Loyalty in Chain Web
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Loyalty v. 2.10.340

Released on November 11th 2024

Refund failing on timeout (RTL-7790)

Timeouts during refunds should not occur anymore and dispatch order are correctly refunded.


Loyalty v. 2.10.331

Released on September 18th 2024.

Improve SQL timeout Issues with exporting members and member lists (RTL-7727)

When member segment includes members with invalid email addresses then after export to Apsis these members are marked as deleted in [Segmentation].[MemberProfileInSegment] table in database.

Update in active campaign "Available in" to all stores remove all store groups (RTL-7689)

After update availability of event-driven campaign with "Active" status from selected stores to all stores, changes are saved properly into database and it is possible then to fetch coupons from the campaign.

Update Campaign Availability (RTL-7729)

The event-driven campaign availability is updated and saved correctly in both the campaign user interface and database.

Max digest iterations reached (RTL-7765)

The "digest iteration reached" message no longer pops up while entering event-driven campaign details.

Stop in member import (RTL-7557)

There is no more pilling up unprocessed batches, when there occurs a timeout MemberIdentityMerger job finished with Faulted status and empty batch has proper 0 - unprocessed status.

Tag is not cleared when tag source is changed (RTL-7711)

Editing Member Tag source group update correctly the initial segment and target group.
That means, when changing the member tag source from segmentation to the member list, segments connected to the tag are cleared and the tag contains members from the imported file only.

Add retry to MemberTagJob (RTL-7681)

MemberTagJob timeout was increased to 15 minutes and a retry mechanism was implemented. Even if member tags synchronization fails due to timeout, it will be retired and the job display a message with details on how many tags were successfully synchronized, how many failed, and which one failed.

Members get tagged with tags that belong to different loyalty programs (RTL-7694)

Duplicated tags not occur, even if for some reason duplicates appear then jobs work properly and executed with completed status.


Loyalty v. 2.10.321

Released

Released on June 18th 2024.

Importing duplicated members in batch (RTL-7599)

Members can be imported individually. Duplicated members will not be imported.

Split order when it is partially delivered (RTC-41154)

When an order is partially delivered (some order lines), a split is created and non-delivered items are assigned to a dummy store and waiting for reassignment to another store (with available stock) that can handle and deliver the rest of the order.

Freight items is always reassigned to the store that can handle picking orders first.


Loyalty v. 2.10.315

Released 13th November 2024

Tags are not cleared like it is required by reporting (RTL-8015)

When tag source is changed to "Import members from file" then reporting N_job properly handle it and update number of members assign to this tag in Reporting database - the old ones are cleared and only new members are available. In Retail database members from member source have Deleted status equal to 1, and these imported from file equal to 0.


Loyalty v. 2.10.313

Released 27th August 2024

Update Campaign Availability (RTL-7729)

The event-driven campaign availability is updated and saved correctly in both the campaign user interface and database.

Max digest iterations reached (RTL-7765)

The "digest iteration reached" message no longer pops up while entering event-driven campaign details.

Tag is not cleared when tag source is changed (RTL-7711)

Editing Member Tag source group update correctly the initial segment and target group.
That means, when changing the member tag source from segmentation to the member list, segments connected to the tag are cleared and the tag contains members from the imported file only.

Members get tagged with tags that belong to different loyalty programs (RTL-7694)

Duplicated tags not occur, even if for some reason duplicates appear then jobs work properly and executed with completed status.


Loyalty v. 2.10.312

Released 26th June

Improve SQL timeout Issues with exporting members and member lists (RTL-7727)

When member segment includes members with invalid email addresses then after export to Apsis these members are marked as deleted in [Segmentation].[MemberProfileInSegment] table in database.

Update in active campaign "Available in" to all stores remove all store groups (RTL-7689)

After update availability of event-driven campaign with Active status from selected stores to all stores, changes are saved properly into database and it is possible then to fetch coupons from the campaign.

Add retry to MemberTagJob (RTL-7681)

MemberTagJob timeout was increased to 15 minutes and a retry mechanism was implemented. Even if member tags synchronization fails due to timeout, it will be retired and the job display a message with details on how many tags were successfully synchronized, how many failed, and which one failed.


Loyalty v. 2.10.310

02 May 2024

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Loyalty campaign

Support edit of segmentation criteria in active campaign (RTL-6600)

It is possible to edit segmentation criteria in active event-driven campaigns.


Loyalty v. 2.10.30998

10 Oct 2024

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Dispatch order

Refund failing on timeout (RTL-7790)

Timeouts during refunds should not occur anymore and dispatch order are correctly refunded.


Loyalty v. 2.10.3095

25 Apr 2024

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

BackOfficeImport

Importing duplicated members in batch (RTL-7599)

Members can be imported individually. Duplicated members will not be imported.


Loyalty v. 2.10.306

25 Apr 2024

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Order dispatch

Split picking order if some of the items are deliverable (RTC-39914)

Picking orders are split when some of the item's are deliverable and dispatched to dispatching store with the freight item:

  • Items that are available for picking + freight item(s) are sent to Chain Web/dispatch store

  • Items not available for picking are assigned and stay at the dummy store

When previously unavailable items are ready to be picked, the automatic reassign job assigns them (from dummy store) to CW/dispatchstore and exports a picking order.

Splitting order between dummy store and dispatching stores is only possible when Delete of order lines is not allowed.

