Archive for September, 2009

SaaS and protection of environment

Monday, September 28th, 2009

We have discovered recently an interesting view on advantages of using SaaS software - see article «SaaS v. on-premises Software: Which One is More Green?».
The author claims (with numbers and calculations) that using SaaS solutions in your business help you reduce global energy consumption.
We never thought about this aspect of on-demand computing but we found it encouraging – we do useful things in terms of our global environment protection!

Loyalty programs. Software.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

A little bit of self-promotion :)
The last news posted in our blog covered the new features of PointLoyalty Manager System.
Development and support of Loyalty program system for bonus calculation as SaaS tool has been and remains the main activity of our Company.
Besides this we always have been and currently continue the development of custom software both in marketing sphere of Loyalty programs and other related spheres.  Our Company has sufficient resources to carry out such tasks.
Thereby, even if currently you do not plan  the implementation of bonus systems in your business, but you like the design and presentation of our PointLoyalty Manager product, it may well be that we are able to  help you  in questions of other type of automation.
For all cooperation questions, please, contact the Commercial Department of the Company -    sales@pointloyalty.com

Bonus calculation in web 2.0

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Talking to the audience, different from the representatives of trading companies, at best we face with the difference in terminology when discussing the customer rewards systems. In worst case we face with the initial lack of understanding of why the company needs to encourage and keep its customers.

Terminology
If the representatives of trading organizations set the problem of loyalty programs creation and use exactly this term, then in other areas the given terminology is not established. Bonus systems, systems of prize points calculation, encouragement systems, systems of customers rewards…..Everything, but not the loyalty programs; although, as we have mentioned before, the difference in terminology doesn’t affect the essence of creation of such programs.

Usage
If the representatives of trading organizations understand the importance of rewards systems’ creation, then for the owners of other business trends the necessity of such a system is not initially obvious. Thus, acquaintance with our product will help not only to meet the exciting needs, but also to form the specific market - at least you have something new to offer to your customers.

In general
Always and in every scheme:
- We have a customer
- We have the rules of his/her encouragement
- We have a scheme of bonus calculation according to a set rules.

Thereby, if you are interested in creation of your customer’s rewards system – you can be sure that our system is created for you. Well, you can try at least :) And do not be confused by the unusual terminology, you can always use your own when designing the individual templates and rules.
For all questions on possibility to use our application for your Company, please, contact the support service - support@pointloyalty.com

The report on evolution of PointLoyalty Manager system

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

REST / Web services
1) SSL support for REST API.
2)  the methods of creation of loyalty program users’ accounts have been added.
Now the owners of loyalty programs may:
- provide their users with logins/passwords — offline business.
- create accounts automatically - online business.
User console (the system of notification of loyalty programs users)
1) It is given the example of user console placement on the site of an owner of the program.

2) It is added the possibility of full customization of «User console» for customer’s needs
-  Support of Company’s logotype.
- Support of application’s form  (CSS).
- Support service’ address has been changed.
(See Pointloyalty Manager “Registration page”)
3) the utility for adjustment of application’s form has been developed

4) The detailed description of integration process with “User console” has been added. The given description contains the detailed examples and recommendations on the application’ using.
http://www.pointloyalty.com/member_console.html

To resume — the possibility of full integration of widget “User console” with your sites has been added.

The future plans — to provide with plugins for integration with e-commerce support systems.