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1.Disclaimer
Homespot is a fictional retailer. The Homespot demo scenario illustrates how you can use the CRM.COM software for Rewards for a retailer, a restaurant and a coffee store. All persons portrayed in the demo are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental. Data and product names are also fictitious.
2. Introduction
Homespot is a large value-driven retailer in Cyprus with a passion for life at home. Homespot is the perfect place to spend some quality time with the whole family as it combines shopping, dining and entertainment for all ages. It is essential for Homespot to facilitate purchases from repeat customers and establish a core audience of loyal customers in order to increase its profits but also to reduce its risk and increase the power of its position within the market of furniture and other home related goods. Therefore, the company wants to introduce reward offers that will have a significant impact on the customer’s decision making and spending.
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. Homespot
The Homespot store consists of the below:
- The main store with home goods
- A restaurant
- A cafeteria (Coffeespot)
- A kids area
4. Complete Solution
The Homespot demo includes the below:
- POS (Kounta)
Online real time transactions through Kounta, a web-based electronic Point of Sale - Web Portal
Online rewards management for the rewards participant - Mobile App
eWallet and rewards management through a smartphone for the rewards participant
CRM.COM is integrated with leading POS, E-Commerce sites, Card Terminals and more and via the CRM.COM Web API it can be easily integrated with the one you prefer.
Note: More information on Kounta can be found here: www.kounta.com A web portal and mobile app are also integrated and available where rewards participants can view and manage their rewards easily via a computer or smartphone respectively.
4. The Concept
The concept of the Homespot demo is to simulate transactions via the POS whilst the rewards participant gets awarded in real time, automatically. Additionally, the reward participants can manage their rewards via the web portal and mobile app.
5. Processes For Your Customers
5.1 Registration
Customers can sign up for Rewards on their own via the web portal or mobile app.
5.1.1 Web Portal Registration
Click here
Fill in the fields with the required details and click on Register.
5.1.2 Mobile App Registration
Download and open the mobile app.
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Fill in the fields with the required details and click on SIGN UP
5.2. Log In As A Rewards Participant
Once you register you can log in as a rewards participant via the web portal here or mobile app using the email and password you specified during registration and clicking LOGIN.
Note: You can log in as the demo rewards participant using the below credentials:
username: eric@crm.com
password: 123456
5.3 View Available Offers
Once you log in, as a rewards participant you can view all the available running offers applicable to you. By clicking on an offer you can view more details or check your progress towards a specific offer and see how close or far you are to reaching your target (where applicable).
5.4 Make A Purchase
Once you are informed about the running offers you can make your purchases. Eligible purchases will give you the appropriate awards according to the specified reward offers and the reward amounts.
The below is a transaction via the Kounta POS for a hot meal and a soft drink at Homespot's restaurant.
5.5 View Awards
Following a transaction, you can check your account via the web portal or mobile app to see if any of the available offers were triggered and gave you any awards.
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And at any point you can view your updated wallet balance.
5.6 Make a spend
After you check how you can spend your awarded cashback, you can spend your awards at the POS on one of your purchases.
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The POS presents an option "Pay with CRM.COM Rewards"
5.7 View Spends
Following a spend transaction, you can check your account via the web portal or mobile app to see your spend.
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And at any point you can view your updated wallet balance.
5.8 View Purchases
At any point you can view the purchases you have performed at Homespot.
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The mobile app allows you to view your purchases of the last 1/6/12 months.
5.9 View Conditional / Unconditional Balance
In the case where you have conditional cashback into your wallet you can view details on how to spend your awards.
My Rewards > My Rewards (web portal)
Home (mobile app)
5.10 View Progress Towards A Reward Offer
Certain reward offer types allow the participant to keep track of his progress towards a specific offer until the target is reached and the award is given. Such offers are punchcard-like offers and progress bar offers.
5.11 View Notifications
Notifications in CRM.COM are being sent out to rewards participants automatically following specified performed events (i.e., registration, awards, spends, new offers and more).
Notifications are available via the web portal and mobile app. Notifications can also be sent via email and SMS.
5.12 View/Update Personal Details
You can view and update your personal details via the web portal and mobile app.
My Account > Settings
5.13 Refer A Friend
You can refer a friend to join Rewards via the web portal and mobile app.
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Enter the email addresses of those you want to refer and click Send / SUBMIT
6. Processes For Your Marketers
6.1 Log In As A Marketer
To log in as a marketer use the below access details:
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username: homespotdemo
password: homespot123!
6.2 Create A New Reward Scheme
Navigate to: Rewards > Manage Reward Schemes
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Fill in the details of the reward scheme and click SAVE
6.3 Create A Customer Segment
Navigate to Foundation > Segmentation > Manage Segments
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Segments can then be used for marketing campaigns or targeted offers.
6.4 Set Up An Email Campaign
Navigate to CRM > Communications > Notifications > Notification Types
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Select Run Now to run the campaign once or schedule the campaign to run repeatedly or on a specific day and time.
Click SAVE
6.5 Schedule A Report
Navigate to Foundation > Analytics > Run Reports
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On the Scheduling Settings define if the report will run repeatedly and how often
Click SAVE
6.6 View A Dashboard
Navigate to Foundation > Analytics > View Dashboards
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Some charts allow the operator to drill down to more details by clicking on the desired chart pieces.
6.7 Retrieve A Rewards Participant (360° View)
CRM.COM allows the operator to have a full view of a rewards participant with all his activity in a single page.
Navigate to CRM > Communication Centre > Access Communication Centre
Retrieve a rewards participant using the provided search box and hit Enter
As soon as the participant is retrieved, all his details, data, transactions and rewards activity will be filled in the screen automatically
7. Get Your Partners To Join Too
A partner can be a separate merchant who you've done a collaboration with in order to participate to your reward scheme.
7.1 Log In As A Partner
A partner (another merchant) can join the Rewards Scheme as part of a collaboration with the scheme's owner. The contribution towards the awards is specified and the partner can set up his own offers with restricted access to the CRM.COM software.
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username: merchant
password: 123456m
7.2 Create A New Reward Offer
Navigate to: Rewards > Manage Reward Schemes
Open the Reward Scheme you created.
ACTIONS > ADD REWARD OFFER
Fill in the main information of the reward offer
Fill in the award conditions of the reward offer. The award conditions are the conditions that need to be met in order for the award to be given to the participant
Fill in the spend conditions of the reward offer. The spend conditions are the conditions that need to be met in order for the award to be spent by the participant
The Marketing Information provides all the offer information when presented via a web portal and mobile app.
Click SAVE
To activate a reward offer, open the offer
Actions > SET AS EFFECTIVE
Note: CRM.COM supports the available reward offer classifications: Utilize Free Capacity, Reward Sign Ups, Reward Referrals, Increase Revenue Transaction Based, Increase Revenue Product Based, Reward Loyalty Transaction Amount Based, Reward Loyalty Transaction Number Based, Reward Loyalty Transaction Item Quantity Based, Reward Behavior, Reward On Birthday, Reward On Name Day, Reward Subscription Maturity, Reward Personal Data Completeness, Reward Achievements, Reward Financial Achievements, Reward Financial Statement and Just Money.
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