About Boost Cards

Who publishes Boost Cards, what we publish and why. An editorial and product statement for the project.

About BoostLast verified 2026-09-22Updated
Illustration of Boost.cards research methodology with source documents, citations, verification, comparison criteria and update checks.
Illustration of the Boost Cards research process.

Mission

Boost.cards exists to help small and mid-sized businesses design, run and measure customer-retention programs — loyalty, gift cards, digital stamps, QR cards — without paying for fabricated reviews, opaque scoring or vendor capture.

We publish practical tools, calculators and side-by-side software research. We do not publish fake statistics, fake customer counts, fake testimonials or invented credentials.

Audience

Cafés, coffee shops, restaurants, salons, barber shops, bakeries, retail, gyms, spas, ecommerce and other small businesses evaluating loyalty and gift-card programs.

What we publish

Calculators (ROI, gift card profit, stamp card reward), generators (QR card, loyalty card builder), pillar guides (loyalty cards, gift cards, digital stamp cards, QR cards), industry playbooks (10 verticals), resources (glossary, examples, metrics, template), and software research (3 categories).

Illustration of a small-business loyalty platform with digital loyalty cards, gift cards, QR cards and a customer-retention dashboard.
Illustrative overview of the topics and tools Boost Cards covers.

What we do not publish

Rankings that imply we have personally evaluated every vendor. We publish evaluation frameworks and decision criteria, not scoreboards. We do not invent reviews. We do not cite research we have not read. We do not publish customer counts we cannot verify.

Ownership

Boost Cards is operated as an editorial product. The publication is independent; vendor relationships are disclosed when they exist (see the affiliate disclosure).