Alternative to Joy Loyalty

The best alternative to Joy Loyalty for Shopify brands ready to outgrow starter rewards.

A more capable Joy Loyalty alternative for Shopify, with Customer Accounts, no-code editor, wishlists, and fraud-protected referrals included. Mage scales with you from $49/month all the way to enterprise volume.
Starter plan
From $49
Starter to enterprise
Scales
Go-live, zero downtime
Same-day
Mage Customer Account sidebar with loyalty, orders, returns, and recommendations unified

The fastest growing brands choose Mage

Designed for today’s leading brands. Mage elevates loyalty into a refined, scalable growth experience your team and customers will love.

4x

Average ROI our customers see over the cost of Mage.

+15%

Average revenue lift — top performers hit 25%.

3.1x

More annual spend from loyalty members who redeem rewards vs those who don't.

Why brands switch from Joy Loyalty to Mage

Joy is great for getting started. When you're ready for a real loyalty program, Mage is what comes next.

Modern Customer Accounts

An on-site sidebar that unifies orders, returns, loyalty, wishlists, and upsells. Joy gives you a basic widget; Mage gives you the whole account.

No-code Canvas editor

Marketers and ecom teams design loyalty, account, referral, and wishlist blocks live, without engineers. Joy has nothing close.

Wishlists included

Built-in wishlists and saves on every plan. Joy doesn't offer this at all.

Fraud-protected referrals

Two-sided rewards with built-in fraud detection, abuse limits, and approval flows. Joy's referrals don't come close.

Plans that scale with your store

Starter from $49 for smaller brands ready to graduate from Joy. Growth packed with features for fast-growing and enterprise brands.

Every feature on every paid plan

Loyalty, referrals, customer accounts, wishlists, and memberships in one bundled subscription. No tier-locked upgrades.

Built for modern Shopify

Joy gives you a widget. Mage gives you the account.

Mage Customer Accounts unify orders, returns, loyalty, wishlists, and personalized recommendations in a single on-site sidebar, built with our no-code Canvas editor.

Joy drops a rewards widget on your storefront and stops there. Mage rebuilds the account experience around loyalty, so every logged-in visit becomes a retention surface, not just a points check.
Mage Accounts sidebar showing orders, loyalty, and recently-viewed products

Pricing that scales with your store, not against it

Joy is cheap to start, but you pay the price in features. Mage Starter is robust at $49, and Growth unlocks the full platform when you're ready.

Starter at $49/month

All the loyalty fundamentals plus modern features Joy doesn't ship. The right starting point for small brands that take retention seriously.

Growth packed with features

Customer Accounts, wishlists, fraud-protected referrals, store credit, memberships, and the developer API, all in one plan.

Scales to enterprise

From your first 100 customers to high-volume Shopify Plus stores, Mage moves with you. No replatform when you grow.

Wishlists & saves

Joy doesn't have wishlists. Mage includes them.

Wishlists drive second purchases, yet Joy Loyalty doesn't offer them at all. Mage bundles built-in wishlists and saves with every plan, so customers can save favorites, get back-in-stock alerts, and convert from intent to purchase without leaving your store.

  • Save favorites with one tap from PDPs, collection pages, or directly inside the account sidebar
  • Back-in-stock & price-drop alerts automatic emails and SMS when wished-for products restock or drop in price
  • Included on every plan no upgrade tier, no separate subscription, no per-customer fee
Mage wishlist popup with saved items and back-in-stock alerts
Built for your whole team

A full Canvas editor.Not just a rewards widget.

Joy gives you a basic rewards widget. Mage Canvas is a true no-code editor your ecommerce and marketing team can use to build, change, and ship loyalty, account, referral, and wishlist blocks across the storefront. And when you do need to go deeper, a full developer API and JS SDK are right there waiting.

  • Mage Canvas no-code editor drag, drop, and design loyalty, account, referral, and wishlist blocks live
  • Full developer API & JS SDK extend, embed, or build headless on the same API our own widgets run on
  • Klaviyo, Postscript, Judge.me, and more 20+ native integrations to plug loyalty data into your stack
Mage's no-code Shopify account builder, an alternative to Joy Loyalty

Mage vs Joy Loyalty, feature by feature

Same loyalty fundamentals as Joy Loyalty, with the modern customer experience, deeper features, and a plan that scales with your store.

Joy Loyalty logoJoy Loyalty
Points and basic rewards
Modern Customer Account sidebarUnify orders, returns, loyalty, and upsells in an on-site account drawer.
No-code Canvas editorA full design editor, not just a basic widget config.
Wishlists & saves
Advanced VIP tiers with auto-progression
Limited
Fraud-protected referrals
Limited
Full developer API & JS SDK
Checkout extensions for native redemption
Plans that scale to enterprise
Free white-glove migration
Free migration

Your data, your customers, zero downtime.

