Rewards Core Features

REWARDS CORE

Issue Key

Summary

Description

Issue Type

Release

V5-1436

Ability to upload images for reward tiers

Business users should be able to upload one marketing image for each reward tier

Improvement

5.4.1.0

V5-1392

Rewards events back office feature

Ability to view all rewards events (purchase, referral, signup, achievement, just money, lottery, profile completion) and how each event performed and processed (its awards, any spends, any cancellations.

New Feature

5.4.2.0

V5-1391

New APIs for rewards events

New reward events APIs to be used by back office roles and functions to reconcile and audit reward activity.

New Feature

5.4.2.0

V5-1286

The default configuration for enabling reward tiers

Enable Reward tiering by default upon the creation of a new business

Improvement

5.4.3.0

V5-1188

Ability to have additional recurring options on reward achievement offer types

Ability to have additional recurring options on reward achievement offer types, i.e. run every 1 hour

Improvement

Candidate Features

V5-1105

Default Automatic Spend Conditions

Ability to configure (per Business) default contact automatic spend conditions and set them to each newly registered contacts

New Feature

Candidate Features

V5-1056

Back-End Reduction on the default payment method

The ability for back-end reduction to refund first on the payment method of the purchase, otherwise on the primary payment method (if allows a refund)

Improvement

5.3.1.1

V5-1047

Wallet Fee Core Behaviour Enhancements

Wallet fees should be applied prior to spending calculation (reward offer resolution), where fees are applied before spending, and spend is applied for award amount or wallet balance, whatever is less

Improvement

5.3.2.0

V5-975

Spending Preferences Enhancements

Ability to set and retrieve additional auto-spend preferences that will enhance the contact's experience via applications

Improvement

5.3.5.0

V5-958

Reward Offer Evaluation Enhancements

Rewards core behaviour should be enhanced to exclude performance offers from best offer restrictions. In addition (based on user setup), the reward offer evaluation should be enhanced to support no awarding events that contacts used commerce wallet balance (excluding instant discounts)

Improvement

5.3.1.0

V5-954

Auto Reward Schemes Sign-Up Enhancement

Ability to sign up existing contacts to new auto signup reward schemes via a back-end process

Improvement

Candidate Features

V5-887

Ability to award and spend at the time of ordering

Contacts will have the ability to use their wallet credit (open and commerce) plus a payment method for the remaining amount (cash or card) during ordering, and at the same time (via automation) to be awarded and spent (automatic/instant) via back-end reduction.

Improvement

5.3.0.0

V5-808

Ability to retrieve organisation tags from reward offers APIs

New organisation tag(s) attribute on list reward offers APIs

Improvement

5.3.0.0

V5-664

Back-End Reduction & Refunds

Ability to refund contacts for back-end spends

New Feature

5.3.0.0

V5-660

Ability to generate purchase events from a financial transaction and award them

Ability via automation to post a purchase event when an invoice is posted and post a credit note when a purchase customer event is voided

Story

5.3.0.0

V5-45

Rewards Tiers

A tiering system can be configured whereby contacts can be classified based on their purchase behaviour. During a tiered review, a contact can advance to the next level, remain at the same level or revert to the previous tier level based on their purchases within the specified period. 

Story

5.1.0.0

V5-44

Reward Resolution

Reward resolution allows a business to configure how its contacts will be awarded in cases where they may be eligible to be awarded from more than one offer.

Available options are - to award the contact from:

All matched offers
An award from every offer across all reward schemes that the contact participates in can result in multiple offers per reward scheme.

The best offer
A single award from the offer provides the highest awarded amount across all reward schemes that the contact participates in.

The best offer from each scheme
The contact will be awarded the highest offer from each reward scheme (one offer per reward scheme) that the contact participates in. 

Story

5.1.0.0

V5-43

Spend Reduction Method

The reduction Method defines how the amount requested to be spent by the contact during a purchase event will be deducted from the total amount to be paid.

There are two reduction methods:

Front-end Reduction is made by a front-end system (e.g. POS) by instantly applying the reduction to the total amount to be paid by the contact. Hence the customer pays the reduced amount.

Back-end Reduction is made by a back-end system (e.g. PayPal) where the contact pays the full amount, and they are credited through a payment gateway system or by generating a refund voucher.

In the context of Rewards (single Merchant and multi-merchant environment), the reduction method may vary per Merchant depending on the integration and the API used to post-purchase customer events.

Story

5.2.0.0

V5-42

Rewards Settlement

Ability to define merchant agreements and perform a reward settlement process

  • setup reward settlement

  • calculate and invoice/refund a merchant

  • create and manage a merchant agreement (consider having an expiration date on such agreements - on expiration, the Merchant cannot award/spend contacts)

Merchant agreements allow the business to define the schemes its merchants can participate in and their corresponding contributions. In addition, the business can define whether settlement takes place for its merchants on the award or on the spend.

The settlement process charges participating organisations (typically merchants) the cost of awards. The settlement creates financial transactions either in real-time or in set frequencies, such as daily.

