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Introduction

This document provides an overview of how the CRM.COM platform powers the membership economy and ultimately helps proud brands evolve from regular transactions to personalize customer economy, enabling businesses to transition from standard transactions to personalised offerings and B2B communities.

Following we present In the following sections, we outline the product structure and the primary components of the CRM.COM Platform Products structure and the main Platform components/modules with a brief description. The appropriate combination of these elements/modules can easily deploy in a self-service manner, all the , accompanied by brief descriptions. The strategic combination of these components empowers users to independently deploy the full spectrum of services offered by the CRM.COM platformThe purpose of this document is to enable the integrator/key user and provide an overview of what the .

Intended for integrators and key users, this document offers insights into the CRM.COM platform can do in terms of 's capabilities across the core functional areas of the its four products offered and targeting , tailored to various vertical industries.

CRM.COM Product Positioning

CRM.COM powers 100% of the technology and business model required to run your organization as a membership community(B2B2C), providing four products that can be setup as a stepped is a complete solution that caters to all your needs as a customer focused organisation that aims to increase repeat monetisation. It offers four distinct products, which can be configured as part of an integrated journey:

  1. Identity Management: Onboard Efficiently onboard and manage your customers, provide omni channel self service access, capture purchases with a versatile wallet spend model, segment . Provide seamless omnichannel self-service access. Utilise a flexible wallet spend model to capture purchases and segment your customer base into micro-personas.

  2. Commerce Wallet and Digital Promotions: Promotion Create and manage promotional and reward offers targeting tailored to specific customer segments and a . The commerce wallet keeping a maintains commerce and open balance balances and all supports various customer payment methods.

  3. Subscriptions and Commerce: An Leverage an advanced product catalogue and , versatile ordering mechanisms and a powerful robust subscription platform supporting from the simple termed service to XaaS to advanced usage based for IoT and triple play. CRM.COM handles from straightforward termed services to XaaS (Anything as a Service) and intricate usage-based triple play and IoT scenarios, including triple-play services.

  4. Business Communities: Setup Establish your business Network. Enhance network to enhance your brand and enrich the services offered expand your service offerings. Engage with B2B community services and products. Setup joined , fostering collaborations and synergies. Jointly create promotions with your partners and aggregate a wider array of services and products.

CRM.COM provides an end-to-end solution for running your customer economy effectively and efficiently, with the flexibility to configure these products to meet your unique needs.

CRM.COM Platform - The

big pictureBelow we describe the structure

Big Picture

Here, we outline the components of the CRM.COM platform , regarding the 4 Products, associated features/processes and key related S/W componentsand its four products, their corresponding features and processes and the essential software components that play a pivotal role.

4 Products and Key Features/

process

processes covered

In the The following table we present presents how the CRM.COM Platform deploy deploys the membership customer economy concept through its products product journey and supported functionality (e.g. processes , and components). Using this table, any integration/key user can easily understand what services are supported and how they are deployed.

Membership Product

Key features and process coverage

Components/Modules

Identity Management

  • Identity management and self-service API

Ready
  • The ready-made app, portal and mobile passes; app and portal published by the service owner

  • Transaction Processor and POS integration capturing customer purchases and

spend
  • spending requests

  • Segment customers into multiple micro-personas using the advanced CRM.COM embedded BI

  • contacts

  • customer events

  • apps & portals

  • communications

  • service requests

  • analytics (identity management)

  • activities

  • leads

Commerce Wallet and Digital Promotions

  • CRM.COM wallet

,
  • maintains customer open balance, business open balance, and business commerce balance

  • Passes (gift, top-up) crediting the wallet

  • Promotion (instant) and reward (accumulated) offers provide discount or commerce balance in customer wallet at point of customer interaction based on historic and current purchases

  • Friction-less flows with promotion
    • 's wallet

    • Fintech wallet with top-up, transfer, payout, spend specifically designed to transact at your point of sales or those of your B2B community

    • Frictionless flows with promotion-based aggregation. Capture the purchase and apply offers refunding into the wallet

    • wallet

    • passes

    • accounts

    • payments methods

    • rewards & digital offers

    Subscriptions & Commerce

    • An enterprise-class product catalogue

    , allowing
    • allows the brand to easily

    setup
    • set up even the most complex product offering, termed or physical.

