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    Getting started:: Activating your Loyalty account - Loyalty Onboarding
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    Before you start with Loyalty, you must set up your account. This involves creating your initial account settings including language & currency definition and plan settings.

    Before setting up a Loyalty plan, it is highly recommended to read Before you start with Loyalty to get an overview of add-on.

    The onboarding process includes the following steps:

    Prerequisites

    Emarsys Loyalty requires a working Smart Insight integration, and an additional three mandatory fields in your sales data file.

    You will also need to confirm that your sales data is loaded daily and that your returns and cancellations are processed accurately (so that any points earned from then can be removed).

    If you want to use the Loyalty Wallet you will need to implement the Loyalty JavaScript commands on your website, otherwise you can use Loyalty’s API and build your own UI on your website.

    Creating your plan

    Emarsys Loyalty allows you to manage multiple loyalty plans simultaneously in the same account (multiplan). Parallel plans can be for example B2C/B2B, Amateurs/Professionals, etc. 

    In the first step of onboarding, you are required to define a plan name and plan identifier of your first plan, which is also your default plan. Additionally, you need to select the plan type.

    Once you activated your Loyalty account, you can add more plans via Loyalty Management > Account settings. To enable this option in your account, please contact Emarsys support.

    Plan name - This is the official name of your plan as it will be communicated to the customers. A branded name will help you to market your plan. Customers also will see the name of your plan in the Loyalty Wallet before joining. 

    Plan identifier - This is a permanent ID that will be used to identify the plan internally. The ID cannot be changed after the plan is launched.

    Plan type - We currently support the following types of plans:

    • Redemption - Members earn points from purchases and engagement, and they can redeem them for rewards. You can start a one tier plan quickly and with a minimum number of complex decisions. You can also run a multi-tier plan to increase the gamification element and regularly encourage members to upgrade to the next tier and earn upgraded rewards.  
    • Benefits - A multi-tier plan that increases the gamification element and regularly encourages members to upgrade to the next tier and unlock new benefits. You can decide if members earn points or not, but the points are not redeemable.

    Setting up languages and currency

    If your customers belong to different markets with different languages and currencies, each of them can receive the Loyalty treatment in their own language and currency. 

    This step is divided into the following parts:

    • Language - Select primary and additional languages if needed. 
    • Store url - You can define the store URL that supports the selected language. This will automatically preset these URLs in all the required settings fields.
    • Currency - Select currency and additional currencies if needed.
    • Market - Select your primary market (e.g. country or region) and your additional markets if needed. This is an optional free text field that will allow you to target Loyalty offers by selecting the relevant market. For example, your customers are located in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but you are interested in offering a voucher for points only to the German market. Markets can also distinguish between different websites in the same country or different regions.

    The defined primaries will be the default shown on your Loyalty account and for customers without language and currency association.

    Setting up your plan

    In the Plan settings tab, you can define the basic rules of your plan, that will affect all members regardless of their Loyalty status. The plan settings are changeable after launch (except for ‘Yearly calculation for tiers’), but we do not recommend doing so if it is not really required. Any such change will require you to communicate this to your customers. 

    • Plan name - This is the official name of your plan as it will be communicated to the customers. A branded name will help you to market your plan. Customers will also see the name of your plan in the Loyalty Wallet before joining.

    Plan Type:

    • Points & Redemption - Your members will accumulate status and balance points. Then, the balance points can be redeemed for vouchers and exclusive access.
    • Points & Benefits - For this plan type, your members will accumulate balance points behind the scene (In case you want in the  future to switch to a redemption plan), but will not be able to redeem those points.

    With this setting, the Rewards for points screens for the Voucher and Exclusive access will be disabled.

    When you later decide to switch to a redemption plan, there will be a new setting opening up:

    • Historical Balance points - Select whether to award historical balance points accumulated by existing members, based on their Loyalty activity from the moment they joined the plan. This is a one-time process that is being performed once you re-launch your plan.
    • Reward with Balance points - The ideal option to immediately incentivize members to redeem points for rewards.
    • Do not reward with Balance points - Accumulation of balance points starts from scratch and customers will have to earn new points for redemption.
    • Points name - Points are the Loyalty currency in your plan. You can call them "points" or anything that resonates with your brand like "stars" or "coins". Customers see the points name in their Loyalty offers, rewards and fixed benefits. You are required to define the name of the points in the singular and plural.
    • Rewards allocation delay - Select how long after a purchase rewards are approved and added to the customer's Wallet. This allows the system to automatically calculate returns and cancellations if required. Also, this prevents you from awarding rewards that you may need to cancel later. Your customers see their earned points in the Wallet as "pending" during this period. Note that after the rewards are approved, you can only manually add or remove points via Member Profiles.