Store that can deliver the whole order should be prioritized (we rely on dispatch suggestion and what is provided there).


Loyalty v. 2.10.302

28 Mar 2024

Improvement

Area

Description

Loyalty campaign

Support edit of segmentation criteria in active campaign (RTL-6600)

It is possible to edit segmentation criteria in active event-driven campaigns.


Loyalty v. 2.10.292

Date: 26 Jan 2024

Improvement

Area

Description

Loyalty campaign

ExternalCampaignImport and Process jobs stops working after some time (RTL-6808)

ExternalCampaignImport and ExternalCampaignProcess jobs are using more reliable way to process import and creation of external member coupons.

Member segmentation

Change the behavior of sales period "Next sale" (RTL-6709)

When using sales period "Next sale" in segmentation, the member count in group summary shows 0. There are no member actually added to this Segment yet since there has not been a next sale.

Stamp card campaign

Changing images for stamp cards in an active campaign (RTL-7012)

Its possible to change images for stamp cards in an active campaign. The new images are correctly shown in the User interface after the page is refreshed.


Loyalty v. 2.10.282

Date: 05 Jan 2024

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Member segmentation

Change the behavior of sales period "Next sale" (RTL-6709)

When using sales period "Next sale" in segmentation, the member count in group summary shows 0. There are no member actually added to this Segment yet since there has not been a next sale.

Stamp Card Campaign

Changing images for stamp cards in an active campaign (RTL-7012)

Its possible to change images for stamp cards in an active campaign. The new images are correctly shown in the User interface after the page is refreshed.

Loyalty v. 2.10.280

Date: 06 Dec 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Member segmentation

Cleanup segmentation component (RTL-6962)

Filter groups in segmentation are calculated correctly without additional calls.


Loyalty v. 2.10.270

Document status:

Date: 25 Oct 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

Apsis integration

Change Method For Fetching Newsletters (RTL-6746)

A new way of fetching newsletters was implemented resulting in no waiting time or timeouts in Chain Web when fetching them.

Handle Duplicated Demographic Fields (RTL-6543)

Member Export and ApsisCampaignDistribution jobs handle duplicates in demographic data configuration and log warnings when the wrong configuration of demographic data is detected.

Mailing List Cleanup Job for Deleting Mailing Lists After Sendout in APSIS (RTL-6432)

MailingListCleanup job was created in the Apsis Integration. The job is responsible for deleting mailing lists from Apsis that were used for email distribution and are older than 30 days. Job will run longer on the first run since it will also delete all historical mailing lists by matching mailing list id or mailing list name to campaign names.

BonusVoucherDistribution

BonusVoucherDistribution failing after 1h runtime and calculation stuck "calculating" (RTL-6534)

"Paging" has been added to BonusVoucherCalculationJob to improve the performance and stability of the job during long runtimes.
The default value of The Paging mechanism is 100 000,but it can be configured to the specific needs of the environment.
Additionally an extension to the job log has been introduced to also log information about which Rollout is being calculated.

Stamp card

Fetching Stamp Cards for Members (RTL-6470)

Fetching Stamp cards for members in the CloudStampCardForMember job is performed without timeout. All active stamp cards for members are visible in MyPage.


Loyalty v. 2.10.262

Document status:

Date: 09 Oct 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

Apsis integration

Change Method for Fetching Newsletters (RTL-6746)

A new way of fetching newsletters was implemented resulting in no waiting time or timeouts in Chain Web when fetching them.


Loyalty v. 2.10.261

Document status:

Date: 06 Sep 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

External campaign

Edit availability (RTC-30714)

It is now possible to add stores to an ongoing External Campaign as well as remove them through clicking "Edit" in the availability section.

Event-driven campaign

Adding Bonus as Reward Breaks the campaign Setup (RTL-6292)

Adding a bonus reward does not break the event-driven campaign setup. The defined bonus reward is reflected on the distribution dashboard and is possible to edit or delete.

Mailchimp integration

SyncsubscriptionFromMailchimp runs for very long time (RTL-5615)

SyncSubscriptionsFromMailChimp job process data without timeout. SegmentExport job is able to process over 300 000 members without timeout.

Member campaigns

Missing Tabs When Creating an External Member Campaign (RTL-6264)

All tabs are available in external member campaigns. The correct offer type is shown in the campaign summary.

Target and control groups (RTC-32884)

The procedure reporting.usp_GetMemberGroupCount that imports member group data into Reporting has been altered to correctly fetch all member groups from Retail database.

Segmentation

Segment cleanup job getting faulted daily (RTL-6390)

SegmentCleanup job doesn't fail when fetching cleanup data containing tens of thousands of distribution channels.

Segment cleanup failing due to datetime conversion (RTL-6118)

Datetime conversion has been updated. SegmentCleanup job do not fail when checking if anything is up for deletion. SegmentCleanup job delete old segments properly.


Loyalty v. 2.10.253

Document status:

Date: 28 Sep 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

Apsis integration

Change Method for Fetching Newsletters (RTL-6746)

A new way of fetching newsletters was implemented resulting in no waiting time or timeouts in Chain Web when fetching them.


Loyalty v. 2.10.251

Document status:

Date: 23 Jun 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

Event-Driven Campaign

Adding Bonus as Reward Breaks the Campaign Setup (RTL-6292)

Adding a bonus reward does not break the event-driven campaign setup. The defined bonus reward is reflected on the distribution dashboard and is possible to edit or delete.

