Get Started with SC Loyalty Rewards

Modified on Fri, 14 Jun at 1:12 AM

Overview

SC Loyalty Rewards provides you with the ability to offer a robust loyalty program to your customers.

Your customers can earn points and then redeem those points for discounts on future orders, free shipping, and various other custom rewards.

SC Loyalty Rewards does not require a Liquid code installation.

Installation Steps

1. Install SC Loyalty Rewards

Visit the the Shopify app store.
Enter your .myshopify.com URL, if it prompts you.
Accept the App Permissions, then select Install App.
Select Start Free Trial to approve future monthly charges.
Note: Re-installing a previously installed app will prompt you to pay the first month's fee right away. Your free trial will not be re-applied.
Read and accept the terms and conditions.

2. Setup Your Loyalty Program

SC Loyalty Rewards setup wizard will help guide you through the process of configuring your loyalty program. You can specify the name of your program, and the name of your reward points, and set introductory earning rules.

Please visit Set up a Loyalty Program for more information.

3. Configure Earning Rules

Earning rules are how your customers gain points for completing specific actions like signing up, making purchases, or promoting your store on social media.

Purchasing Product (per dollar) - Customers will earn points based on the dollar value of each purchase they make on your store. We recommend either keeping this set at 1 or using a multiple of 10 to make things easier for both yourself and your customers.
Signing Up - Customers will earn points for subscribing. We recommend providing enough points so customers are incentivized to redeem a reward right away.
Celebrating Birthdays - Customers will earn points every year that they're subscribed to your loyalty program. We recommend providing a number of points that's based on your Average Order Value multiplied by the Purchasing Product Value.
Share on Facebook - Customers will earn points when sharing their purchases on Facebook.
Share on Twitter - Customers will earn points when sharing their purchases on Twitter.

Please visit Edit Your Earning Rules for more information.

4. Configure Rewards

Reward Tiers

Reward tiers are program levels your customers can reach to receive bigger and better rewards. These rewards can be a dollar amount off of an order, a percentage off of an order, free shipping, or a custom reward.

By default, we recommend offering a 2% return of your customer's purchase amount, but this depends on your profit margins.

Please visit Create and Edit Your Custom Rewards for more information.

	1 Point Awarded per Dollar Spent	10 Points Awarded per Dollar Spent	100 Points Awarded per Dollar Spent
1% Loyalty Program	100 Points per $1 of Reward	1000 Points per $1 of Reward	10000 Points per $1 of Reward
2% Loyalty Program	50 Points per $1 of Reward	500 Points per $1 of Reward	5000 Points per $1 of Reward
5% Loyalty Program	20 Points per $1 of Reward	200 Points per $1 of Reward	2000 Points per $1 of Reward
10% Loyalty Program	10 Points per $1 of Reward	100 Points per $1 of Reward	1000 Points per $1 of Reward

Custom Rewards

Customers can redeem their points for something other than a monetary-based reward. Some examples of Custom Rewards include:

Adding a free product to your customer's next order.
Adding customization to an existing product.
Offering customers the ability to share their purchase on social media for extra points.
The option for customers to spend their points on a charitable cause.

Please visit Create and Edit Your Custom Rewards for more information.

Buy With Points

Customers can redeem their points with a direct point-to-dollar-amount ratio. The storefront widget allows your customers to select how much of a reward they'd like to redeem.

Example

Customers can convert 1,259 points into a coupon code for $12.59.

Please visit Set Up and Enable Buy with Points for more information.

5. Customize the Storefront Widget

The widget is your customer's way of accessing your loyalty program, and you can customize this to suit your store's branding.

Colors - Adjusts the color scheme of the widget.
Display Settings- Adjusts the overall appearance of where and how the widget will display on your store.
- Select a Widget position that won't interfere with the other widgets on your site.
- Choose an aesthetically-pleasing option for the Widget style that'll draw your customers to open the loyalty portal.
- Pick a Logged in app bar greeting to present your customers with a welcome message or custom icon.
- You may Hide widget on mobile devices if you're already using several other widgets.
- If you're on a paid plan of SC Loyalty Rewards, you can choose to Remove Shop Circle branding.
Custom Styling - Allows you to set custom margins and border radiuses.
Widget Positioning - Allows you to adjust the widget placement.
Custom Icons - Allows you to change each of the widget's icons.

Please visit Customize Your Storefront Widget for more information.

6. Customize the Email Notifications

SC Loyalty Rewards allows you to setup and manage email notifications that you can send to your customers whenever specific events occur or your customers take a specific action.

We recommend customizing the color, text, and logo in your email notifications.

Select the ellipsis, then Edit Template to edit a template.
Select Tools, then Source Code to adjust the colors. Please visit W3 Schools - HTML and W3 Schools - CSS for more information.
You may add a custom logo by uploading an image to your Shopify admin, then copying the URL.
Once the URL's been copied to your computer's clipboard, you can insert it into the body of your emails by selecting Insert > Image > Source.

Simply repeat these steps for each email you'd like to send to your customers.

Please visit Customize Your Email Notifications for more information.

7. Adjust the Language Settings (optional)

SC Loyalty Rewards allows you to customize the language of your loyalty program.

Please visit Customize the Language Settings for more information.

8. Configure Customer Tiers (optional)

Customer Tiers make it easy to reward your loyal customers by offering enhanced earning ratios, bonus points, or setting customer tags that can be used by other Shopify apps.

Please visit Create and Edit Your Customer Tiers for more information.

9. Reward Past Customers

From the SC Loyalty Rewards app admin, select Settings, then Program Settings to enable the program if it isn't already live.

Once the program is live, we recommend letting your existing customers know about your program.

To do this, select Dashboard, then Start Process under the Retroactive Points header to award points for your customer's previous purchases. This will let these customers know that they have points as well as introduce them to your program.

10. Setup Earning Campaigns (optional)

You can create campaigns to encourage customers to purchase more on your store, as well as offer bonus points / point multipliers for a specific period of time.

Please visit Create and Edit Your Campaigns for more information.

11. Test and Preview the Widget

If the widget isn't appearing on your storefront, it may still be in test mode.

From Your Shopify Admin Select Online Store.
Click the Customize button to edit your Theme.
Select App embeds from the navigation menu, located on the left side of the page.
Enable the Storefront Widget.
Save your change using the button in the top right corner.

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