Bonus

Released 31.01.2025

Share bonus point balance within a household

(RTL-6693)

If you want to share bonus point balance within a household you can do that by activating the parameter: “Member in a household share bonus points balance” All members within that household will be able to see the total number of bonus points as well as use all available points.  The parameter can be found in the system parameters menu in CW

Bonus point reward types

(RTL-8036)

It is possible to configure bonus point reward types with different expiration periods and default authorization period.

Improvements

Validate that bonus rule is active during Issue, redeem and refund(RTL-7927)

When Issuing, redeeming or refunding through the Bonus API there is validation against the bonus rules making sure it is active

Parallel excel export process (RTL-8152)

Parallel Excel export has been introduced, making it possible for multiple user to run the export simultaneously.

Released 31.12.2024

New bonus balance view

(RTL-7975, RTL-7865, RTL-7866)

The bonus checks view has been reworked and renamed to “Bonus”
It contains a “Bonus balance” , “Bonus checks” and “Bonus point rewards” tab.

Bonus balance tab:
Displays a members total bonus checks and bonus points balance. If the member is part of a household it also displays the accumulated household balance.

Bonus checks tab:
Displays a grid of all bonus checks. Clicking the bonus check code opens the bonus check details view where more details and transactions are displayed.  

Bonus points reward tab:
Displays a grid of all bonus point rewards. Clicking the bonus point reward code opens the bonus point reward details view where more details and transactions are displayed.  

Issue bonus point rewards through bonus point user interface

(RTL-7827)

A new button is available in the Bonus point rewards tab which lets the user issue bonus points rewards.
Access to this button is governed by a new user role:  “ Issue bonus points”

Released 30.09.2024

New and updated API endpoints

(RTL-6685, RTL-7867, RTL-7196)

Bonus point issue endpoint has been extended with a parameter that allows for authorizing and committing in the same request
A new endpoint for fetching a members bonus point balance has been added.
A new endpoint for calculating bonus points based on a cart(receipt) has been added

For more details on the Bonus service API see swagger documentation here

Export to excel

(RTL-7183)

It is possible to export bonus checks to Excel by filtering the bonus checks grid and clicking " Export to excel"

Currency support

(RTL-6862, RTL-6863, RTL-6865)

When creating a loyalty program it is possible to add a currency configuration.
All bonus checks that are created within that program will use this currency.

Improvements

GET bonus checks balance returns 4 decimals (RTL-7259)

The GET bonus checks balance endpoint now only return values with 2 decimals.

Show which user manually created a bonus check (RTL-6841)

The user that created the bonus check manually in Chain Web user interfase is shown on the transaction line in the details view of the bonus check.

Authorize transactions are being exported (RTL-7500)

Transactions with status Committed or Cancelled are being exported.

Bonus check transaction status missing in details UI (RTL-8013)

Transaction status is visible in bonus check details user interface.

Released 30.11.2023

New endpoint for issuing bonus points through the API

(RTL-6682, RTL-6683, RTL-6684)

Three new methods for handling the issue of bonus points are now available:

Detailed information can be found in our Swagger documentation here

Typo in API calls should not result in 500 (RTL-6878)

Typos (syntax errors) in requests for all calls to BonusService API return 400 bad request with appropriate validation messages.

Released 31.10.2023

Import bonus checks balance

(RTL-4176)

A new import contract has been added, which allows for importing a new bonus check balance for a given member identity.
The job that imports the new balance redeems or issues new bonus checks based on the members previous bonus checks balance.

The contract can be found here: Swagger

Released 30.09.2023

Improved error handling in Bonus check API (RTL-6621)

Improved handling of errors that occur when user is not using the Authorize/Commit/cancel of bonus checks in the correct way. Instead of getting 500 internal server error the correct 400 error message is returned.

Update last used date on bonus checks (RTL-6609)

In some scenarios the "last used date" was not updated when a bonus check was used, this has been corrected and the bonus check user interface now show the proper "last used dates".

Released 31.08.2023

Bonus rules

(RTL-6252, RTL-6254, RTL-6255, RTL-6539)

A new menu item called "Bonus rules" has been added.
It can be found under the sub menu "Setup" in the Loyalty module. This is where bonus rules can be created or edited.
A section called "Bonus check types" has also been added within the bonus rules view.
In this section it is possible to edit the rules of the bonus check types.

Household support

(RTL-5492)

A new system parameter has been added which allows for configuring household support.
If the new parameter is set to true all members within a household share bonus check's balance.

Released 31.07.2023

Issue single bonus check through bonus check user interface

(RTL-6044)

We have added the possibility to issue a single bonus check to a member through the Bonus checks user interface.
If the user has the correct user role a new button is shown in the lower right corner of the user interface.

System parameter user interface

(RTL-6206)

The system parameter user interface for Bonus service has been added.

We have also added a new system parameter which decides if Bonus Service should validate member data
against our internal member master or not:

Bonus checks user interface do not show any bonus checks (RTL-6318)

Fixed an issue where bonus checks did not appear in the Bonus checks user interface.

Released 31.05.2023

New endpoint for issuing a single bonus check through the API

(RTL-4177)

We have added three new methods for handling the issue of a single bonus check:

Detailed information can be found in our Swagger documentation here

Support for different bonus check types

(RTL-5493)

BonusService now supports bonus check types with prefixes that are used when creating new bonus checks:

• External = EXT

• Manual = MAN

• Rollout = ROL

• Return = RET

The three first letters of the bonus check code will contain the prefix of the given bonus check type.
Example of a bonus check with the type "Return": RET8W76THV659

Bonus check details user interface improvements (RTL-5855)

• All amounts are presented with two decimals.

• Norwegian translations for transaction statuses has been improved.

• The correct issued amount is shown for transaction type issue in the transactions grid.