R9 - Understanding Rewards

What does this section cover?

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

TermDescription
Rewards Participants

The customers who have signed up for rewards or have been automatically selected to participate

Access TokensAccess tokens are used to identify a customer, user or app that can access CRM.COM and authenticate them while accessing the system
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

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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

Processes / ConceptDescription
Ending Rewards Scheme ParticipationAn 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

  • Purchase

  • Referral

  • Web

  • Social Media

  • Achievement

Visit Evaluating Customer Events for more information

Evaluating Spend Request Customer EventsCustomer 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
  • Spend Request

Visit Evaluating Customer Events for more information

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 Managing Award Transactions for more information

Award 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 Managing Spend Transactions for more information

Award Expiration Transactions

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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 Managing Award Expiration Transactions for more information

Reward Settlements

AVAILABLE FROM CRM.COM R9

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).

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.

EntityNetwork Characteristics

Reward Offer Types

Rewards Offers
Rewards Schemes
Award Rewards Transactions
Spend Rewards Transactions

Award Expiration Transactions

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Rewards Related Modules

Interaction EntityHow
Access TokensAccess Tokens are used to identify a customer, user or app that can access CRM.COM and be able to receive or spend rewards
Customer EventsRewards can be Customer Event Initiated. Active Customer Event definition must be configured. Customer Events module should be fully understood before proceeding with Rewards
Wallets

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
CommunicationsCommunications 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

Company ZX wants to create a reward offer for liking their facebook page

Business Requirement

Company ZX would like to set up a reward offer for liking their Facebook page


CRM.COM Solution

  • Configuration
  1. Verify that a Reward Scheme exists in the system, for example "Marketing Reward Scheme" and make sure that there are Reward Participants that are participating in this scheme
  2. Set up a Reward Offer Type that can be used only for Facebook likes
    1. Name: Reward Behaviour Facebook
    2. Classification: Reward Behaviour
  3. Set up a Reward Offer so that participants can be awarded 1 Euro for liking your Facebook page
    1. Name: 1 euro on liking Facebook Page
    2. Scheme: Marketing
    3. Type: Reward Behaviour Facebook
    4. Award Amount: 1
    5. Award Conditions:
      1. Facebook likes
      2. Enter Facebook page
      3. Specify any segments or organisational units that need to be included
    6. Click on SAVE

More Information on Rewards configuration can be found at: Rewards - The Admin Stuff

Award Loyal Subscribers for Rewards Participation

Company ZX wants to award subscription customers

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

  • Configuration
  • Set up a Reward Offer Type
    1. Classification: Reward Subscription Maturity 
  • Set up a Reward Offer 
    • Type: with the above type
    • Scheme: Marketing
    • Category: Marketing
    • Amount: 5 Euros
    • Conditions:
      • Uninterrupted Subscription Period: 1 year
      • Segment Conditions:
        • Included Segments: Effective Subscribers

  • Create a new Reward Run Definition
    1. Name: Award Mature Subscribers once a year
    2. Reward Offer Type: select the type previously created, Award Mature Subscribers once a year
    3. Under Criteria: specify all the criteria that will retrieve the subscribers that have a continuous subscription for the last year:
      1. Reward Schemes: Marketing
      2. Reward Offer Types: Reward Subscription Maturity
    4. Under Scheduling

      1. Schedule the definition to be executed on a specific date and time

      2. Schedule the recurrence to be each year


  • User Process
  • Execute Run Definition
    • Look at the run results
    • Navigate to Award Transactions: transactions have been created for all participants that match the criteria
    • Navigate to the participants wallets: 5 Euros have been credited to participants that match the criteria

More Information on Rewards Offers configuration can be found at: Reward Subscription Maturity

Configure and Reward Existing Customers for Referring Customers

Company ZX wants to configure the rewards for an existing customer

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

  • Configuration
  • Set Up Reward Definitions
  • Set up Reward Offer Type: Award Referrals
    • Classification: Referrals
    • Auto create Identifier and passcode

  • Create a Reward Scheme – Marketing

  • Create a Reward Offer : Award Referrals €5
    • Type: Referrals
    • Spend Conditions: Product Type: Accessories
    • Criteria: Reward Offer Type: Referrals
  • User Process
  1. Create Reward Participants for the 6 participants
  2. Create 5 Customer Events of type Referrals (Don’t Process Immediately)
  3. Execute the Rewards Run
  4. Award Transactions will be created of a total €15

    1. Credit Wallet Transaction will be created €15

  5. Create a Purchase Customer Event (Process Immediately)
    1. Products: (Accessories Type)
    2. Total Amount: €15
  6. Create a Spend Request event (Process Immediately) using the Purchase Customer Event created above
    1. Spend Transaction will be created of a total €15

    2. Debit Wallet Transaction will be created €15

 

Flow

1. Create Web CE

Process Immediately

2. Create Web CE

Do Not Process Immediately

3. Execute Rewards Run

4. Create Purchase CE

Process Immediately

5. Create Spend CE

Do Not Process Immediately

6. Execute Rewards Run

CE

x
€5

x

 

x
€8

x
€8

 

Award RT

x

 

x
€5

   

Spend RT

     

x
€8

Credit WT

x
€5

 

x
€5

   

Debit WT

     

x
€8

Wallet Balance = 0

€5

€5

€10

€10

€10

€2

More Information on Reward Offers and Run Definitions can be found at: Managing Rewards Offers and Using Reward Offers Evaluation Run Definitions respectively

Configure and Execute a Award Expiration Transactions Run Definition

Company ZX wants to create a reward offer for liking their facebook page

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

  • Configuration
  1. Reward Offers should have defined the Reward Awards Validity which will display the date until when the Reward Offer's Awards Transactions can be used.
  2. Wallet Definitions must have set the Financial transactions to be created when:
    1. Causes Debiting Wallets: On Award Expiration Transactions
    2. Causes Voiding Wallets: On Cancelling as Award Expiration Transaction
  3. Set up the Award Expiration Run Definition which will be executed each month to produce Award Expiration Transactions and cancel the Awards that have been Expired
    1. Specify the following
      1. Award Transaction expired X days ago
      2. Reward Offers
      3. Segments to be Included or Excluded from the Run.

  4. Each month and once the Run is executed, the award expiration transactions will be created to expire an awarded amount given to a rewards participant by debiting the reward participant's wallet. Award Expiration Transactions trigger the trigger the generation of Debit Wallet Transactions which will deduct either the whole or some of the awarded amount depending on how much money the participant already spent.

More Information on Award Expiration Transactions Run Definition can be found at: Using Award Expiration Run Definitions

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