Member campaigns

Target and control groups (RTC-32542)

The procedure reporting.usp_GetMemberGroups that imports member group data into Reporting has been altered to correctly fetch all member groups from Retail database.

Missing Tabs When Creating an External Member Campaign (RTL-6264)

All tabs are available in external member campaigns. The correct offer type is shown in the campaign summary.

Member details

Member Activities not Translated in Edge (RTL-5807)

The activity column in Member Details is shown in the language that is picked in Account Chain Web Settings.

Campaign offer

Timeout when browsing offer coupons (RTL-5785)

Two columns (first and last name) have been removed from coupon grid in campaign offer in order to reduce time of server response.


Loyalty v. 2.10.245

Document status:

Date: 14 Jul 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

External campaign

Edit mode for Stores was added to the external campaigns viability (RTC-30714)

  • It is possible to add stores to an ongoing External campaign as well as remove them.

  • It is not possible to edit "Valid from" and "Valid to" to an ongoing External campaign.

  • It is possible to use coupons in newly added stores.

Event-Driven campaign

Adding Bonus as Reward Breaks the Campaign Setup (RTL-6292)

Adding a bonus reward does not break the event-driven campaign setup. The defined bonus reward is reflected on the distribution dashboard and is possible to edit or delete.

Mailchimp integration

SyncsubscriptionFromMailchimp runs for very long time (RTL-5615)

SyncSubscriptionsFromMailChimp job process data without timeout. SegmentExport job is able to process over 300 000 members without timeout.


Loyalty v. 2.10.244

Document status:

Date: 22 Jun 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Member campaign

Missing Tabs When Creating an External Member Campaign (RTL-6264)

All tabs are available in external member campaigns. The correct offer type is shown in the campaign summary.


Loyalty v. 2.10.243

Document status:

Date: 14 Jun 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

Member campaigns

Target and control groups (RTC-32542)

The procedure reporting.usp_GetMemberGroups that imports member group data into Reporting has been altered to correctly fetch all member groups from Retail database.

Member details

Member Activities Not Translated in Edge (RTL-5807)

The activity column in Member Details is shown in the language that is picked in Account Chain Web Settings.


Loyalty v. 2.10.242

Document status:

Date: 29 May 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Area

Description

Campaign offer

Timeout when browsing offer coupons (RTL-5785)

Two columns (first and last name) have been removed from coupon grid in campaign offer in order to reduce time of server response.


Loyalty v. 2.10.241

Document status:

Date: 28 Apr 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Area

Description

Event-driven campaign

Make Offer Available as soon as Possible Including First Purchase Checkbox (RTL-5852)

The 'Make offer available as soon as possible including first purchase.' checkbox registers every click and is represented in the First Distribution step correctly.

Recalculate Member Segment when Campaign is Active (RTL-5699)

It is possible to recalculate the member segment in an event-driven campaign when the campaign is in 'Active' mode. The Recalculate button is not disabled when the campaign is 'Active'.

Duplicate new member first sale coupon (RTL-5678)

AutomatedCampaignJob handles duplicate coupons created by MemberEventHandler or AutomatedCampaign job for Event-Driven Campaigns with target group New Members and 'Make offer available as soon as possible including first purchase' checked. An older duplicate coupon is removed the next time an Automated Campaign job run for that campaign.

Facebook integration

Update API for Facebook Integration (RTL-5345)

The updated API for Facebook Integration allows to:

  • Export segment to Facebook's custom audience in an ads account.

  • Remove invalid members (end membership/opt-out from data analysis) from Facebook's custom audience in an ads account.

MailChimp

ResponseImport null reference when fetching activities (RTL-5614)

Null values returned by MailChimp are now handled by ResponseImportJob. This prevents the error: "Value cannot be null".

Member campaign

Missing Translation of 'send test sms' Dialog (RTL-4867)

The header and body of the 'Send test sms' dialog has the correct text in EN , NO and SE for all campaign types.

A/B Testing remove dependence to offer (RTL-5077)

It is possible to test metrics that don't depend on an offer without having to define the offer. If an offer is not defined, the winning criteria that depend on sales metrics are not shown in the winning criteria selection.


Loyalty v. 2.10.231

Document status:

Date: 08 May 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

Event-driven campaign

Make Offer Available as soon as Possible Including First Purchase Checkbox (RTL-5852)

The 'Make offer available as soon as possible including first purchase.' checkbox registers every click and is represented in the First Distribution step correctly.


Loyalty v. 2.10.230

Document status:

Date: 27 Mar 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Event-driven Stamp card campaign

(RTL-4552)

The promotion from stamp card campaign can be used as reward in event driven campaign. In that case we create stamp card campaign with given promotion and select 'Active event driven campaign' as target group. Then we create event-driven campaign and in distribution step select 'New stamp card reward'.

In this case member who meets the conditions of first campaign (event-driven) will be added as reward to stamp card campaign.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Populate new demographic field "MostUsedStoreName" in Apsis with store name connected to MemberTagMostUsedStore (RTL-5349)

The demographic field "MostUsedStoreName" is exported to Apsis. Field stays empty if tag is not connected to member.

Automated campaign

Processing of MemberCustomEventHandler (RTL-4048)

  • Multiple segments are not created in the newly activated campaign.

