For day spas
A card that turns a birthday voucher into a habit
A day spa meets plenty of guests through a voucher someone else bought. The ones who come back on their own money become the regulars, and a stamp card on their mobile is a reason to make the spa a routine rather than a once-a-year treat. Counter Club runs the card and lets you tell the club when midweek needs filling.
Linden Hollow Day Spa
One stamp per treatment over $100. Five earn a free 30-minute add-on.
3 of 5 Two treatments to go.
What gets in the way for day spas
The voucher guest is a one-off unless asked
Someone who came on a gift voucher has no particular reason to return on their own money. Asking them to join at the end of the visit, with a reward in sight, gives them one.
Weekends full, weekdays quiet
Saturday rooms book out weeks ahead while Tuesday mornings sit empty. A text to the club on Local Favourite with a midweek offer moves a few regulars to the days you need them.
Treatments cost enough that cards must be short
At $150 or more a visit every month or two, a long card never finishes. Five stamps, one per treatment over a set price, keeps the reward within reach of a real regular.
A worked example
Day spa work, with Counter Club
Linden Hollow Day Spa is a fictional spa with four treatment rooms and a relaxation lounge. A regular books a $160 facial or a 90-minute massage about every six weeks: eight or nine visits and around $1,390 a year. The owner sets the card at 5 stamps, one per paid treatment over $100, and writes the reward as "a free 30-minute add-on with your next treatment". Voucher visits are not stamped, and the card at reception says so. A six-weekly regular earns the reward in about seven months.
The QR stands on the tea table in the lounge, where guests sit with their phones back in hand before they leave. In five months 210 guests join on Regulars, and the next spring, with 450 members, the spa moves to Local Favourite. On a slow Tuesday the owner texts: "Midweek in the treatment rooms: any 60-minute massage is $20 off on Wednesday and Thursday. Ring the spa to book." Fourteen of the open appointments fill, and the text used 450 of the month's 2,000 campaign messages.
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Day spas on Not a Chain
Not a Chain ranks day spas by their Google rating, adjusted for how many reviews stand behind it, with chains left out. Figures as of October 2026.
See the day spas on Not a Chain. Being listed there has nothing to do with using Counter Club: no listing is sold and no rank changes.
Questions from day spas
Should voucher visits earn stamps?
Leaving them unstamped is the simplest rule: the guest joins on the day and starts collecting on the first visit they pay for. Whichever you choose, write it on the card at reception.
Can couples share a card?
A card belongs to one mobile number. If one partner always pays for both, they can collect a stamp per treatment on their own card, if that is your rule.
What should a spa send to the club?
A quiet midweek offer, a new treatment, a reminder that vouchers make good gifts before Mother's Day and Christmas. Four to six messages a year, each with a price and a reason, keep the club happy to hear from you.
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Setting the card takes two minutes. The first fifty members are free, paid for by a marketing consent instead of a card, and the card runs in full from day one.