    • Order to

    fulfill
    • fulfil or order to subscribe

    with
    • advanced promotions

    • Subscribe on any billing model: pre-pill, payment-driven, post-bill and for multiple frequencies

    • Diverse subscription models: Termed, Usage (real-time charging, allowance based), hybrid termed and usage

    • Subscription support for a diverse product range: from triple play (voice, data, video) to digital services to usage products (IoT, energy, FMCG, HoReCa)

    • Extensive support of global and local payment gateways and the ability to plug in your

    own
    • local gateways

    • Inventory and device management

    • An enterprise-class provisioning layer for multiple triple

    play
    • plays and IoT platforms (WIFI, broadband, telephony, OTT video) and the ability to plug in your

    own
    • local provisioning providers

    • product catalogue

    • order management

    • Subscriptions & Usage

    • Inventory

    Business Communities

    • A platform topology, with Platform Owner, Service Owner, Business, Merchants (the business network)

    • B2B Spend: Customers spend their open balance across the business network. Accept the wallet of

    your partners
    • another business.

    • B2B Connect. Be a B2B Merchant of another business or enjoy other businesses being your B2B Merchants. Do joined promotions and engage in commerce with your B2B connections

    • B2B Commerce Pools. Publish or auction your idle capacity for partners to sell or provide as a gift, benefit, or promotion.

    • B2B Promotion-based aggregation. Your customers subscribe and buy complimentary products from other businesses with the wallet as identity (gym membership, TV subscription) with offers adding discounts to the wallet. Addressing the use case of

    buy
    • purchasing from my partner and

    I add to your wallet part
    • contributing a portion of the better price I negotiated to your wallet

    • B2B Commerce-based aggregation. Sell from your product catalogue services and products of 3rd parties

    ;
    • , and take charges as purchase events reconciled to your invoicing.

    • Business Network & B2B

    • Security & Foundation

    • Settlements

    Platform core components

    In the following table we , you can find all the main components of the CRM.COM platform, along with a brief description of their purpose/functionality.

    The purpose of this table is to make it clear for each integrator/key user what the main components of the platform are and ultimately have an idea of their main primary functions.

    Item

    Description

    Contacts

    Contact is the central process of the software, representing the customer of the

    business

    Business. Contacts can be created in 3 ways:

    • Created as part of an import and using the back office API

    • Created via UI back-end

    • Self Service Registration

    Customer Events

    • Support for Purchase, achievement, and referral events

    • Customer identification based on contact id, wallet code, contact code, CIM, gift card number, OTP

    Apps & Portals

     Apps & Portals is a utility of CRM.COM that

    allow

    allows a key user to configure

    with no code

    the business front-end tools with no code: Native APP and Portal.

    These front-end tools allow the customers of the

    business

    Business, the contacts, to carry out numerous self-service processes such as registering, ordering or buying a subscription.

    Communications

    Communications is simply a record of a communication with a contact

    Communication with your contacts with easy to built personalised html templates. It can be

    manually

    generated by

    a user, an API, or system generated, either

    via a Communication Plan or an event-based communication.

    System-generated communications are multi-channel, currently supporting Email, SMS, and in-app Push Notifications.

    Service Requests

    It is a request ticket for service by a contact to the

    business

    Business.

    Service

    request

    requests can be submitted by a back-office user or directly by a contact via self-service APIs (e.g., CRM.COM app or portal).

    A service request always belongs to a Queue. A Queue is a CRM.COM user-defined grouping method that is used to group similar service requests (e.g., reward or billing requests)

    Analytics for Identity management product

    CRM.COM Analytics provide an in-depth analysis of a

    business’s

    business's data aiming in:

    • View the

    business’s
    • Business's performance in various aspects such as financials, contacts

    behavior
    • behaviour (purchases, awarding), as well as

    performance
    • the implementation of various

    organization
    • organisations within the business network

    • Enabling in-time decision-making by checking out

    behavior
    • behaviour patterns such as service churns, MRR

    Activities

    An Activity is a task that can be scheduled to take place for a Contact and can optionally refer to a Lead, Service Request or Order.

    Leads

    Leads denote prospective

    business

    Business by a contact.

    A lead belongs to a queue,

    which

    usually

    represents

    representing a Sales Force Automation model with predefined stages.

    A lead always ends up being won or lost.

    Wallet

    • An EMI-grade multi-currency wallet maintaining an open balance per currency and multiple commerce pool balances for a customer of a business

    Multi
    • The multi-business wallet

    , allowing a customer
    • allows customers to link their existing wallet to a new business they sign up for. Business still maintains full ownership and control of the business balances.