  • MemberCustomEventHandler job handles parallel processing.

  • Multiple segments are only created for the first request for a given campaign when requests are processed at the same time.

External campaign

New members should get a discount in their first purchase (RTL-5509)

Target group in external campaign has been extended by second option 'New member including first purchase'. With this option the campaign will target only new members created in POS who made their first purchase. For 'External source' the campaign will work as previously - the target group will come from external service.

Event-driven campaign

Availability in selected stores (RTL-4536)

When creating a new event-driven campaign and choosing the option "Selected stores", it is not possible to proceed without selecting stores. The "Create" button is greyed out.

MailChimp

SegmentExportJob execution when plain text template is missing (RTL-5508)

Mailchimp integration triggers campaign without plain text version of template.

Members

Completed campaigns visible in member details (RTL-5262)

Completed campaigns are only visible in member details if the member still has active coupons connected to it.

Translations of the age validation message (RTL-4549)

The age validation message is correctly translated into English, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Member campaign

Reporting Export: Automated Campaign Target Type (RTL-5798)

The Stored Procedure reporting.usp_GetActiveCampaigns_v6 does not mark the campaign with AutomatedCampaign target type as non 'AllMembers' campaign. As a result, the RT-Job in reporting does not fail due to receiving a member segment for a campaign that is understood by export procedure to be an 'AllMember' campaign.

Failing AutomatedCampaign Job in Demo Environment (RTL-5830)

When a StampCard campaign with an AutomatedCampaign target group is created the AutomatedCampaignJob handles the responsibility to create empty stamp cards for members preventing the TransactionCollector job to create duplicates of empty stamp cards for members.

Member segmentation

Segment on Bonus Rollouts - Too Long Name (RTL-5191)

Long names of Bonus roll-outs are trimmed and do not exceed 40 characters when being passed to Bridge.

Reporting Integration

MemberTagMostUsedStore job improvements (RTL-5273)

  • MemberTagMostUsedStore job batches processing of member data.

  • MemberTagMostUsedStore processes 1M members within 1h.


Loyalty v. 2.10.224

Document status:

Date: 01 Mar 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

External campaign

New members should get a discount in their first purchase (RTL-5509)

Target group in external campaign has been extended by second option 'New member including first purchase'. With this option the campaign will target only new members created in POS who made their first purchase. For 'External source' the campaign will work as previously - the target group will come from external service.


Loyalty v. 2.10.221

Document status:

Date: 01 Feb 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

Member segmentation

Segment on Bonus Rollouts - Too Long Name (RTL-5191)

Long names of Bonus roll-outs are trimmed and do not exceed 40 characters when being passed to Bridge.


Loyalty v. 2.10.220

Document status:

Date: 01 Feb 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Apsis - Synchronizing opt-outs (RTL-5179)

Improved mechanism for synchronizing to avoid skipping opt-outs marked in APSIS.

Dashboard

All members dashboard count (RTL-4890)

Member count in the dashboard is based on the actual number of members in the target group when the campaign is for all members.

Event-driven campaign

Duplicate information in the activation summary (RTL-4870)

Information about not defined required elements is not duplicated.

Support for multiple distribution channels on split criteria (RTL-4288)

It is possible to set both e-mail and SMS as distribution channels for a split criteria in an event-driven campaign.

MailChimp integration

SyncSubcriptionsToMailChimp - Reliability fix (RTL-5410)

MailChimp package is no longer causing integration platform crash when handling exceptions.

Members

Member details view (RTL-5252)

After creating a new member in Chain Web member details view load straight away.

Not possible to open member details view (RTL-4818)

Member details load without error even if the member has a Bonus reward and did not approve member terms

Member campaign

SMS message incorrectly displayed for active campaign (RTL-5292)

Variables in SMS message editor for active campaign are displayed correctly.

Member segment

Segment on coupons and campaign (RTL-4423)

It is possible to filter on coupon status and the campaign where coupons were generated:
Coupon -> Campaign -> InList -> List of campaigns with coupons.

An info box was added next to the "Received Campaign" filter with the text:

  • EN: "Members who have received distribution"

  • NO: "Medlemmer som har mottatt en distribusjon"

  • SE: "Medlemmar som har mottagit en distribution"

Stamp card

Member Management - Stamp cards (RTL-5297)

Stamp card campaign names are correctly displayed in member details.

Add new stores to an active Stamp Card Campaign (RTL-4554)

It is possible to choose which stores the campaign should be available in when creating it, and it is possible to add newly configured stores to an ongoing Stamp Card campaign.


Loyalty v. 2.10.215

Document status:

Date: 10 Feb 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Populate new demographic field "MostUsedStoreName" in Apsis with store name connected to MemberTagMostUsedStore (RTL-5349)

The demographic field "MostUsedStoreName" is exported to Apsis. Field stays empty if tag is not connected to member.

Members

Completed campaigns visible in member details (RTL-5262)

Completed campaigns are only visible in member details if the member still has active coupons connected to it.


Loyalty v. 2.10.2191

Document status:

Date: 27 Sep 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Change Method For Fetching Newsletters (RTL-6746)

A new way of fetching newsletters was implemented resulting in no waiting time or timeouts in Chain Web when fetching them.


Loyalty v. 2.10.213

Document status:

Date: 20 Jan 2023

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Members

Member details view (RTL-5252)

After creating a new member in Chain Web member details view load straight away.

