Do my customers have to download an app?

No. Kashvi builds a web app your customers can open from a link you share on WhatsApp or a table QR code, so their first visit counts without any install. You also get native Android and iOS builds if you want to publish a proper app later, but it is never a barrier to joining.

How do points get added when someone pays by UPI?

You can prompt Kashvi to convert a bill amount into points at your chosen rate, so a staff member enters the paid amount once, or you build a flow where paying via your UPI link records the visit automatically. Because you own the code and database, you decide the exact earning rule.

Can my part-time staff use it without breaking my settings?

Yes. A typical build includes a separate counter mode where staff can look up a customer by phone number, add a visit, and redeem rewards, while your points rules, campaigns and dashboard stay in the owner-only admin area.

What happens to my data and code if I stop using Kashvi?

It stays yours. Kashvi generates a real database and full downloadable source code with no proprietary runtime, so you can host the app yourself and keep every customer record. There is no lock-in.

Can I run festival or birthday campaigns?

Yes. You can prompt Kashvi to target customers by last-visit date for a festival double-points weekend, or flag customers with a birthday that week for a free item, and deliver the coupon on a channel they actually read rather than forcing a notification.

Is this built for Indian payments and pricing?

Yes. Razorpay and UPI are first-class, prices are in INR, and GST-aware billing is available if you charge for a premium membership tier. The whole thing is shaped for how a cafe in India actually takes money and talks to customers.

Use case

Build a Loyalty & Rewards App for Your Cafe or Restaurant

Your regulars already come back three times a week. The problem is they earn nothing for it, and the paper punch card in the drawer keeps getting lost or forged. Kashvi lets you describe the loyalty program you actually want in plain English and builds a real working app around it: a live points database, phone-number sign-in your staff can run from the counter, a customer-facing rewards screen, and downloadable source code you own. No monthly SaaS lock-in, no proprietary runtime, and nothing your customers have to install before their first visit counts.

Most loyalty tools built for cafes assume a US drive-thru with an app store install and a plastic card reader. That is the wrong shape for a filter-coffee spot in Indore or a third-wave roastery in Bengaluru. Here the customer pays by UPI, chats with you on WhatsApp, and would never download a separate app just to collect a free samosa. Kashvi builds the program that fits that reality, and it builds it from a sentence, not a six-week integration project.

What a cafe loyalty app actually needs

A rewards program for a food business is not just a points counter. It has to survive a rush, work in the hands of a part-time barista, and give the owner a reason to trust the numbers. When you prompt Kashvi, it can generate all of the moving parts a real one needs:

Points tied to the customer's phone number, so a regular is recognised whether they visited last week or last month, no card to carry.
UPI-linked earning: a customer scans and pays, and the bill value converts to points automatically so staff never key in amounts by hand.
A rewards catalogue you control, from a free cortado at 100 points to a 20 percent birthday discount, each with its own redemption rule.
A counter mode for staff, where anyone on shift can look up a customer, add a visit, or redeem a reward without touching your admin settings.
WhatsApp-style reward delivery: instead of forcing an install, a customer gets their points balance and coupon code on a channel they already read.
An owner dashboard showing repeat-visit rate, points outstanding as a liability, and which rewards actually pull people back in.

How Kashvi builds it from a prompt

You type what you want. Kashvi provisions a real Postgres database for customers, visits and redemptions, wires up phone-based sign-up and login, and generates both a web app and native Android and iOS builds through React Native so your staff can run the counter from a phone or tablet and customers can check points from the web link you share. You get a live preview as it builds, and if a generation step fails, the credits for it are refunded, that is the fair-billing promise, not a marketing line. When it is done you can download the full codebase and host it yourself. Nothing is trapped behind a runtime you cannot see.

Try this prompt: "Build a loyalty app for my cafe. Customers earn 1 point per 10 rupees spent, sign in with their phone number, and can redeem 100 points for a free coffee. Give me a counter screen for staff to add points and a customer screen to check their balance."

Or this: "Add a festival campaign feature so I can send all customers who visited in the last 60 days a double-points weekend, with a coupon code they can show at the counter."

Or: "Create a birthday rewards flow. When a customer's birthday is this week, mark them for a free dessert and show a badge on their profile in the staff counter view."

Each prompt builds on the last on top of the same database, so you are growing one real app, not stitching together disconnected demos. Because the pricing and payment side is built for India first, Razorpay and UPI are treated as the default, INR is the currency, and GST-aware billing is available when you start charging for premium tiers of your own program.

Paper punch card	Generic loyalty SaaS	Kashvi-built app
Lost, forged, no data	Monthly fee, US-shaped	Your DB, your code
No customer contact	App install required	WhatsApp reward delivery, no install
Manual, error-prone	Card reader hardware	UPI-linked points, phone sign-in
Zero insight	Reports you rent	Owner dashboard you own

The festival angle matters more than people outside India assume. Diwali, Eid, Onam and regional new years are the weeks a cafe either builds a habit or loses a customer to the shiny new place down the road. A blast that rewards recent visitors with double points over a long weekend costs you nothing until it works, and Kashvi can build that targeting logic into the app you already own instead of paying a third party per message.

Questions

Frequently asked

Do my customers have to download an app?: No. Kashvi builds a web app your customers can open from a link you share on WhatsApp or a table QR code, so their first visit counts without any install. You also get native Android and iOS builds if you want to publish a proper app later, but it is never a barrier to joining.
How do points get added when someone pays by UPI?: You can prompt Kashvi to convert a bill amount into points at your chosen rate, so a staff member enters the paid amount once, or you build a flow where paying via your UPI link records the visit automatically. Because you own the code and database, you decide the exact earning rule.
Can my part-time staff use it without breaking my settings?: Yes. A typical build includes a separate counter mode where staff can look up a customer by phone number, add a visit, and redeem rewards, while your points rules, campaigns and dashboard stay in the owner-only admin area.
What happens to my data and code if I stop using Kashvi?: It stays yours. Kashvi generates a real database and full downloadable source code with no proprietary runtime, so you can host the app yourself and keep every customer record. There is no lock-in.
Can I run festival or birthday campaigns?: Yes. You can prompt Kashvi to target customers by last-visit date for a festival double-points weekend, or flag customers with a birthday that week for a free item, and deliver the coupon on a channel they actually read rather than forcing a notification.
Is this built for Indian payments and pricing?: Yes. Razorpay and UPI are first-class, prices are in INR, and GST-aware billing is available if you charge for a premium membership tier. The whole thing is shaped for how a cafe in India actually takes money and talks to customers.

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