{"id":2610,"date":"2020-06-01T14:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:01:56","slug":"zen-cart-loyalty-reward-points-better-than-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/01\/zen-cart-loyalty-reward-points-better-than-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Cart Loyalty Reward Points &#8211; Better than Discounts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/zencart_reward_points.html\">Zen Cart Reward Points<\/a>, a new mod that allows stores to assign loyalty points to transactions, which can be redeemed later for merchandise.  Unlike discounts, which reduce the bottom line right away, reward points offer a way to incentivize customers to stay with you, but deferred the costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reward Points mod is  a custom software installation, configured according to your request.  One of the implementation models involves using Frequency Discounts to compute reward points, so a customer would only earn reward points if purchases exceed a certain amount during a specific look-back window (say 90 days or 1 year).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rewards_order_earn_use-1024x307.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rewards_order_earn_use-1024x307.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rewards_order_earn_use-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rewards_order_earn_use-768x230.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rewards_order_earn_use-1536x461.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rewards_order_earn_use.png 1854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Other implementation models are possible; just let me know your needs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just published Zen Cart Reward Points, a new mod that allows stores to assign loyalty points to transactions, which can be redeemed later for merchandise. Unlike discounts, which reduce the bottom line right away, reward points offer a way to incentivize customers to stay with you, but deferred the costs. The Reward Points mod &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/01\/zen-cart-loyalty-reward-points-better-than-discounts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zen Cart Loyalty Reward Points &#8211; Better than Discounts?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,58,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discounting","category-that-software-guy","category-zen-cart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thatsoftwareguy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}