Hi All,
We're looking for community support to build this module.
Q. Who will benefit?
A. Every AC customer that sells products and would like a new sales/income stream.
Basic brief:
To enable
customers to purchase gift certificates, which can be emailed to a
recipient, and used as a form of payment on the AC storefront.
Benefits:
- Capture gift sales, particularly during Christmas period
- Customer acquisition: Gift recipients become NEW customers!
- Capture corporate sales (staff incentives etc)
- Use certificates as sales incentives for your existing customer
base. i.e. Spend $x and receive a $x certificate for your next purchase.
- Certificate redemption reporting - measure certificate profitability
Example uses:
1/ Send [GIFT CERTIFICATE EMAIL TEMPLATE] ,to [all customers that
have opted in to newsletters.] AND [all customers that have not
purchased for], [greater than 180 days] of [STORENAME]
2/ Bulk generate certificate codes and merge them into an offline or online direct mail piece.
Example orders:
- A corporate customer would call us and say: Please send out (via email or print mail) 50x $50 vouchers for store 'X' with an expiry date of 'X'. (i.e. 50 different recipients/cert-codes generated on the one
order)
- Alternatively, a customer could simply buy multiple certificates on the front-end storefront (add them to their cart), and assign an email address (a recipient) to each of the certificates and checkout.
Notes:
To be clear, these are NOT coupon codes. (although they do share some similarities)
Unlike an existing coupon code - the gift
certificate is a unique code, and a form of tender (like a credit
card). It is tied to a customer account, therefore if a customer only
spends a portion of their certificate the balance is retained for their
next purchase.
Security & limited liabilty: unlike a coupon code, a certificate code can only be used once - period. Whereas a coupon code can only be set to be used once 'PER CUSTOMER'.
Unlike an existing coupon code - a gift
certificate can be purchased by a customer and sent/given to a NEW customer!
Funding:
We are prepared to contribute several thousand dollars to get this completed by end of Oct 09 in order to take advantage of this years peak holiday/gifting period. That is approximately 25% of the dev share estimate.
Please register you interest below (within the next week, so we can hit the deadline) and AC will report back on whether this is a go for immediate development.
Cheers