Regulr is an AI-powered customer retention and loyalty platform for bowling alleys, family entertainment centers, axe-throwing venues and arcade bars. It sends POS-triggered messages, issues wallet loyalty passes and runs an automated review-request engine. SpiniX is a QR prize wheel at the exit. Every guest wins a prize, sees a Google review link with no condition attached, and gets an Apple or Google Wallet pass. It needs no POS or booking-system integration. This page compares both honestly, including the fact that Regulr’s own pages disagree on its price.
SpiniX is a QR prize wheel placed where every guest leaves: the debrief room of an escape room, the shoe counter of a bowling alley. Each guest scans, spins, wins a guaranteed prize, enters an email to receive it (40% also opt in to marketing), sees the venue’s Google review link with no condition attached (median venue 15% tap it, best venues 52 to 63%), and gets the prize as an Apple or Google Wallet pass. No POS, booking or waiver integration is needed; contacts export as CSV. Starter is $79 a month (GBP 69) for 1 location and 500 spins, one flat price with no setup fee, no contract and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Regulr reads point-of-sale transaction data and writes AI-personalized SMS, email and wallet-push campaigns across five types: new-customer welcome, frequency boost, loyalty reward, win-back and reactivation. For bowling alleys, FECs, axe-throwing venues and arcade bars it adds end-of-session food and drink pushes and a birthday-party retention flow. It integrates natively with Vantix, Centeredge, Embed and Lightspeed, alongside Square, Clover and Toast. Three different prices are connected to it, and only one is specific to entertainment venues. The eatertainment page, covering bowling alleys, FECs, axe throwing and arcade bars, lists a $500 two-month pilot and then $1,000 a month. The homepage lists a $499 two-month pilot for the general local-business offer, with no ongoing price stated. Capterra lists a $400-a-month "All-In-One" plan, also general rather than entertainment-specific. No founding year, no customer count and no independent reviews are published; Capterra shows a 0.0 rating from 0 reviews.
Verdict: If you already run POS-triggered loyalty campaigns and want an AI system layered on top of Square, Clover, Toast or a bowling-specific platform like Vantix or Centeredge, Regulr’s campaign engine and points program go further than anything SpiniX offers. But Regulr has never published one clear price for its entertainment-venue product. Every figure it has published there, the $500 pilot and the $1,000 a month, is well above SpiniX’s $79 a month. Even the cheapest published plan, the $400-a-month Capterra listing, costs more than SpiniX Starter. So does the $249-a-month figure in a Regulr blog post, and that one is a worked example, not a plan. If you want a simple exit-moment prize wheel with a Google review ask that goes to every guest and a Wallet pass, with no integration project required, SpiniX is both the cheaper and the simpler option.
| Feature | SpiniX | Regulr |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $79/mo | $1,000/mo standard + $500 2-month pilot (eatertainment page); $400/mo on Capterra |
| Core mechanic | QR prize wheel, guaranteed prize | AI messaging and loyalty program, no wheel |
| Google review requests | Shown to every guest, no condition | "Grow" module: Regulr says it asks the customers its AI flags as satisfied |
| POS / booking-system integration | None required; works with any system | Square, Clover, Toast, Vantix, Centeredge, Embed, Lightspeed; custom API for others (1-2 weeks) |
| AI-personalized campaigns | No | Yes, 5 campaign types built from POS data |
| Ongoing loyalty-points program | No (single post-visit prize wheel) | Yes, points-based or bring-your-own |
| Wallet pass delivery | Yes, Apple/Google Wallet | Yes, Apple/Google Wallet |
| Published return-visit data | Wallet-pass holders return 2.9x as often (21.5% vs 7.5%, n = 8,109 guests) | Not published |
| WhatsApp reminders | Yes (Twilio) | Not mentioned on any published page |
| Contact export | CSV export | Not stated on any published page |
| Setup fee / contract | No setup fee, no contract | Contract-free per Capterra; other pages describe a paid pilot period first |
| Money-back guarantee | 30-day money-back guarantee | Not published |
| Multi-location pricing | Growth $149/mo (3 locations), Venues $299/mo (10 locations) | Not published; figures found are per-venue |
Yearly billing is 10 months for the price of 12. No setup fee, no contract. 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan.
Four different figures across three vendor-linked pages (regulr.ai, regulr.ai/for/eatertainment, capterra.com/p/10039174/Regulr), never reconciled with each other. Every one of them costs more per month than SpiniX Starter at $79.
Regulr reads point-of-sale transaction data and writes SMS, email and wallet-push messages in the venue’s brand voice across five simultaneous campaign types: new-customer welcome, frequency boost, loyalty reward, win-back and reactivation. That is an ongoing marketing engine running in the background between visits. SpiniX has no equivalent; it does one thing at the moment a guest leaves, and everything after that is a fixed email and wallet reminder sequence, not AI-written or POS-triggered.
Regulr connects directly to Square, Clover and Toast, and for bowling alleys and FECs specifically to Vantix, Centeredge, Embed and Lightspeed, with a custom API build for anything else in 1 to 2 weeks. That means campaigns can trigger off real transaction and booking data automatically. SpiniX does not integrate with any booking, waiver or POS system by design; contacts export as CSV instead, which is simpler to set up but leaves the connecting work to the venue if it wants transaction-level triggers.
Regulr includes a flexible loyalty-program builder: points-based, bring-your-own, or a lightweight version, giving guests a reason to keep transacting to earn rewards over time. SpiniX runs a single post-visit prize wheel with one guaranteed prize per spin; it is not a running points balance and has no equivalent to a loyalty tier or earn-and-redeem structure.
