Werno.
Werno replaces paper stamp cards with a digital loyalty card. Customers can find local shops, collect points, and redeem rewards. Businesses get the other half: campaigns, rewards, users, scanning, and a backend that keeps both apps in sync.
QR loyalty platform — customer app + business tools Client
Werno
Year
2024-2025 · 12-month build and soft launch
Services
Product Design, Customer App, Business App, Backend
Stack
React Native, Expo, .NET, PostgreSQL
Local loyalty, without the friction.
Werno is a digital loyalty card, but it cannot feel like the old card moved onto a screen. The product has to make loyalty feel like a natural part of visiting a local shop.
It has to work on both sides of that relationship: a customer app for discovery, loyalty, rewards, and QR flows; and a business app for the teams creating campaigns, managing rewards, and serving people in-store.
We built the QR loop first.
We treated the QR interaction as the spine of the platform. A customer should be able to find a shop, join its loyalty program, collect stamps or points, activate a reward, and redeem it without the system feeling like paperwork.
From there we built the business side around the same loop: create the loyalty program, publish rewards and collectibles, manage users, scan redemptions, and send the right updates without turning the shop team into software operators.
The product stayed split into three clear surfaces.
- Customer app. Nearby shops, followed locations, loyalty balances, rewards, cards, notifications, and QR actions in one mobile flow.
- Business app. Campaigns, rewards, collectibles, users, loyalty balances, and in-store scanning for the people running the program.
- Shared platform. Profiles, roles, permissions, locations, content, images, push notifications, and the loyalty rules both apps depended on.
Ready for a controlled rollout.
By soft launch, Werno had the full shape of the product in place: two cross-platform apps and a backend that could support local discovery, loyalty programs, rewards, collectibles, coupons, content, notifications, image management, and business-level access control.
That gave Werno the whole operating loop for a pilot: shops could create programs and rewards, staff could scan redemptions in-store, and customers could see their loyalty state update in the app.
01 · Customer discovery
03 · QR reward flow
04 · Business management