Member campaign

SMS message incorrectly displayed for active campaign (RTL-5292)

Variables in SMS message editor for active campaign are displayed correctly.


Loyalty v. 2.10.211

Document status:

Date: 23 Dec 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Apsis - Synchronizing opt-outs (RTL-5179)

Improved mechanism for synchronizing to avoid skipping opt-outs marked in APSIS.

MailChimp

SyncSubscriptionsFromMailchimp job synchronizes status changes from MailChimp without errors (RTL-4863)

  • Subscription data is successfully synchronized from Mailchimp

  • Execution details of synchronization are saved to the database


Loyalty v. 2.10.210

Document status:

Date: 23 Dec 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Edit Age Range in First Criteria for ''Members with Birthday'' in Event-Driven Campaigns

(RTL-4899)

The list of age ranges to choose from in the first criteria of the Event-Driven campaign was extended:

  • There is a list of dates to choose from when choosing: "Members with birthday today" and "In list"/''Not in list''

  • The age range has an increment of 5 and has the range: 10 - 110.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Sale data in member export (RTL-4907)

Export to Apsis contains:

  • Date and time of most recent purchase/receipt.

  • Store number where the most recent purchase took place.

  • Store Name where the most recent purchase took place.

If members are new or there are no data connected to their last purchase the fields are blank in the export.

Illegal Characters in MemberExport (RTL-4561)

Member Export does not fail due to illegal XML characters in member data.
That means, If export data contains characters not supported by XML, they are removed and the export completes successfully.

Bonus in Chain Web

Wrong Translations (RTL-3787)

The correct Norwegian translation has been implemented for the Bonus Amount section in Chain Web.

Campaign offer

Mix 28 - reuse on same receipt marked required (RTL-4817)

Reuse on same receipt - Defined number is required when setting offer type. The customer is not allowed to set up the campaign and the status is "Incomplete" until the value is set.

  • Reuse on same receipt -  Defined number is marked as required in mix 28.

  • The border of the Defined number field turns red when you try to save without a value entered.

Event-driven campaign

Activating event-driven campaign with dates in the past is not allowed (RTL-4642)

  • Activating a campaign with a "valid from" date in the past is not possible.

  • The "valid from" date of a campaign in draft mode changes to today's date when clicking "Activate" and today's date is shown as the "valid from" date in the campaign summary.

  • Editing a campaign, setting valid from date to date in the past is not allowed.

  • The user needs to check a check box that states that the campaign period is correct.

Campaign status after editing active campaign period (RTL-4452)

Editing planned campaign and setting its valid date to past (or current) date will change the campaign status to Active.

Editing active campaign and setting its valid date to future one will change the campaign status to Planned.

Mailchimp integration

Mailchimp - Improve log/create member management (RTL-5125)

Log management has been improved, which should improve use of resources by the package.

Introduced alternative way of creating members for specific scenarios.

Mailchimp - improve dependency management (RTL-5116)

Dependency management has been improved, which should decrees use of resources by the package.

Mailchimp - remove legacy message lock renew ((RTL-5078)

MailChimp is using built-in Integration Platform mechanism for renewing service bus message lock.

Domain validation false positives (RTL-4975)

When there is a domain validation issue a warning is logged(not error) and the validation does not fail.

SyncSubscriptionsToMailChimpJob is completed when an invalid email is in the list (RTL-4840)

SyncSubscriptionsToMailChimpJob is completed successfully when an invalid email is in the list. The job log contains information about why the email address is invalid, but the job does not fail.

Member campaign

Missing Translation in Test Groups in AB Testing (RTL-5031)

Translations have been added to the test group in AB Testing when the distribution channel = SMS.

"Edit campaign" and "Stop Campaign" buttons (RTL-4712)

"Edit campaign" and "Stop Campaign" buttons do not appear in campaigns that are in "Completed" or "Draft" state.

Activate the campaign when past dates are set (RTL-4644)

It is not possible to activate campaigns with a start date in the past. If a draft has been created and the date is in the past, it will automatically change to today's date if one tries to activate it. A warning is shown in the campaign summary when this happens to alert the user.

Member segmentation

Sales Fields in Excel Export in Member Segmentation (RTL-4965)

New fields:

  • Last purchase date

  • Last purchase store number

  • Last purchase store name

These fields were added to the export of members' segments to Excel. That means data on the last purchase of the member is correctly exported and presented in the excel file. The new fields are empty when there is no data related to the last purchase.

Last sale store (RTL-4967)

The last sale store is imported into Lindbak Retail using the SaleImport job (ReportingIntegration package).

Member tags

Make changes to demographic field Store manager (RTL-4908)

Added a new parameter "UseStoreManagerFromTag" which defines how the store manager name will be fetched.

  • If UseStoreManagerFromTag = false - the existing logic for fetching store manager name will be used. StoreGroupId of store manager's store will be matched against HomeStoreGroupId of the member profile. This is the default value.

  • If UseStoreManagerFromTag = true - The store manager name corresponds with the store linked to MemberTagMostUsedStore


Loyalty v. 2.10.201

Document status:

Date: 31 Oct 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

Campaign offer

Mix 28 - reuse on same receipt marked required (RTL-4817)

Reuse on same receipt - Defined number is required when setting offer type. The customer is not allowed to set up the campaign and the status is "Incomplete" until the value is set.

