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A Unified Alternative to Love Loyalty
Love Loyalty focuses on points and rewards programs, but if you need memberships with gated content, tiered access, and recurring billing alongside loyalty features, Zendra brings it all together in one app.
Why merchants switch to Zendra
Love Loyalty does points-based rewards well, but merchants who want paid memberships alongside loyalty features find they need more than what it provides.
memberships
Paid memberships built in
Zendra lets you create paid membership programs with recurring billing, tiered access, and member perks. Love Loyalty focuses on free points-based programs without paid membership functionality.
Content gating
Restrict content by tier
Gate pages, products, and collections by membership level. Love Loyalty doesn’t offer content restriction — its rewards are about earning and redeeming points, not controlling access.
Unified platform
Loyalty + memberships in one
Run a loyalty program and a paid membership from the same app. With Love Loyalty, you’d need a separate app for memberships, creating a fragmented experience for both you and your customers.
Recurring revenue
Built for recurring billing
Zendra handles subscription billing natively — recurring payments, dunning, trial periods, and gifting. Love Loyalty is transactional, focused on rewarding purchases rather than generating recurring revenue.
member portal
A complete member experience
Members get a branded portal to manage their tier, view perks, and engage with your program. Love Loyalty’s customer interface is centered around points balance and redemption.
Analytics
Membership + loyalty insights
Track membership metrics alongside loyalty engagement. Understand how paid members and loyalty participants interact differently with your brand.
Feature by feature
How the two apps compare when you need more than just a points program.
Paid membership
Full paid membership support with recurring billing, tier management, and member-specific perks and access.
Not a membership platform. Love Loyalty focuses on free-to-join loyalty programs based on points and rewards.
Content gating
Native content restriction by membership tier — pages, products, and collections with automatic enforcement.
No content gating. The platform is designed around earning and redeeming points, not restricting access to content.
Content dripping
Schedule content to unlock on a timeline relative to each member’s join date — e.g., “available after 14 days.”
No built-in content drip scheduling for perks or programs.
Purchase restrictions
Allow anyone to browse, but restrict adding to cart and checkout to active members only.
No cart-level or checkout-level purchase restrictions.
Member discounts
Automatic order-level and product-level discounts for members, calculated at checkout. Supports percentage and fixed amounts.
Points-based rewards can include discount codes, but no automatic member-specific pricing at checkout.
Shipping perks
Free shipping, shipping rate discounts, and members-only shipping rates (e.g., priority shipping for members only).
No members-only shipping rate restrictions or shipping perks.
Perk scheduling
Set start and end dates on any perk. Run member sales or seasonal benefits that activate and expire automatically.
No perk scheduling. Benefits are either active or inactive.
Recurring billing
Weekly, monthly, annual, or custom intervals with free trials, signup fees, and minimum commitment periods.
No recurring billing — Love Loyalty doesn’t handle subscription payments.
Member portal
Branded portal for tier management, perk discovery, billing, and membership engagement all in one place.
Customer-facing widget for points balance, available rewards, and referral links. Focused on loyalty, not membership management.
Loyalty & rewards
Rewards based on membership (like exclusive sale, content, product access). Offer member coupons or store credit for loyalty.
Strong points and rewards system with multiple earning rules, referral programs, and various redemption options.
Smart tagging
Automatically tag customers in Shopify based on membership tier, status, and activity. Use in Shopify Flow and email automations.
Some customer segmentation through VIP tiers, but no automatic Shopify customer tagging.
Pricing
Free tier available. All features — loyalty, memberships, and billing — included at transparent price points.
Competitive pricing for loyalty, but adding membership capabilities requires a separate app purchase.
0%
Transaction fees on any Zendra plan
50+
Membership features built into Zendra
5.0
Zendra’s Shopify App Store rating
★★★★★
Zendra was really easy to install & set up, I had my first plan added in about 10 minutes. Ian from chat was really helpful to suggest the perks I should include in my membership to get more signups!
Moon Shadow crafts
★★★★★
The team is responsive to questions, quick to turn around updates and feature requests, and has helped us troubleshoot and resolve numerous issues. Recommended without hesitation.
Norfolk Wine & Spirits
★★★★★
Easy set up for what we needed for our business. Team was great getting everything behind the scenes up and running and it looks amazing.
DBC Baby Bedding
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Zendra combines paid memberships with a points-based loyalty program in a single app. You can offer loyalty rewards to all customers while providing extra perks to paid members.
Zendra covers the core loyalty features most merchants need — points earning, redemption, and referrals. Love Loyalty has a deeper points-specific feature set, but Zendra’s advantage is combining loyalty with memberships.
Absolutely. We find that as your program grows, you’ll naturally want to expand — and add content gating, membership tiers, or loyalty features. Starting with Zendra saves you a migration later, lets you add membership features whenever you want to, and saves you money on transaction fees — no tax on your earnings! Zendra works great for simple subscriptions as well as more robust membership & loyalty programs.
Zendra doesn’t leverage points balances and redemptions, so we recommend running the apps alongside one another for a time. You can spin up new memberships in Zendra, and sunset points earning, giving customers a timeline to use remaining points.
We’re happy to help advise on the best migration path though! Get in touch and we’ll figure out a plan together.
For loyalty-only features, pricing is comparable. But when you consider that Zendra also includes memberships, content gating, and recurring billing — all in one app — it’s more cost-effective than running Love Loyalty plus a separate membership app.
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