    When setting your reward allocation delay, align it with your return policy and shipment time. Additionally, check your actual return times.

    • You can delay the rewards only for purchases (purchases & promotions actions), but not for engagement actions.
    • Please note that any refund or cancellation after the configured period has to be done manually by you via the Member Profiles.

    Activate the Loyalty tactic Point about to expire, and make sure you let the members know when they have points which are about to expire. 

    • Calculation for tiers - Select when the total accrued status points are counted for tier status:
      • The calculation for tiers is done on December 31st every [X years] - While the tiers are calculated on a fixed date, every [x years] according to your definition, customers who are upgraded to a higher tier maintain their status at least for this defined period.
      • The calculation for tiers is done [X months] from the date of joining the plan or upgrading a tier - The date of calculation can vary depending on the customer's progress among the tiers. Customers who are upgraded to a higher tier maintain their status at least for the defined period.
      • The tiers are not calculated (no dropout scenario) - Points are accumulated for upgrading tiers only.
    • Tiers expiration - Select every few months/ years (depends on the previous setting) when tier status expires and a new calculation is made.
    • This option is not relevant if the tiers are not calculated.
    • In the tier settings you can set a different tier expiration that will override this setting.
      For example, Bronze and Silver will be calculated once a year while Gold will be calculated once every two years.
    • Status points expiration - Select when the Status points expire and reset:
      • Status points expire and are reset on the day of calculation for tiers - Once the points are calculated they are reset, but the customers maintain their tier status at least until the next calculation.
        This option is not relevant if the tiers are not calculated.
      • Status points expire and are reset every [X months] from the moment they are earned - At the time of calculation for tiers, only the valid points for that day are calculated. Based on this calculation customers maintain their status or drop out to a lower tier.
      • The Status points are not expired or reset - This option is relevant only if the tiers are not calculated.
    • Status points validity - If the second option is selected, define the validity of status points from the day they are earned.

    The following cannot be edited after the first launch:

    • Calculation for tiers,
    • Tiers expiration,
    • Status points expiration
    • Status points validity

    To do so, contact Emarsys Support.

    Use case - Yearly tier calculation on the 31st of December

    The calculation for tiers is done on December 31st every year. Status points expire and are reset on the day of calculation for tiers:

    Use case - Tier calculation 12 months after the date of joining

    The calculation for tiers is done 12 months from the date of joining (or upgrading a tier). The status points expire 12 months from the day they are earned:

    • Balance points expiration - If you want to limit balance points validity, select when the "points to spend" will be removed from the customer's balance. Limiting the point validity helps to drive customers to redeem them for rewards and stay engaged with your program. (See Before you start with Loyalty for more information about balance points.).
    • Points about to expire - If you have defined validity, you also have to select how long before expiration, the "points to spend" will be marked as "expires soon". This warning helps to drive customers to redeem these points before they expire.

    Defining membership settings

    After specifying the general Plan Settings, consider your Membership settings.

    • New members distribution- Select how your contacts will be distributed among tiers once they join your Loyalty plan.
      • Add new members to the bottom tier - Ideal option to start a new Loyalty plan from scratch with an equal starting line for all members.
      • Add new members to a tier according to their historical spend in a defined calculation period - Ideal option to incentivize new members who were already loyal before they joined the program.
    • Points distribution- Select how points will be distributed among new members once they join your Loyalty plan.
      • Add Status points - Select how the new members should be rewarded with Status points, according to their historical spend in the selected calculation period.
      • Add Balance points - Select how the new members should be rewarded with Points to spend, according to their historical spend in the selected calculation period.
    • Calculation period- Define how much historical data you want to use to calculate contacts' and points distribution. The calculation is performed according to the defined period from the moment a new member joins the Loyalty.
      • From the beginning of the current calendar year
      • By a predefined period - Define the timeframe to reward points for historical purchases.
    • If you select Add new members to the bottom tier, the option of Add Status points will be disabled, but you can still decide to give balance points.
    • If you select Add new members to a tier according to their historical spend, but you do not select Add Status points in addition, then the system will insert members to a tier according to their historical spend, but will not add any Status points to their account.

    Activating your Loyalty account

    Now, you are ready to activate your account and configure the rest of your settings such as customer actions, benefits and rewards.

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