    Passes

    A pass is a process that unlocks a gift, top-up or promotion for a contact.

    When a pass is redeemed (unlocked), it will either credit money into the contact wallet or activate an instant discount because of an associated offer.

    A pass can be either printed or in electronic format (distribution methods).

    Accounts

    An account is a ledger of financial transactions carried out between the Business and its contacts or the Business and its merchants/service providers. Account basic features are

    :

    id, classification, credit term (credit limit, payment terms), currency, primary, and state.

    Payment Methods

    Payment methods are the acceptable means by which a business can collect money from its contacts

    ,

    to pay for products or services purchased from the

    business

    Business.

    Rewards & Digital Offers

    Rewards within CRM.COM apply digital offers against a customer event or a CRM.COM-initiated process such as subscription maturity. Rewards award contacts a commerce credit in the CRM.COM wallet.

    A key Rewards process

    of Rewards

    is the Redeem, which evaluates the purchase event against the existing commerce balance and converts it to an open balance.

    Product Catalogue

    The product catalogue consists of the list of products

    that

    a business

    is selling

    sells, their prices,

    as well as

    and promotions applied

    on

    to purchasing these products.

    A key product attribute

    of a product

    is the

    organization

    organisation that owns the

    product and

    Product, which can be the

    business

    Business or a merchant/service provider. The

    organization

    organisation that owns the

    product

    Product will also manage it and price it.

    Order Management

    Orders placed by contacts (B2C/B2B contacts) to purchase physical goods and services offered by the

    business

    Business or the

    business’s

    Business's merchants in its business network

    An Order is fulfilled by either the

    business

    Business or one of the merchants/venues (Delivery, Pick Up, Direct Sale)

    An Order follows a Queue that defines its :

    Sequence
    • The sequence of stages that the order goes through until its completion

    • The

    Point
    • point of no return

    • Milestone invoicing in one or more stages

    Subscriptions & Usage

    A subscription is a collection of services a Contact subscribes to, billed for

    on a recurring basis

    regularly. Apart from the services provided, the subscription

    also

    outlines how

    ,

    and when the Contact will be billed

    , as well as

    and the payment terms.

    In general a subscription’s

    Generally, a subscription's main characteristics are

    :

    State, Billing day, and Payment method.

    A usage service is any service consumed and has to be billed based on the volume consumed, like data, phone calls, fuel, and electricity. A usage service has a measurement unit

    used in

    for measuring the consumed volume and a price per measurement unit. A usage service can only be consumed when a contact subscribes to

    either

    a termed

    service

    or

    a

    one-time service.

    Inventory (including devices)

    • The Business has a single Warehouse to keep track of

    its stockable
    • their stackable physical goods balances. Created on sign up

    • The Warehouse maintains a dimension called locations, which allows stock to be allocated (assigned) to any logical dimension, such as a location in the

    warehouse
    • Warehouse, an installer van or a service provider.

    Stock-able
    • Stackable items are the physical goods for which stock levels are maintained. Only physical goods (traceable or not) can be marked as

    stockable
    • stackable in their product types.

    Business Network & B2B

    Business Network is the CRM.COM

    organization

    organisation topology, with Platform Owner, Service Owner, Transaction Processor, Business, Merchants, Venues and B2B connections. B2B connections are the Organizations of the

    business

    Business that are B2B Merchants or B2B Peers.

    Security & Foundation

    Security allows

    the setup of

    setting policies governing access and actions permissions to CRM.COM system features, ranging from creating API keys for client-external applications

    ,

    to setting

    -

    up user roles and inviting users. Security settings

    covers

    cover all

    organizations

    organisations of the CRM.COM Business Network structure (e.g., Cloud Operator, Business, Merchant/Service Provider).

    Foundation cover

    The foundation covers other global functionalities of the CRM.COM Platform like

    : Automations

    automation, Custom fields & forms, Time travel, Approvals, Events & Logs.

    Settlements

    The process where awards and

    spend

    spending are settled between

    organizations. Award settlement involves debiting the organization that provided the award; either when awarded or when redeemed.Spend settlement involves crediting the organization that the wallet open balance was used.

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    Detailed A detailed list of business features by Product and associated Component is provided HERE. Referred to as Components master data . Updated and updated on 15 April 2023. Next The next update is scheduled for July 2023.

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