PointLoyalty - loyalty programs online

While testing the integration with e-commerce systems and after analyzing feedback from our customers who also do integration with PointLoyalty Manager we decided to extend our external access interfaces (REST API, web services). New features will help simplify integration works. We will publish new Java and PHP libraries in a couple of weeks and update system’s server part. New libraries will be backward compatible of course.
Sometimes we get requests to introduce same REST API for loyalty programs and offers management and to provide a way for autonomous processing without human intervention. At this point in time we don’t intend to extend the API in this direction.
Reasons:
- Programs and offes are relatively stable. Once you have defined rules it is unlikely you want to change them frequently. There is no necessity to dynamically create or change them.
- Besides, users can get confused in all different kinds of rules and programs we have in our system (simplicity vs. versatility). In our PointLoyalty Flash GUI we simplified a lot of things for loyalty program managers, but it is really hard to provide simple and powerful external API for this task.

We don’t want our users to get confused – use our rich Flash client to define your bonus offers and you will not get lost in a multitude of options our system provides.

Development news.

We finished development of a plugin for e-commerce solution http://www.konakart.com.

The following functionality is implemented:
- Passing shop client information into our bonus processing system PointLoyalty Manager (optionally, when there is a need to create loyalty offers based on member attributes).
- Automatic creation of accounts in Member Console application. Every authorized internet shop client is able to see earned bonus points.
- Administrator panel with plugin settings.
- Customization, tuning of error reports.

The plugin will be available for free-of-charge use after testing and preparing documentation.

We develop the plugin to demonstrate how easy it is to integrate any system with PointLoyalty online services and to popularize our product.

In our opinion KonaKart is one of most advanced eCommerce solutions implemented in Java on the market these days.

We already described how to place «Member Console» widget on your Company web site – please see an example.
We also wrote about using our utility for tuning the application appearance (colors, backgrounds, fonts) – see widget design customization.
To make things easier we put our widget with custom design settings on external website as an example – please see it here.
More information on the Member Console you can get on description page.
Once you have questions – consult our support – support@pointloyalty.com.