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Managing Loyalty Points Settings

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When and how many loyalty points will be earned?

Our system will retrieve order information from your Shopify or Bigcommerce account and add points to the loyalty accounts of your customers automatically in accordance with your loyalty program setting. 

If you are on Shopify:

When you set up your loyalty program, you could choose to add points when an order is marked as:

  • Order Fulfilled
  • Order Paid
  • Order Paid or Fulfilled (whichever occurs earlier)

Points would be subtracted when an order is marked as:

  • Order Refunded or Cancelled (whichever occurs earlier)

For "Order Refunded", points will be subtracted according to the actual amount refunded.

For "Order Cancelled", you can choose to

    • subtract only the refunded amount when a cancelled order is partially refunded.
    • always subtract the entire amount of points originally granted for the order.

To understand more about Order Statuses at Shopify, visit http://docs.shopify.com/manual/your-store/orders

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When calculating how many points to award for an order based on the amount spent, the following applies:

  • shipping fees and shipping taxes are excluded;
  • any discounts applied in the order are excluded;
  • product taxes are excluded unless you list them in your product prices under Tax Settings
  • there are no currency conversions, the earning ratio applies according to the currency specified in your store.
  • each order edit after the status "Paid" or "Fulfilled" which creates an increase or decrease in order total will be displayed as a separate points transaction.

 

If you are on BigCommerce:

When you set up your loyalty program, you could choose to add points when an order is first marked as:

  • Order Completed or Shipped (whichever occurs earlier)
  • Order Completed
  • Order Shipped

Points would be subtracted when an order is marked as:

  • Order Declined, Refunded or Cancelled

For Order Refunded, if the refund amount is specified, points will be subtracted according to the actual amount refunded.

It may take up to an hour for customers to see the points reflected on their loyalty account after the order status has reached the required status for point earning. 

To understand more about Order Statuses at Bigcommerce, visit https://support.bigcommerce.com/articles/Public/Understanding-Order-Statuses

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When calculating how many points to award for an order based on the amount spent, the following applies:

  • taxes, shipping fees, and store credits are excluded;
  • any discounts applied through coupon codes/discount rules in the order are excluded;
  • there are no currency conversions, the earning ratio applies according to the currency specified in your store.

If you want to change the point earning settings after your launch of the Loyalty Program, please send an email to us at support@sloyalty.com.

 

Will loyalty points expire automatically?

It depends on your choice. You are allowed to set points expiration to automatically expire points earned by customers according to the schedule you specified. Of course, you can choose not to set an expiration for the points.

If you want to add points expiration schedule, please follow the steps below:

  1. Go to Admin Console >Program Settings > Earning Points > Points Expiration
  2. Click “ Setup Points Expiration Schedule”
  3. Click on the drop-down menu to select the points expiration date. Please note expiration date can only be set as the first day of a year (e.g. Jan 1, 2021). The points will be expired at 00:00:00 on the specified date according to the time zone set up in your Shopify store settings.
  4. Click “Next” to process and Save