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If you have registered as a Service Provider in collaboration with a Business, your business focuses on Subscriptions & Commerce , then follow this checklist to ensure that you have configured CRM.COM correctly before going live.

GETTING STARTED WITH CRM.COM

As a Service Provider, you will be able to configure some areas of the software according to your own needs. However, most of the settings and possibly some configuration areas will have already been completed by the Business itself.

✅ Denotes mandatory configuration.

SERVICE PROVIDER DEFINITION

(click on the logged-in user 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 (POSs) for the Service Provider location; this will help identify where purchase transactions are being posted from (for cases where the actual Service Provider will be executing payments for goods or services provided). The Service Provider 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.

As a Service Provider, 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 certain 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

Service Points

Service Points 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 hours.

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To make your Service Points available on the map of the consumer app, use Google Places (if available) to select your location addresses.

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

Set up your Communication Plans to interact with your customers or to announce a new promotion. 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

Note that you will also need to reference the “Go Live Checklist” in order to ensure that you have completed the basic settings as a whole.

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Check our Getting Started on Repeat Commerce guide in the Help Center. This guided tour, takes you through the minimum configuration needed to get you business up running quickly.

Product Catalogue

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. It’s important to note the various options that CRM.COM offers when it comes to setting up products:

  • Manually in the back-end which is a suitable solution for small business with a limited catalogue.

  • The Import Data utility which you can easily prepare your products information in a file and import products and their prices.

  • The Product Synchronisation Web API which can be used to again import a big volume of products from a third-party system. This option requires additional development by an integrator.

CRM.COM’s Web APIs can always be used by integrators to develop your business customised products import into the platform. Refer to the Commerce user manuals for more information on setting up the product catalogue.

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It’s strongly suggested that when creating products into CRM.COM you also consider setting up their prices as well. CRM.COM’s tools allow you to create a product and also its base price.

PROMOTIONS

Optionally, set up your Promotions that will be automatically applied when your contacts place their orders. Note that Promotions are also applied when contacts amend their subscriptions by either changing or adding more services to their subscriptions.

Subscriptions & Billing

CORE BUSINESS RULES

(Settings > Subscriptions & Billing)

Cancellation Policies

Define your business policies when it comes to when your subscribers can cancel their services.

Change Service Policies

Define your business policies when it comes to when your subscribers can change their services i.e. when a service can be upgraded and downgraded.

Service Delivery

Service Delivery is CRM.COM’s main set or processes that manage how your business delivers services to your contacts. So this essential piece of rules determines what keeps a service effective, when is deactivated and when services are automatically cancelled.

Billing Rules & Calendar Billing

Your business Billing Rules determine CRM.COM’s billing behaviour; when services are billed, characteristics of the billed period and how financial transactions are issued. Make sure to set up the rules according to your business billing requirements since changing them after going live might cause inconsistencies in services' billing periods.

Usage Billing Rules & Usage Charge Limits

Your business rules when it comes to usage-based billing. This set of setting scan be modified at any point in time with no side-effects in your contacts1' billing.

Orders

Order Fulfilment Policies

Determine how your business will fulfill orders placed by your contacts. A default policy is already configured that covers all supply methods and all of the organisations in your Business Network. Set up additional policies to differentiate fulfillment flows based on these two major factors, if needed.

Integrations

When it comes to Subscriptions & Commerce product, CRM.COM supports two major Integration capabilities.

PAYMENT GATEWAYS

If your business accepts payments from your contacts for their orders or for recurring billing purposes, then enable a Payment Gateway service integration to receive online payments. CRM.COM offers the following options:

  • Enable the CRM.COM Wallet Gateway to get your business start accepting payments by just enabling our gateway.

  • Enable one of CRM.COM’s supported Payment Gateway integrations. This option requires your business to create a merchant account on these services.

  • Implement a Payment Gateway plugin and integrate it to the platform using CRM.COm’s Integration Web APIs available here. Note that CRM.COM supports various Payment Flows which are described here.

PROVISIONING PROVIDERS

If your business is using a third party system to provision and authorise services to your contacts to various devices (OTT or CAS systems, with/out devices) then CRM.COM provides the following options:

  • Enable one of CRM.COM’s supported Provisioning Providers integrations or

  • Implement a Provisioning Provider plugin and integrate it to the platform using CRM.COM’s Integration Web APIs available here. Discover various Subscription flows in the Integrator Hub by clicking here.

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Need more information?

Check out our user manuals for explanations of key terms and settings.

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