Stamps on Your Card: Photo, Overlay, or Grid
By default, a stamp card shows your photo with the collected stamps listed underneath as text — the classic look. You can now draw those stamps directly on the card art instead, the way a paper punch card looks.
Where to find the setting
1. Open your program from the Programs page. 2. Click Edit card (or go to the Setup tab). 3. Open the Design section. 4. Scroll to Stamps on the card.
This setting is available on stamp cards, Bundles (prepaid stamp cards), and coupons that turn into a stamp card when redeemed — on a coupon, the stamps appear once your customer has redeemed it. Other card types don't collect stamps, so there's nothing to draw.
The three modes
- Photo only — today's look. Your photo shows as normal, with stamps listed underneath as text. This is the default, and nothing changes for you or your customers unless you pick a different mode.
- Stamps over photo — stamps are drawn on top of your photo, so customers see their progress and your photo at the same time.
- Stamp grid only — stamps are shown on your card's colour instead of the photo. Your photo is hidden while this mode is selected.
Collected stamps are solid, the rest are outlines
In both drawn modes, a stamp your customer has already collected is filled in solid. A stamp they haven't collected yet is the same shape drawn as an outline, and it fills in the moment they earn it. That's the whole progress story at a glance: an outline says "not yet", a solid mark says "got it" — the same read as a paper punch card.
Choosing a shape and colour
Once you pick Stamps over photo or Stamp grid only, two more options appear:
- Stamp shape — pick from 24 built-in icons (dot, star, heart, tick, crown, gift, ticket, coffee cup, cupcake, pizza, dish, glass, ice cream, scissors, lipstick, nail polish, leaf, flower, shirt, shopping bag, book, car, dumbbell, paw). Pick whichever fits your business.
- Stamp colour — the colour of each stamp mark. It defaults to your card's accent colour, so it matches your existing design automatically, but you can pick a different colour if you want the stamps to stand out.
The line under the stamps shows your reward
Once the stamps are drawn on the card art, the line beneath them stops repeating the count the marks already show. It leads with your reward instead: a small label counts down, and your own reward text sits under it. A card that still needs 7 stamps for a free coffee reads:
7 MORE STAMPS TO RECEIVE
Free coffee
On the last stamp the label becomes Ready to receive, with the reward still underneath.
The reward text is exactly what you typed into What they get in the Stamps & reward section — it's shown word for word, so keep it short enough to sit on one line of a wallet card.
If you never filled that field in, there is nothing to lead with, so the line keeps showing the count: the "Collect 7 more stamps to receive…" label above 3 / 10, the way it read before. Write your reward into What they get and the card switches to the reward-led line the next time it refreshes.
None of this touches Photo only cards — they keep listing the stamps underneath the photo as text, exactly as they do today.
Existing cards are unaffected until you change this
The default for every card — new and existing — is Photo only, exactly how cards look today. Nothing changes for a card until you deliberately switch it to Stamps over photo or Stamp grid only. There's no need to check your other programs after this update ships; none of them will look any different.
Android and Apple update at different speeds
On Apple Wallet, a design change reaches customers who already have the card the next time their pass refreshes, which usually happens quickly.
On Google Wallet, it's different: a customer who already has your card will keep seeing the old design until the next time they collect a stamp. That's deliberate — pushing an update to every wallet immediately would mean contacting every single installed pass at once, which doesn't scale. New customers who install the card after you change the setting always see the new design right away.
So if you switch on Stamps over photo and a customer with an Android phone tells you their card still looks the same, that's expected — it'll update the next time they get a stamp, not before.
Very large stamp targets
If a reward needs more than 24 stamps, the card shows a single number instead of drawing every stamp individually — that many small marks stop being readable on a wallet card. The line underneath still leads with your reward. If a reward needs more than 50 stamps, the new design doesn't apply at all for that card, and it looks the way Photo only would — your photo (if you have one) with the stamp count as text underneath, and no reward-led line. Either way, the card keeps working normally; it just won't draw the full stamp grid at very high stamp counts.