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Merchants are organisations who The various Organisations within a Business Network are called Merchants or Service Providers depending on your Business Network model. or collaborate with a Business operating a rewards platform. If you are a Merchant, follow Follow this checklist to ensure you have configured CRM5 correctly before going liveCRM.COM correctly. |
GETTING STARTED WITH CRM.COM
As a Merchant/Service Provider, you will be able to configure some areas of the software according to your own needs. However, the majority of the settings and possibly some areas of configuration will have already been completed by the Business itself.✅ Denotes mandatory configuration
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A Business user can configure the basics for organisations within the Business Network by masquerading as one of them. Detailed information can be specified by merchant users themselves. |
MERCHANT DEFINITION
✅(click on the logged-in user user’s name at the top-right-hand-corner of the screen > My Business)
Complete your company information, add your logo, and define your operational details (if applicable). Optionally, define any transaction acquiring points (Transaction Acquiring Points (e.g. POSs) for the Merchant location; this will help identify where purchase transactions are being posted from (for cases where the actual Merchant will be executing payments for goods or services). The Merchant definition information mostly caters to the needs of customer-facing apps/portals in order to provide an overall quality user experience.
SETTINGS
This is not a complete list of settings, but the recommended system settings that could be considered before proceeding with other configurations; for a complete list of settings, refer to the relevant user manual.
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As a Merchant, you will have limited access (as far as configuration is concerned) to certain areas of the system. Therefore, some system options referred to in the user manuals may not be accessible to you. |
SECURITY
(click on logged-in user name at the top-right-hand-corner of the screen > Settings > Security)
User Roles
Define user roles (for your users) and specify permissions for all areas of the system.
Users
Users are members of your team to whom you wish to grant access to CRM.COM (typically a backend user); users perform specific tasks subject to their user role. You can invite users to the system using their email; a user must accept the invitation to gain access to CRM.COM.
SET UP
Most of the setup you'll complete will affect the system's behaviour and, consequently, any customer-facing app/portal, so ensure that these configurations are correct.
(Navigate to these options using the main menu on the left-hand side of the screen)
BUSINESS NETWORK
Venues
Venues are your outlets or selling locations. If you have outlets that will be fulfilling orders, then you will need to define these along with their address information and operating opening hours.
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To make your venues available on the map of the consumer contact app/portal, use Google Places (if available) to select your venue addresses. |
REWARDS
Offers
Define your reward offers (if applicable), providing incentives to improve customer engagement. Every offer type has its own conditions that affect how and when an award will be provided and/or spent. Upload images for your offers to attract consumer attention. Refer to the user manual Reward Schemes & Reward Offers for further information.
COMMERCE
Products
Create your product catalogue – the physical goods and services that you will be selling. Ensure that an image is uploaded for your products, and that an order catalogue is configured for those products that will be available for ordering. Refer to the Commerce user manualsto configure your products and create order catalogues.
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Communication Plans
Create repeating or one-off Communication Plans to re-engage customers or to announce a new offer. Recipients can be selected based on segments (created by the Business), and communications are sent according to the selected channel and language preference of the recipient
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Products Availability determines which products are temporarily unavailable for ordering (e.g. out of stock). Set up these settings at either Merchant and/or Venues level in order for these products to be excluded from the ordering flow in front-end systems. |
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Need more information?Check out our user manuals for explanations of key terms and settings. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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