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Index › Vendors › Joy Loyalty · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Joy Loyalty

5Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Joy Loyalty was named 2 times in Loyalty, where Smile.io led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business24 of 119

under the label threshold

Mid-market12 of 124

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In loyalty · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Joy Loyalty for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Loyalty, advocacy and referrals	Marketing	2%	12 of 124	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Smile.io at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Joy Loyalty yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Joy Loyalty across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Joy Loyalty is recommended if budget is the primary constraint.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Loyalty · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Low-Cost Specialized Alternatives: Joy Loyalty or Loloyal” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Loyalty · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Joy Loyalty, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Joy Loyalty was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Smile.io5 of 53Not in the top three

ReferralCandy4 of 50Not in the top three

Growave2 of 50Not in the top three

Loyally.ai2 of 50Not in the top three

Loyverse POS2 of 50Not in the top three

BON Loyalty1 of 51Not in the top three

Loop.fans1 of 51Not in the top three

Bloop1 of 50Not in the top three

Blossu1 of 50Not in the top three

Boomerangme1 of 50Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Joy Loyalty. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 5 answers that named Joy Loyalty and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

99minds.io2

blossu.com2

collegian.com2

openloyalty.io2

bonloyalty.com1

bonusqr.com1

extole.com1

fastercapital.com1

gameball.co1

kognitiv.com1

Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Joy Loyalty came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

99minds.io/blog/loyalty-program-apps2

blossu.com/blog/best-referral-program-software2

collegian.com/sponsored/2025/12/top-5-referral-program-software-for-small-business-in-20262

openloyalty.io/insider/best-referral-software2

bonloyalty.com/blog/affordable-loyalty-programs1

bonloyalty.com/blog/loyalty-programs-for-small-business1

bonusqr.com/article/top-customer-loyalty-program-examples-for-small-business-in-20261

extole.com/blog/retail-referral-software1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Joy Loyalty's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Joy Loyalty, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at joyloyalty.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.