  • Reuse on same receipt -  Defined number is marked as required in mix 28.

  • The border of the "Defined number" field turns red when you try to save without a value entered.


Loyalty v. 2.10.200

Document status:

Date: 31 Oct 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

MemberExport fails due to database timeout (RTL-4677)

Apsis MemberExport does not timeout on normal export running every 20 minutes.

Reduce Batch Size in each request from 1999 to 1500 (RTL-4631)

The batch size of data export to APSIS using the Member Export logic were reduced from 1999 to 1500.

Bonus Voucher distribution

Member has not received Welcome Voucher (RTL-3826)

  • WelcomeVoucherJob is retried when member is not found in Retail DB.

  • WelcomeVoucherJob is retried 10 times.

  • Time between WelcomeVoucherJob retries is 1 minute.

Event-driven campaign

Distribution priority change (RTL-4706)

When changing the distribution priority and confirming the changes the new value is correctly displayed in the user interface.

MailChimp integration

MailChimp settings (RTL-4788)

Initialization of MalChimp settings have been improved.

Member campaign

Visibility of offers in member dashboard after completing the campaign (RTL-4569)

Offers are visible in the member dashboard if members have valid coupons for that offer.

Standard campaign - Coupons are not available even when expire coupons is not checked (RTL-4568)

When the new option for expiring coupons is not checked the coupons are available for use until the expiration date configured in the campaign.

Appropriate error message when member segmentation permission is missing (RTL-4436)

A descriptive error message is shown if a user tries to open Campaign details when missing the necessary role

Error message content:

  • EN: Missing user role: Access to member segments view is required.

  • NO: Manglende brukerroller: Tilgang til skjermbildet medlemssegment er påkrevd.

  • SE: Saknad användarroll: Det krävs tillåtelse för att visa medlemssegment.


Loyalty v. 2.10.191

Document status:

Date: 04 Nov 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Member campaign

Visibility of offers in member dashboard after completing the campaign (RTL-4569)

Offers are visible in the member dashboard if members have valid coupons for that offer.

Standard campaign - Coupons are not available even when expire coupons is not checked (RTL-4568)

When the new option for expiring coupons is not checked the coupons are available for use until the expiration date configured in the campaign.


Loyalty v. 2.10.190

Document status:

Date: 06 Oct 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

New choices when ending a campaign

(RTL-4412)

New option when ending a campaign. The user can decide if coupons from related offer should be expired or not:

If the user select 'Expire all active coupons in campaign':

  • Campaign and offer status change to cancelled.

  • Coupons are expired .

If the user do not select 'Expire all active coupons in campaign':

  • Campaign and offer status change to completed.

  • 'Valid to' date for Campaign and offer will change to 'Today's date'.

  • Coupons will be available for members to use until the expiration date set when creating offer.

Not possible to search for segment in Campaign

(RTL-2518)

It is possible to use lowercase and wildcard * as suffix when searching for segments and it is possible to search for any available segment longer than 2 characters. The created date is also fully visible.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis Integration

Improve campaign distribution resiliency (RTL-4451)

Campaign distribution will retry communicating with APSIS if any connection issue occur.

Campaign Offer

Removing required elements of an offer (RTL-3972)

For an active campaign it is no longer possible to remove required elements when edit mode is turned on. All elements must be completed to activate changes:

Event-driven Campaigns

Update description in customer journey preferences window (RTL-4535)

Customer journey preferences have the correct English description.

It is possible to edit split criteria when campaign is not in draft state (RTL-4277)

Split Criteria is only editable in draft mode or draft state.

External Campaign

Defined number of coupons in Member campaign does not work (RTL-4449)

Max use count, which determines the maximum allowed uses of coupon, is imported when the offer is created.

Member Campaigns

Date of Availability and Distribution (RTL-3978)

  • If the distribution date is outside of the campaign period when editing a campaign, the distribution date is set to the campaigns "valid from" date.

  • If the distribution date is changed a warning is displayed when activating the campaign.

  • If the distribution time is outside the campaign period a warning is shown when activating the campaign.

  • The warnings are shown both in "Activation summary" for campaigns in "draft mode" and when clicking activate from "Edit mode".

Discard changes window (RTL-3886)

Discard changes window is now working properly.
Clicking on the buttons ('Yes', 'No' and 'X') has the expected results:

  • The Discard changes window is only shown when changes has been made to the form and another distribution is selected.

  • When selecting 'yes' the changes are discarded.

  • When selecting 'No' or 'X' the dialog box closes.

MailChimp Integration

Faulted segment ExportJob and mail distribution (RTL-4256)

The SegmentExportJob for Mailchimp Integration does not fail when processing more than 200 000 members.

Mailchimp ServiceAgent - version with logging (RTL-4184)

MailChimp API logs its actions.

Email Validator (RTL-3911)

  • MailChimp integration detects invalid emails and marks them as invalid in Member Service.

  • In case of an invalid email, SyncSubcriptionToMailChimp doesn't throw exception nor create a dead-letter.

Member Management

Campaign Offers Include different Loyalty program (RTL-4323)

The member profile contains information about offers for standard campaigns that comes from the same loyalty program as the member. It is no longer possible to receive an offer from a different loyalty program.

Member Segmentation

Tag category with "All" operator (RTL-4315)

The 'All' operator for the category "tag" returns only members within the given tag category.

