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Understand the usage of Rewards within CRM.COM |
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What are Rewards?
Rewards module allows merchants to award conditional or unconditional cash back based on the complete spend transaction, where cash (when conditional) can be spent on specific products at specific times and at specific channels. Via the Rewards module you can set up all your business specific Reward Offers, create Reward participants and assign Access Tokens to each one for security, execute batch runs and handle both award and spend transactions initiated by Reward participants.
Rewards Glossary
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Reward Offers | Reward offers are used to:
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Rewards Participants | The customers who have signed up for rewards or have been automatically selected to participate | ||||||
Access Tokens | Access tokens are used to identify a customer, user or app that can access CRM.COM and authenticate them while accessing the system | ||||||
Award Reward Transactions | Award Rewards Transactions are used to award a Rewards Participant, for a specific amount of money that was provided by a reward offer, and credit the Rewards Participants wallet for that specific amount. Visit Viewing & Cancelling Award Rewards Transactions for more information | ||||||
Spend Reward Transactions | Spend Reward Transactions are used to spend a specific amount of money, that was awarded by a reward offer, and debit the Rewards Participants wallet for that specific amount. Visit Viewing & Cancelling Spend Rewards Transactions for more information | ||||||
Award Expiration Transactions
| Award Expiration Transactions are used to expire an awarded amount given to a rewards participant by debiting the reward participant's wallet. Award Expiration Transactions are generated because the reward participant's awarded amount expires due to Reward Award Offer Validity period. Visit Viewing & Cancelling Award Expiration Transactions for more information | ||||||
Reward Settlements
| Reward Settlement Runs evaluate customer events and spend transactions in order to debit or credit the related Organizational Unit's Accounts Receivable (the Merchant account). | ||||||
Customer Events | Customer Events are financial and marketing events performed by customers and are registered within CRM.COM in order to be rewarded or additionally processed by other functions of CRM.COM | ||||||
Merchant
| The Unit which is included in Reward Offers' Organizational Unit Conditions as either as Award or Spend Condition. The Unit itself might be included in these conditions, or the Unit's Group. In addition, the merchant is the Unit defined on Customer Events and Spend Requests. |
Rewards Key Processes and Concepts
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Ending Rewards Scheme Participation | An agent can end a Rewards Participant's participation on a scheme by removing the scheme from the Participating Schemes section | ||||||||||||||
Evaluating Customer Events | Customer events are used in order to evaluate if a customer should be awarded or request spending an specific awarded amount of money. Evaluating Customer Events to be Awarded & Awarding Reward Offers are applied on customer events of the following types
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Evaluating Spend Request Customer Events | Customer events are used in order to evaluate if a customer should be awarded or request spending an specific awarded amount of money. Evaluating Spend Request Customer Events & Spending Awarded Amount are applied on customer events of the following type
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Batch Process Reward Offer Evaluation versus Batch Process & Interactively | A reward offer related to customer events can be evaluated, and thus create reward award transactions in 2 occasions:
The option to allow both Batch and Interactive processing is only available for the following Reward Offer Types:
For the rest of the offer types the evaluation can only be done on Batch mode, via the Rewards Run | ||||||||||||||
Instant Spent
| There exists 2 models you can choose from with regards to the exchange of the customer's awards. Model 1 - Instant Spent
Awards are added to the loyalty account and can be spent at a later stage upon the customer's request. | ||||||||||||||
Providing Awards either on the whole amount or per product sold on transaction based Reward Offers
| The amount or percentage to be awarded is set on the Reward Offer. As a general rule, when a transaction is completed, if the Award Conditions are met then the award is provided on the whole amount. An additional option is available, where the award can be provided per item sold within a transaction. i.e. if within a transaction you have 5 different products or 5 items of the same product, then the award will be provided once for every product.
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Previewing Awards on Purchase Customer Events
| Many CRM.COM Reward Offers are directly related to Purchase Customer Event, meaning, awards will be granted based on a Purchase Customer Event, given that the offer conditions are met. An option is available (ONLY VIA WEB API) to preview awarded amount information, before the purchase customer event is submitted. In greater detail, using the Preview function the following information is available:
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Rewards Network Characteristics
Network Characteristics define the level of access for each record, i.e. Whether it will be available for selection, for viewing or editing etc.
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Award Expiration Transactions
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Rewards Related Modules
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Access Tokens | Access Tokens are used to identify a customer, user or app that can access CRM.COM and be able to receive or spend rewards |
Customer Events | Rewards can be Customer Event Initiated. Active Customer Event definition must be configured. Customer Events module should be fully understood before proceeding with Rewards |
Wallets | Wallets serve as the customer's loyalty accounts. Awards and Spend Transactions cause Wallet Transactions. An active Wallet Definition must be configured |
Products | Products can be used to award or spend rewards |
Accounts Receivable | Rewards Participants is related with an account |
Communications | Communications can be send to customer related to their rewards participants, award and spend transactions |
Rewards - Business Examples
The following section provides business examples to help you understand how CRM.COM Rewards module is used.
Set up a reward offer for liking the company's facebook page
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Business Requirement Company ZX would like to set up a reward offer for liking their Facebook page CRM.COM Solution
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Provide Instant Discount on an item basis -
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Business Requirement Company ZX would like to provide a 10% discount on each Product sold of type " accessories" at the time of the purchase CRM.COM Solution
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Provide Instant Discount on a complete transaction -
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Business Requirement Company ZX would like to make €10 discount on the total amount on any purchases made on Hardware CRM.COM Solution
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Award Loyal Subscribers for Rewards Participation
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Business Requirement Company ZX would like to award with 5 Euros the Rewards Participants who have been subscribers for a continuous year and participate in marketing schemes CRM.COM Solution
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Configure and Reward Existing Customers for Referring Customers
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Business Requirement Company ZX provides to each subscriber, €5.00 to be spent on Non Traceable Physical Goods (i.e. USB, Antenna e.t.c), for every new customer they refer. An existing customer, Jessie Black, has registered 5 new subscribers, 3 of which where awarded by another reward offer and 2 that have not been awarded CRM.COM Solution
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Configure and Execute a Award Expiration Transactions Run Definition
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Business Requirement Company ZX would like to add expiration date on the Awarded Rewards so that Award Transactions can be spent only while are valid and not after their expiration date. Also, each month the company would like to Cancel the expired awards so that no customer can use the awarded amount which has been expired. CRM.COM Solution
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