This guide is designed to help a business This overview is designed to help our partners and prospective customers understand the CRM.COM solution around for online ordering. The guide is set up around a fictitious coffee shop that offers online ordering for delivery and pickup via its mobile appCRM.COM online ordering solution applies to any business interested in delivering physical goods or termed services to a direct client base.
Multiple venues for delivery and pickup
The business has the ability to set up its venues (i.e., shops/outlets) by providing contact as well as industry details for each of them. The business can then specify the different rules that apply per venue, such as different hours supported for delivery or pickup, different menu order catalogues etc.
In addition, for each venue, CRM.COM provides the ability to define a TAP (Transaction Acquiring Point) where devices such as POS systems are specified to record purchase transactions and subsequently present the venue’s performance data.
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🔧 For more information on how to set up your Venues click here.
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Powerful and flexible product catalogue
The business can easily set sets up its product catalog including product images and pricing information.
CRM.COM allows the business to set up its product catalog in an extremely flexible way and define products including their variants (e.g. sizes), modifiers (e.g. sugar, milk), add-ons (e.g. extra espresso shot) etc.
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catalogue in an easy and flexible way by adding product information, images, and pricing as well as any variants, modifiers and add-ons.
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The products which are defined in the backend to be available for ordering are immediately reflected on the mobile app ordering menu front end, complete with their images, components, pricing etc.
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🔧 For more information on how to set up your Products click here.
, allowing for real-time updates of the online ordering menu as and when required.
Providing extra incentives to customers via reward offers
Reward offers provide incentives to customers to improve their engagement with the business, such as performing more frequent orders or purchases or of higher value. Each offer defines a goal that customers must reach in order to be awarded. Awards earned via offers end up in the customer’s eWallet in the form of conditional cashback, which can be spent on subsequent purchases (or instantly as an instant spend) either in-store or via an online order.
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Multiple methods of payment are accepted
The business has the option to can define the payment methods of payment accepted when a customer submits an online order (i.e., card, cash, eWallet etc.). Cashback awards earned from offers either in-store or via online orders can be used to pay for online orders, thus giving customers extra incentives to use the business’s own online ordering platform. The CRM.🔧 For more information on how to set up your Payment Methods click here.COM Wallet can be used as a payment method with CRM.COM being the payment operator.
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fulfilment policies
The business has the option to set up the policies around online ordering for delivery and , pickup or direct sale and specify the different rules that apply per venue , such as minimum cart amount, delivery charge any delivery charges or other expenses, estimated order completion time etc.
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🔧 For more information on how to set up your Fulfillment Policies click here.
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Easily configure your own branded front-end
The business has the flexibility to configure the look and feel of the mobile app, web portal or mobile pass and set it them up according to its brand in regards to font and colors around logos, colours and images and set up a beautiful mobile app as online ordering tool easily per its brand identity.
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online availability
The business has the option to enable or disable turn the online ordering option on or off at any given time so as to be available or unavailable to customers via the mobile app respectivelyfront end.
CRM.COM also allows businesses to specify the supported supply methods, i.e., whether they support online ordering for delivery and/or pickup, pickup or direct sale. If required, the business can temporarily disable turn off ordering for either of the supply methods (e.g. if the store is too busy, if a there’s no delivery person is not available for deliveries etc.).
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🔧 For more information on how to set up your Applications click here.
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Multi-channel order
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fulfilment
There are multiple ways to accept and fulfill fulfil an order. Either the order goes directly to the POS (full POS integration required) , or is printed on a printing machine, is sent via email to a person in charge or it’s is accessed via the CRM.COM backend orders page. The order acceptance, as well as the rest of the order lifecycle, can be communicated to the customer via real-time in-app notifications.
CRM.COM provides a lot of flexibility to easily efficiently manage the lifecycle of an order with a simply drag-and drop from one state to another until it’s fulfilled.
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🔧 For more information on how to use Orders click here-drop change of states.
Clever automations
Automations can be set up for a broad set of areas in CRM.COM, including automated customer notifications sent to customer when certain events trigger the automationsor webhooks that are triggered on events such as new orders. For example, or on order acceptance or completeness, an in-app notification is sent to customers in real-time to stay informed at any time regarding inform them of the progress of their order.
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Fully configurable mobile app
When all the setup is in place the business is ready to accept online orders via the mobile app in a friendly, quick and easy manner.
The mobile app is fully configurable from the CRM.COM backend and has a highly intuitive UX.
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Behind the scenes
CRM.COM handles the whole process around an online order from the moment the order is placed until the payment is confirmed; money is deducted from the customer’s bank card and credited to the coffee shop’s account.
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