We've built a direct Joy Loyalty migration tool that imports every point balance, VIP tier, and referral record exactly as it stands today. Our team handles the switch end-to-end, and most brands go live the same week they install Mage.

  • One-click import of points, VIP tiers, and referral history
  • All earning rules and rewards rebuilt 1:1 in Mage
  • Zero customer disruption: same balances, better program
  • White-glove migration handled by our team, not a checklist

Pricing & Plans

The all-in-one loyalty platform for brands serious about retention

Starter

For growing brands, get access to a loyalty program with Shopify POS, VIP Tiers, earning rules and rewards.

$49

per month

Monthly Orders400 included
$0.15per additional order
Loyalty
  • Shopify POS integration
  • Access to all earning rules
  • Access to all rewards
  • VIP Tiers
  • Emails & Customisation
Referrals
  • Refer a friend scheme
  • Referral reward popup
Wishlists
  • Shareable Wishlists and Favorites
Analytics
  • Basic Analytics
Integrations
  • Key integrations

Growth

Popular

For established brands. Customer Accounts, Wishlists and advanced retention features.

$499

per month

Monthly Orders2,500 included
$0.10per additional order

Everything in Starter, plus:

Accounts
  • AI Upsells based on preferences
  • Passwordless Login & Signup
  • Recently Viewed & Saved to Cart
  • Unified Subscriptions & Returns
Loyalty
  • Bonus Campaign Events
  • Points Drops
  • Checkout Extensions
Referrals
  • Referral Campaigns
  • Fraud prevention
Analytics
  • Advanced Analytics
Integrations & Support
  • All integrations
  • Priority Support

Enterprise

For high-volume brands with custom needs. Full platform with developer tools, API and dedicated support.

Pricing

Tailored to you

Build a plan that fits

Included Orders10,000+

Additional orders

Custom rate

Everything in Growth, plus:

Loyalty
  • Advanced reporting and analytics
Enterprise
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Quarterly review & strategy planning
  • Full migration support
  • White glove onboarding & setup
  • Full developer access
Analytics
  • Advanced & Custom Analytics
Integrations & Support
  • Dedicated Slack Channel
  • Custom Integrations
Merchants Love Mage

Built for merchants.
Loved by customers.
Powered by loyalty.

Jenn

Great app! User friendly and straightforward. The customer service team has been great and so helpful with some minor tweaks I wanted to make and customize

Jenn
Founder, skynbio
Juan Niño

I looked into so many different integrations for loyalty and referrals for our Shopify Store, but no one impressed me more than Mage on human connection, customer service, and value.

Juan Niño
Director of Ecommerce, Reelie

Switching from Joy Loyalty? FAQ

Mage is the best alternative to Joy Loyalty for Shopify brands ready to outgrow starter-tier rewards. Joy is great for stores just getting going, but it doesn't ship the things growing brands actually need: Customer Accounts, a no-code editor, wishlists, fraud-protected referrals, or a developer API. Mage Starter from $49 keeps things lean for smaller brands; Growth gives you the full platform when you're ready.

Joy is built for simplicity, which is great until you outgrow it. The most common switch signals: you want a branded customer account, you need fraud protection on referrals, you want to combine loyalty with wishlists or upsells, or you've hit the ceiling on Joy's plans. If any of those are you, Mage is the next step.

No. We import every point balance, lifetime points, VIP tier, and referral record exactly as it stands in Joy Loyalty. Customers log in to find the same balance in a faster, more capable program.

Joy is cheap to start, but you pay the price in features. Mage Starter at $49/month is the right next step for smaller brands wanting something more capable without the enterprise tag. Growth then unlocks Customer Accounts, wishlists, fraud-protected referrals, and the developer API in one bundled plan.

A modern Customer Account sidebar that unifies orders, returns, loyalty, and recommendations; a true no-code Canvas editor for marketing teams; built-in wishlists and saves; fraud-protected two-sided referrals; checkout extensions for native point redemption; and a full developer API and JS SDK.

Built natively for the modern Shopify stack, with full support for 2.0 themes, app blocks, checkout extensions, and Plus features like Multipass SSO. Headless storefronts use the same API and SDK our embedded widgets are built on.

Founder-led support with direct Slack access to the engineers building Mage. Free white-glove migration from Joy Loyalty. We treat support as part of the product, not a separate help-desk queue.