Story

5.3.2.0

V5-41

Rewards Merchant Commercial Terms 

Merchant commercial terms are the agreements between the business and the individual merchants who will be participating in the reward schemes. Terms include the agreed commercial terms for the Merchant:

a) The reward schemes that the Merchant will contribute towards the contact's awards or spends.

b) The contribution fee that the Merchant will be debited for on an award/spend (calculated based on a percentage of the award/spend, defaults to 100%).

c) The management fee that the Merchant will be debited for, for the use of service (calculated based on a percentage of the awarded amount, defaults to 0%).

d) The date that the agreement was made and its termination date (if any).

Blocking a merchant denotes that the Merchant can no longer award contacts, nor can contacts redeem their awards at that Merchant.

Story

 

V5-40

Financial KPI Customer Event

Financial KPI events are used to measure a contact's monthly financial status and performance against the business' KPIs.  

Story

Candidate Features

V5-39

Achievement Customer Event  

Achievement events indicate a contact's accomplishment (e.g. a Facebook like or completing their personal information).

Story

5.4.3.0

V5-33

Purchase Customer Event

A purchase event represents a sale (e.g. via a POS) of purchased items. CRM.COM behaves solely as a target system, calculating only the total net, tax and gross amounts for the purchased items.

In the context of Subscription & Billing, posting an Invoice (financial transaction) can trigger the creation of a purchase customer event having as purchased items the subscribed products.

Story

5.1.0.0

V5-32

Customer Events

Customer events capture financial and marketing transactions for analytical and reward purposes. The classification of the event determines how CRM.COM will process and award the event. 

Story

5.1.0.0

V5-31

Reward Schemes

A business can have one or more schemes to market and differentiate its marketing loyalty activities. Each scheme has one of the following three signup options for contacts to register to

Open loop schemes

  • Auto signup - a contact is automatically signed up upon registration

  • Self signup - a contact chooses to participate in a rewards scheme at will.

Closed loop schemes

  • Closed loop signup - contacts are signed-up in a collective and controlled manner (e.g. domain-specific emails or via a link in a communication sent to the contact).

Story

5.1.0.0

V5-2212

Settlement Enhancements

Ability to settle all spends made against any wallet allocation and apply a settlement fee on award/spend transaction

Improvement

5.4.5.0

V5-1698

Purchase Event Estimates

Ability to get an estimate of awards/spends of a purchase event prior to submitting it as a purchase event

Ability to submit the purchase event with an estimate id (recalculation will take place)

New Feature

5.4.4.0

V5-1588

Customer Identification Medium entity to store the first six and last four digits of the card on CIM (if type = card)

Ability to keep on CIM (of type card) the first six and last four digits of the card

Improvement

5.4.3.1

V5-3139

Payout on Redeem Enhancements

Ability to define a minimum (payout) amount that should be supported on automatic redeem payouts

Improvement

5.5.0.0

V5-3052

Payout on Redeem

Ability to perform a payout on auto-redeem against the contact's preferred payment method or to a specific payment gateway  (provided that it supports payouts)

New Feature

 

V5-3002

Rewards Free Product

Ability to award contacts a free product (SKU, family, type, brand) and on redemption, the amount of such purchased product (or the cheapest one) to be credited to the contact's open balance

Improvement

5.5.0.0

V5-2956

Redeem Enhancement

The ability for a business to enable manual redemption. In this mode, redemption is not automatic but is performed only if a spend is requested.

Improvement

5.5.0.0

V5-2842

Rewards Lottery Enhancements

Ability to draw a winner based on the number of entries for specific contact events

Improvement

5.5.0.0

V5-3557

Ability to support front-end reduction at the Transaction Processor level

If a Transaction Processor submits purchase events with a spending request, then

  • match it to the contact who submitted the spend request for the specific (one) business

  • process the request in sync mode

New Feature

5.5.3.2

V5-4289

Delegate Offers

The ability for a B2B Merchant to set up a delegate (proxy) offer

  • Targets the contacts of the business

  • Can create product-specific offers for the products owned by this Merchant

  • Can create a reward offer as 'funding owner proxy', meaning that the Merchant owns and funds the offer, but the purchase events take place at the business and its merchant network

Improvement

5.6.0.0

V5-4265

Ability to sign up to reward schemes using codes

Ability to sign up to reward schemes using codes

New Feature

5.6.0.0

V5-4116

B2B Connect

The ability for a business (the peer) to be a B2B merchant of another business (the scheme owner). The two businesses have a mutual agreement whereby they will apply promotions and rewards to contacts registered on the scheme owner business. The agreement, as such, defines the common identification method that will be used between the two businesses to identify the contact on the (scheme owner) business, who purchased from the (peer) business.

New Feature

5..6.0.0

V5-4761

Ability to specify the organisation that applies offers in a B2B scenario

In a B2B scenario where a business is a B2B Merchant of another business, allow each business to specify if their offers apply.

Improvement

5.6.0.5

V5-4985

Ability for consumers to make donations to an organisation

Donations is the business process where a contact selects from a defined list organisations and donates an amount, either per transaction (purchase event) or at a set interval.

New Feature

5.7.0.0

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