Standard Campaign

Distribution template (RTL-4380)

The list of available templates are from the campaign's loyalty program. It is not possible to select a distribution template from another loyalty program.

Two offers in one campaign (RTL-4276)

It is not possible to add two offers to a standard campaign.


Loyalty v. 2.10.185

Document status:

Date: 15 Nov 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Campaign offer

Mix 28 - reuse on same receipt marked required (RTL-4817)

Reuse on same receipt - Defined number is required when setting offer type. The customer is not allowed to set up the campaign and the status is "Incomplete" until the value is set.

  • Reuse on same receipt -  Defined number is marked as required in mix 28.

  • The border of the "Defined number" field turns red when you try to save without a value entered.

Member campaign

"Edit campaign" and "Stop Campaign" buttons (RTL-4712)

"Edit campaign" and "Stop Campaign" buttons do not appear in campaigns that are in "Completed" or "Draft" state.


Loyalty v. 2.10.184

Document status:

Date: 19 Oct 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

Event-driven Campaign

Distribution priority change (RTL-4706)

When changing the distribution priority and confirming the changes the new value is correctly displayed in the user interface.


Loyalty v. 2.10.180

Document status:

Date: 05 Sep 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Zeroing out date of birth in MemberInfo Service

(RTL-4285)

It is now possible to register as a member without entering a Date Of Birth. It is also possible to clear the Date Of Birth via MemberInfoService and MemberService.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis Integration

Update Email Validator in apsis Integration Package (RTL-4189)

Email validation has been updated in Apsis Interaction Package with RFC compliant email validator.

Campaign Offer

Selected tab display (RTL-3838)

After saving for the first time during creation of a new campaign offer, the currently selected tab is correctly displayed.

Displaying the coupon layout image (RTL-3837)

Added image in the Coupon Layout tab should be displayed after saving for the first time.

Coupon Service

Import external member coupons (RTL-3934)

External member coupons can be imported into EG system using FileService. Imported external member coupons can be used in EG POS.

CouponService.Import.ExternalMemberCoupon is available in CouponService swagger using new doc tool.

Event-driven Campaigns

Distribution send time (RTL-4112)

Distribution send time is updated with the current time after the segmentation sales filter is updated

The send time in first distribution summary changes when switching between first criteria and distribution Tab (RTL-4113)

  • The distribution send time in the 'First Distribution' summary remains the same as the one set in the 'Distribution Time' section.

  • Switching between the 'First Criteria' and 'First Distribution' steps does not influence the distribution send time summary in the 'First Distribution' step.

Customer Journey user interface - bonus reward (RTL-3895)

  • It is not possible to edit bonus check/bonus reward in active campaign.

  • Offer grid is not visible when there are no offers and the campaign is active.

Switching between steps (RTL-3867)

There are no longer generated any errors when changing quickly between steps in the Customer Journey tab.

Customer Journey user interface (RTL-3812)

After coming back to the Customer Journey tab, Stop Campaign and Edit Campaign buttons are not visible with distribution criteria opened.

MailChimp Integration

Campaign template in MailChimp with an added target group (RTL-4283)

  • It is not possible to select a campaign from MailChimp containing a segment as a distribution template.

  • A message informing that segmentation is already added to this template is displayed.

Add support for Double Opt-in Re-subscribing in Mailchimp (RTL-2878)

Members can now be re-subscribed in MailChimp when double opt-in is required.

Members

Misalignment of fields and text (RTL-3845)

All elements in 'Create a New Member' view have consistent alignment.

Member Campaigns

Segmentation Version Exception (RTL-4182)

Changes performed in segmentations terms do not trigger error with status code 460.

Dropdown List in Distribution Plan (RTL-3990)

The channel type dropdown box can be expanded only by clicking directly on the dropdown list.

Confirmations in campaign summary (RTL-3914)

Confirmations in campaign summary are always uncheck for reopening activation window.

Editing availability (RTL-3817)

Selected stores are preselected during editing of already created campaign.

System

Welcome coupon (RTL-3759)

A coupon is generated by the MemberEventsHandler job after the new member has fully registered for membership. The welcome coupon is available immediately.

Voyado Integration

Voyado coupons (RTL-4272)

Voyado coupons are correctly imported with and empty expiration date.


Loyalty v. 2.10.170

Document status:

Date: 15 Aug 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis Integration

Update Email Validator in Apsis Integration Package (RTL-4189)

Email validation has been updated in Apsis Interaction Package with RFC compliant email validator.

Reduce deadletters (RTL-3780)

SyncSubscriptionJob correctly handles executions lasting more than 30s but no longer than 2min, which should reduce number of deadletters due to lost locks on service bus events.

Process target group before email send out (RTL-2079)

For standard campaign selected segment for target group is processed before the email send out - immediately after activating standard campaign.

BackOfficeImport

Create audit fields are overwritten for existing data (RTL-4059)

Data synchronization between Retail and Loyalty database by LpMemberMerger job does not updated CreatedBy and CreatedDate audit fields. Welcome emails are not triggered for existing members.

Event Driven Campaign

Unfinished message (RTL-3505)

Campaign activation dialog contains warning if offer is not complete and campaign cannot be activated. Warning contains link to campaign offer.

Campaign details (RTL-4111)

Event-driven campaigns displayed in member details correctly link to event-driven campaign user interface in Chain Web.

