering integration such as DoorDash, Grubhub, or Uber Eats.
Toast Loyalty Reward Type Selection
Decide which loyalty rewards your guests will receive by selecting the reward type.
Discount - Provide a cash discount on their next order and determine how many points must be accrued (how much they must spend) to earn the reward. Once they reach the reward target, they can continue to accrue. To limit how much they can redeem, use the “redemption limit” option.
Value per point - Each point a guest earns is worth
Points needed - what total amount a guest can unlock a reward
Free item - Promote a specific menu or item by offering a free item that your guests will love.
Reward name
Points needed to unlock
Eligible items
Note: For restaurants in a multi-location group, be sure to save and publish the free item selections at each location in your group.
You also have the option to set Advanced settings:
Redemption limit - toggling this setting on helps avoid guests redeeming high amounts in one visit. Be sure to enter the points a guest can redeem at once. We recommend setting it as the earned reward amount.
Note: Guests cannot redeem Toast Loyalty points on orders submitted through an online ordering integration such as DoorDash, Grubhub, or Uber Eats.
Toast Loyalty Tiered Rewards
Use the loyalty configuration page in Toast Web to add up to three rewards, each with its own point or visit tier. Configure each reward separately as either a free item or a cash discount.
Toast Loyalty tiered reward selections can be made on the following products:
Branded Mobile App
Kiosk
Toast Online Ordering
Point of Sale
Guest Facing Display
Toast Local App
In Toast Web, navigate to Marketing > Loyalty > Settings.
Next, select the Settings (with the gear icon) > Rewards.
Select Add Reward up increase the reward redemption options for guests. Note: Three rewards are the maximum.
Complete optional settings such as:
Points needed to unlock
Limit reward amount
Eligible items
Once all selections have been made select Save.
New Customers:
You can choose from two types of rewards in their loyalty program:
Dollar-off discounts
Free item rewards
Free item rewards
Free item rewards allow you to select specific items and set limits, such as “free drink up to $8.” Note: You must keep at least one reward active at all times. You can edit or deactivate rewards, but you cannot remove all rewards from your program.
You can offer multiple discount options at different point levels. For example:
1,000 points for $6 off
1,300 points for $12 off
Existing Customers:
If you are currently using a progressive cashback reward, you will see a prompt to update your reward type.
Select Check it out to review and compare your options. This opens a window that displays:
Your current progressive reward structure
A slider to compare point values between the current system and the new fixed-tier system
How the new system works:
With progressive rewards, points convert continuously into value. For example:
A guest with 191 points may have about $19.10 in rewards
With fixed-tier rewards, guests redeem rewards at set point levels. For example:
Guests can redeem $10 for every 100 points
They must reach 200 points to redeem $20
After you switch:
Once you update your reward type, you can create multiple fixed cash reward tiers, such as:
100 points for $10 off
200 points for $20 off
Guests can redeem as many rewards as their loyalty balance and order/cart allow. Note: On the kiosk guests cannot yet select multiple quantities of the same reward, even if they have enough points to do so.
Toast Loyalty Bonus Programs
Encourage loyalty sign-up and repeat business with Toast Loyalty bonus programs.
Signup bonus: is a one-time bonus just for signing up
Birthday treat: This dollar discount reward can be specified for the guest’s birthday, birthday week, or birthday month.
Dining option bonus: offer a 2x or 3x bonus accrual by ordering via a specific channel.
Day & time bonus: attract traffic during a certain day or time by offering a 2x or 3x bonus accrual during specified times.
Toast Loyalty Program Description
The name of your program will appear in automated email or SMS notifications, on the guest’s online loyalty card, and on your online signup page. The description of your program appears on the guest’s online loyalty card and your online signup page.
Toast Loyalty Signup Method
The signup method determines whether or not your guests sign up using an email address or phone number. The channel chosen will determine how your guest receives loyalty messages. Loyalty messages are sent to welcome the guest to the program, notify them of an available reward, or send a link to their loyalty account.
Toast Loyalty Ordering Channels
Determine what ordering channels your guests can use to sign up and redeem. Accrual is allowed on all channels when loyalty is enabled. Lookup allows servers to look up using name, email address, or phone number using the customer search on the point of sale.
Toast Loyalty Alerts
Toast offers alerts for suspicious rewards activity. Turn on these alerts and enter your email address to receive a weekly email each Monday. For more information, see Get Help With Suspicious Rewards Activity.
Promote Your Toast Loyalty Program
Leverage the Promote your program section of your loyalty settings to get links for your website, social media, email marketing, and in-store visuals, and train your employees.
Toast Loyalty Program Availability
Enable or disable Toast Loyalty by selecting the toggle On or Off.
When finished, be sure to save and Publish your changes.
Train Your Staff on Toast Loyalty Program
Share this video with your staff to train them to encourage guests to sign up with Loyalty. Remember, restaurant staff should be the cheerleaders of your loyalty program. Their belief in the program's value is infectious and can encourage customers to participate.
Optional: Additional Set Up
Disabling POS Signup Prompts
The automatic loyalty enrollment prompts on the POS can be disabled for the cash payment and credit card payment flows. This setting can be located in the Payment Options* section of Toast Web.
Excluding Items From a Loyalty Program
You can also exclude parts of your menu from the Rewards program in the Advanced Properties* section of Toast Web.
Note: Toast currently only supports one Rewards Program at any given time.
Additional Resources
Redeem Points on Toast Loyalty: Learn about the various ways your guests can redeem their Loyalty rewards.
Look Up a Toast Loyalty Rewards Balance: Learn about the different ways that your guests can look up their Toast Loyalty rewards balance, including what they can do if they need to manage their points from multiple restaurants.