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Introduction

This document provides an overview of overviews how the CRM.COM platform powers the membership economy and ultimately helps proud brands evolve from regular transactions to personalize offerings and B2B communities.

Following, we present the CRM.COM Platform Products structure and the main Platform components/modules with a brief description. The appropriate combination of these elements/modules can easily deploy in a self-service manner, all the services offered by the CRM.COM platform.

The purpose of this document is This document aims to enable the integrator/key user and provide an overview of what the CRM.COM platform can do in terms of the core functional areas of the four products offered and targeting vertical industries.

CRM.COM Product Positioning

CRM.COM powers 100% of the technology and business model required to run your organization as a membership community(B2B2C), providing four products that can be setup set up as a stepped journey:

  1. Identity Management: Onboard and manage your customers, provide omni channel omnichannel self-service access, capture purchases with a versatile wallet spend model, segment into micro-personas

  2. Commerce Wallet and Digital Promotions: Promotion and reward offers targeting to target customer segments and a commerce wallet keeping a commerce and open balance and all customer payment methods

  3. Subscriptions and Commerce: An advanced product catalogue and , versatile ordering, and a powerful subscription platform supporting from the simple termed service to XaaS to advanced usage-based for on IoT and triple play.

  4. Business Communities: Setup your business Network. Enhance your brand and enrich the services offered with B2B community services and products. Setup Set up joined promotions with your partners and aggregate services and products.

CRM.COM Platform - The big picture

Below we describe the structure of the CRM.COM platform , regarding the 4 Products, associated features/processes and key related S/W components.

4 Products and Key Features/

process

processes covered

In the following table, we present how the CRM.COM Platform deploy deployed the membership economy concept through its products journey and supported functionality (e.g. processes, components).

Using this table, any integration/key user can easily understand what services are supported and how they are deployed.

Membership Product

Key features and process coverage

Components/Modules

Identity Management

  • Identity management and self-service API

  • Ready-made app, portal and mobile passes; app and portal published by the service owner

  • Transaction Processor and POS integration capturing customer purchases and spend spending requests

  • Segment customers into multiple micro-personas using the advanced CRM.COM embedded BI

  • contacts

  • customer events

  • apps & portals

  • communications

  • service requests

  • analytics (identity management)

  • activities

  • leads

Commerce Wallet and Digital Promotions

  • CRM.COM wallet , maintains customer open balance, business open balance, business commerce balance

  • Passes (gift, top-up) crediting the wallet

  • Promotion (instant) and reward (accumulated) offers provide discount or commerce balance in customer wallet at ’s wallet at the point of customer interaction based on historic and current purchases

  • Friction-less flows with promotion-based aggregation. Capture the purchase and apply offers refunding into the wallet

  • wallet

  • passes

  • accounts

  • payments methods

  • rewards & digital offers

Subscriptions & Commerce

  • An enterprise-class product catalogue , allowing allows the brand to easily setup even the most complex product offering, termed or physical

  • Order to fulfill fulfil or order to subscribe with advanced promotions

  • Subscribe on any billing model: pre-pill, payment-driven, post-bill and for multiple frequencies

  • Diverse subscription models: Termed, Usage (real-time charging, allowance based), hybrid termed and usage

  • Subscription support for a diverse product range: from triple play (voice, data, video) to digital services to usage products (IoT, energy, FMCG, HoReCa)

  • Extensive support of global and local payment gateways and the ability to plug in your own local gateways

  • Inventory and device management

  • An enterprise-class provisioning layer for multiple triple play plays and IoT platforms (WIFI, broadband, telephony, OTT video) and the ability to plug in your own local provisioning providers

  • product catalogue

  • order management

  • Subscriptions & Usage

  • Inventory

Business Communities

  • A platform topology, with Platform Owner, Service Owner, Business, Merchants (the business network)

  • B2B Spend: Customers spend their open balance across the business network. Accept the wallet of your partners.

  • B2B Connect. Be a B2B Merchant of another business or enjoy other businesses being your B2B Merchants. Do joined promotions and engage in commerce with your B2B connections

  • B2B Commerce Pools. Publish or auction your idle capacity for partners to sell or provide as a gift, benefit, promotion.

  • B2B Promotion-based aggregation. Your customers subscribe and buy complimentary products from other businesses with the wallet as identity (gym membership, TV subscription) with offers adding discounts to the wallet. Addressing the use case of buy buying from my partner and I add to your wallet part of the better price I negotiated.

  • B2B Commerce-based aggregation. Sell from your product catalogue services and products of 3rd parties; , and take charges as purchase events reconciled to your invoicing.

  • Business Network & B2B

  • Security & Foundation

  • Settlements

Platform core components

In the following table, we can find all the main components of the CRM.COM platform, along with a brief description of their purpose/functionality.

The purpose of this table is to make it clear for each integrator/key user what the main components of the platform are and ultimately have an idea of their main primary functions.

Item

Description

Contacts

Contact is the central process of the software, representing the customer of the businessBusiness. Contacts can be created in 3 ways:

  • Created as part of an import and using the back office API

  • Created via UI back-end

  • Self Service Registration

Customer Events

  • Support for Purchase, achievement, and referral events

  • Customer identification based on contact id, contact code, CIM, gift card number, OTP

Apps & Portals

 Apps & Portals is a utility of CRM.COM that allow allows a key user to configure with no code the business front-end tools with no code: Native APP and Portal.