SpiniX Starter is $79 a month, one number, published on one page, the same for every venue type. Regulr’s own pages disagree with each other. The eatertainment page, built specifically for bowling alleys and FECs, says $1,000 a month standard plus a $500 two-month pilot. The general homepage says a $499 two-month pilot, with no ongoing price. A $400-a-month plan appears only on Capterra. None of Regulr’s published figures for an entertainment venue come close to $79, and even the lowest number found anywhere connected to Regulr is above it.
SpiniX shows the Google review link to every guest after the prize, regardless of how their visit went, specifically to avoid incentivizing reviews or filtering out unhappy guests, both of which Google’s review policies prohibit. Regulr describes its "Grow" module as asking the customers its AI has flagged as satisfied. Asking only the guests an AI has flagged as happy may lift the star average. But that is the exact pattern Google’s policy against selectively soliciting reviews, known as review gating, is written about. A venue should ask Regulr how the filter works, and whether unhappy guests still get the link.
SpiniX needs a printed QR code, a phone camera and Apple or Google Wallet; that is the entire setup, no POS, booking system or waiver software required. Regulr’s campaign engine needs POS or booking data to personalize messages. It supports Square, Clover, Toast, Vantix, Centeredge, Embed and Lightspeed. On any other system, the AI campaigns cannot use real transaction data until a custom API build is done, which takes 1 to 2 weeks.
Regulr prices and features: regulr.ai (homepage pilot), regulr.ai/for/eatertainment (pilot and standard price for bowling alleys, FECs, axe throwing and arcade bars) and capterra.com/p/10039174/Regulr/ (the $400-a-month plan and the 0.0 rating from 0 reviews), all checked 5 September 2026; the $249 figure is a worked example in a Regulr blog post, not a plan. Every SpiniX number comes from the SpiniX platform and carries its definition on spinix.so/results/; plans and prices are on spinix.so/pricing/.
Regulr’s own pages do not agree. Its /for/eatertainment page (bowling alleys, FECs, axe throwing, arcade bars) quotes a $500 two-month pilot followed by $1,000 a month standard. The regulr.ai homepage quotes a $499 two-month pilot for the general local-business offer with no ongoing price stated. Capterra’s listing shows a $400-a-month "All-In-One" plan not mentioned on regulr.ai at all. A blog post about a single-location coffee shop uses $249 a month as a worked example, not a published tier. Three vendor-controlled sources, three different numbers, none of them reconciled.
No, on every published figure. SpiniX Starter is $79 a month, flat, for any venue type. The lowest number found anywhere connected to Regulr is $249 a month (a single-location coffee-shop example in a blog post, not a real pricing tier), and the lowest real published plan is $400 a month on Capterra. The entertainment-venue-specific figures on regulr.ai/for/eatertainment ($500 for a 2-month pilot, then $1,000 a month) are the highest of all. SpiniX is the cheaper product against every number Regulr has published.
No. SpiniX does not have a points-based loyalty program and does not generate AI-personalized marketing campaigns. It runs a QR prize wheel with a guaranteed prize, an Apple or Google Wallet pass, and automated email and WhatsApp reminders before the offer expires. If an ongoing points program or AI-written retention campaigns are what you need, that is Regulr’s territory, not SpiniX’s.
Regulr reads point-of-sale transaction data and writes AI-personalized SMS, email and Apple/Google Wallet push messages. There are five categories: new-customer welcome, frequency boost, loyalty reward, win-back and reactivation. For bowling alleys, FECs, axe-throwing venues and arcade bars it adds an end-of-session food and drink push and a birthday-party retention flow (parent capture, a 48-hour thank-you, a 14-day return offer, an 11-month birthday reminder). It also includes a points-based or bring-your-own loyalty-program builder and an automated review-request module.
The general Regulr site names Square, Clover and Toast. The eatertainment page adds bowling/FEC-specific systems: Vantix, Centeredge, Embed and Lightspeed. For anything outside that list, Regulr says a custom API integration takes 1 to 2 weeks. SpiniX takes the opposite approach: it does not integrate with any booking, waiver or POS system, so there is no system to check compatibility with, and contacts export as a plain CSV.
Not that could be found. Regulr’s Capterra listing shows an overall rating of 0.0 from 0 reviews. A search for a G2 listing found no matching product page. No founding year and no customer or install count appear on Regulr’s /about page or anywhere else checked, only generic industry statistics with no venue names attached.
No. The Google review link is shown to every guest after the prize, whatever their experience, with no condition attached. Regulr describes its "Grow" module differently: it automatically asks the customers its AI has flagged as satisfied. Google’s review policy prohibits selectively soliciting reviews (review gating), so a venue considering that module should ask Regulr exactly how the filter works before switching it on. SpiniX shows the link to everyone specifically to stay clear of the question.
It depends on what the venue already has. A venue running Vantix, Centeredge or a similar booking system that wants ongoing AI-written campaigns and a points program has more to work with in Regulr, once it settles on which of Regulr’s published prices actually applies. A venue that wants a simple exit-moment prize wheel, a Google review ask that reaches every guest, and a Wallet pass with no integration project, at one flat and lower price, is better served by SpiniX. SpiniX also publishes venue-specific pages and prize sets. They cover escape rooms, bowling alleys, FECs, trampoline parks, axe throwing, mini golf, go-kart tracks and laser tag. Regulr’s only entertainment-specific page covers eatertainment in general.
SpiniX runs the spin, captures the email, shows every guest the Google review link, and drops the prize into Apple or Google Wallet, all without touching your POS or booking system. No contract, 30-day money-back guarantee.
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