These front-end tools allow the customers of the businessBusiness, the contacts, to carry out numerous self-service processes such as registering, ordering or buying a subscription.

Communications

Communications Communication is simply a record of a communication with a contact. It can be manually generated by a user, an API, or system generated , either via a Communication Plan or an event-based communication.

System-generated communications are multi-channel, currently supporting Email, SMS, and in-app Push Notifications.

Service Requests

It is a request ticket for service by a contact to the businessBusiness.

Service request requests can be submitted by a back-office user or directly by a contact via self-service APIs (e.g., CRM.COM app or portal).

A service request always belongs to a Queue. A Queue is a CRM.COM user-defined grouping method that is used to group similar service requests (e.g., reward or billing requests)

Analytics for Identity management product

CRM.COM Analytics provide an in-depth analysis of a business’s data aiming in:

  • View the business’s Business’s performance in various aspects such as financials, contacts behavior behaviour (purchases, awarding), as well as performance the implementation of various organization organizations within the business network

  • Enabling in-time decision-making by checking out behavior behaviour patterns such as service churns, MRR

Activities

An Activity is a task that can be scheduled to take place for a Contact and can optionally refer to a Lead, Service Request or Order.

Leads

Leads denote prospective business Business by a contact.

A lead belongs to a queue, which usually represents representing a Sales Force Automation model with predefined stages.

A lead always ends up being won or lost.

Wallet

  • An EMI-grade multi-currency wallet maintaining an open balance per currency and multiple commerce pool balances for a customer of a business

  • Multi-business wallet , allowing a customer allows customers to link their existing wallet to a new business they sign up for. Business still maintains full ownership and control of the business balances.

Passes

A pass is a process that unlocks a gift, top-up or promotion for a contact.

When a pass is redeemed (unlocked), it will either credit money into the contact wallet or activate an instant discount because of an associated offer.

A pass can be either printed or in electronic format (distribution methods).

Accounts

An account is a ledger of financial transactions carried out between the Business and its contacts or the Business and its merchants/service providers. Account basic features are : id, classification, credit term (credit limit, payment terms), currency, primary, and state.

Payment Methods

Payment methods are the acceptable means by which a business can collect money from its contacts , to pay for products or services purchased from the businessBusiness.

Rewards & Digital Offers

Rewards within CRM.COM apply digital offers against a customer event or a CRM.COM-initiated process such as subscription maturity. Rewards award contacts a commerce credit in the CRM.COM wallet.

A key Rewards process of Rewards is the Redeem, which evaluates the purchase event against the existing commerce balance and converts it to an open balance.

Product Catalogue

The product catalogue consists of the list of products that a business is selling, their prices, as well as and promotions applied on to purchasing these products.

A key attribute of a product is the organization that owns the product and , which can be the business Business or a merchant/service provider. The organization that owns the product will also manage it and price it.

Order Management

Orders placed by contacts (B2C/B2B contacts) to purchase physical goods and services offered by the business Business or the business’s Business’s merchants in its business network

An Order is fulfilled by either the business Business or one of the merchants/venues (Delivery, Pick Up, Direct Sale)

An Order follows a Queue that defines its :

  • Sequence The sequence of stages that the order goes through until its completion

  • The Point of no return

  • Milestone invoicing in one or more stages

Subscriptions & Usage

A subscription is a collection of services a Contact subscribes to, billed for on a recurring basisregularly. Apart from the services provided, the subscription also outlines how , and when the Contact will be billed , as well as and the payment terms. In general Generally, a subscription’s main characteristics are: State, Billing day, and Payment method.

A usage service is any service consumed and has to be billed based on the volume consumed, like data, phone calls, fuel, and electricity. A usage service has a measurement unit used in for measuring the consumed volume and a price per measurement unit. A usage service can only be consumed when a contact subscribes to either a termed service or a one-time service.

Inventory (including devices)

  • Business The business has a single Warehouse to keep track of its stockable their stackable physical goods balances. Created on sign up

  • The Warehouse maintains a dimension called locations, which allows stock to be allocated (assigned) to any logical dimension, such as a location in the warehouse, an installer van or a service provider.

  • Stock-able Stockable items are the physical goods for which stock levels are maintained. Only physical goods (traceable or not) can be marked as stockable stackable in their product types.

Business Network & B2B

Business Network is the CRM.COM organization topology, with Platform Owner, Service Owner, Transaction Processor, Business, Merchants, Venues and B2B connections. B2B connections are the Organizations of the business Business that are B2B Merchants or B2B Peers.

Security & Foundation

Security allows the setup of policies governing access and actions permissions to CRM.COM system features, ranging from creating API keys for client-external applications , to setting - up user roles and inviting users. Security settings covers cover all organizations of the CRM.COM Business Network structure (e.g., Cloud Operator, Business, Merchant/Service Provider).

Foundation cover The foundation covers other global functionalities of the CRM.COM Platform like: Automations, Custom fields & forms, Time travel, Approvals, Events & Logs.

Settlements

The process where awards and spend spending are settled between organizations. Award settlement involves debiting the organization that provided the award; either when awarded or when redeemed.Spend settlement involves crediting the organization that the wallet organizati’s open balance was used.

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Detailed A detailed list of business features by Product and associated Component is provided HERE. Referred to as Components master data. Updated on 15 April 2023. Next update is scheduled for July 2023.

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