MailChimp Integration

Decimals in expiring loyalty amount (RTL-3984)

MemberExport job (from MailChimp Integration package) export bonus amount after rounding with two decimal places.

Member Campaign

Editing Message in SMS Distribution (RTL-3811)

The message editor is blocked when the SMS distribution edition is unavailable.

Using Operator All in member segmentation (RTL-3418)

Segmentation containing 'All' operator is processed without exceptions when used in an Event-driven campaign.

Member Segmentation

Recalculate shows number from previous used segment (RTL-2971)

Initial segmentation count is set to count from DB when switching between segmentation and AutomaticallyRefreshSegmentation = false. Moreover, after switching segment to another and selecting 'recalculate' number do not display (for short time) previous number.

StampCardService

Add support for Multiple Loyalty Programs (RTL-3981)

StampCard service distincts, which members belong to which loyalty program and for 'all members' campaigns type, the service triggers empty stamp cards for members who belong to the loyalty program of created StampCard Campaign.

That means from now on empty standards are created automatically for all members and there is no need to trigger them using POS.


Loyalty v. 2.10.162

Document status:

Date: 30 Aug 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Event-driven campaigns

Distribution send time (RTL-4112)

Distribution send time is updated with the current time after the segmentation sales filter is updated.

The send time in first distribution summary changes when switching between first criteria and distribution tab (RTL-4113)

  • The distribution send time in the 'First Distribution' summary remains the same as the one set in the 'Distribution Time' section.

  • Switching between the 'First Criteria' and 'First Distribution' steps does not influence the distribution send time summary in the 'First Distribution' step.


Loyalty v. 2.10.161

Document status:

Date: 08 Jul 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis Integration

Reduce deadletters (RTL-3780)

SyncSubscriptionJob correctly handles executions lasting more than 30s but no longer than 2min, which should reduce number of deadletters due to lost locks on service bus events.

BackOfficeImport

Create audit fields are overwritten for existing data (RTL-4059)

Data synchronization between Retail and Loyalty database by LpMemberMerger job does not updated CreatedBy and CreatedDate audit fields. Welcome emails are not triggered for existing members.

StampCardService

Add support for Multiple Loyalty Programs (RTL-3981)

StampCard service distincts, which members belong to which loyalty program and for 'all members' campaigns type, the service triggers empty stamp cards for members who belong to the loyalty program of created StampCard Campaign.

That means from now on empty standards are created automatically for all members and there is no need to trigger them using POS.


Loyalty v. 2.10.160

Document status:

Date: 05 Jul 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis Integration

SyncSubscriptionsToApsis: Queued status cannot be null (RTL-3365)

Queued status errors are handled by ApsisIntegration internally without faulting jobs in LIP.

BackOfficeBatchGenerator

Export customers and associations (RTL-1744)

  • Option for exporting associations only has been added to customer export.

  • Association related data is exported with customer export.

BackOfficeService

Return ExternalCouponNumber with coupons (RTL-3890)

External coupon number is returned with coupon from BackOfficeService.

Campaign Offer

Drop-down list of items

After selecting the item list or item group list and clicking anywhere, the drop-down list is not displayed.

Save page when adding offer (RTL-3400)

Active tab in campaign offer is persisted over saving new offer.

Event-driven Campaign

Open/close steps - input navigation (RTL-3856)

  • It is possible to navigate using keyboard arrows between existing distributions and split steps in the customer journey tab.

  • It is possible to close a step by clicking on the background or by opening another step.

When editing a step while selecting or editing an option, the keyboard arrows allow you to navigate between the selections. To navigate between steps, click anywhere in an empty space in the step editing window.

Navigation between steps in an event-driven campaign (RTL-3392)

1. It is possible to navigate between existing distribution and split steps in the customer journey tab using keyboard arrows:

  • Click left/right arrows keys to switch between steps previous/next step and up/down arrows to switch between yes/no splits.

  • If no step is available to the right, then keyboard navigation just closes the step.

  • It is possible to go back to the split step from yes/no step by using left arrow.

2. It is possible to close step by clicking on the background or by opening another step.

3. If changes were made to a given step and navigation occurs then an unsaved changes warning is displayed.

Link Mobility

Includes SMS STOP unsubscribes variable in campaign response (RTL-126)

Unsubscribed variable is shown in campaign distribution dashboard for members who opted out of SMS distributions in a campaign.

Loyalty Campaign

Automated Campaigns : Handle distribution limits processing without distribution (RTL-4034)

Add support for handling distribution limits processing without distribution.

Mailchimp Integration

Retry failed timeouts (RTL-3653)

Failed requests between integration package and Mailchimp due to timeout are handled using retries.

Member Campaign

New members in all member campaign (RTL-3783)

  • New members are added to the campaign if created while the campaign is still active.

  • The user interface in the target group tab shows the checked "All members" radio button.

  • For a campaign which target group is 'All members', all coupons are generated immediately after creating the campaign.

  • Coupons are created for all members that exist during campaign activation. Coupons for new members created after activation are generated upon identification of member in POS.

Extend campaign edit mode (RTL-3747)

It is possible to edit listed properties of member campaigns and offers for active and planned status:

  • Name

  • Description

  • Distributions

    • Email template - for Apsis

    • Email template, subject and text - for MailChimp

    • SMS message and description

    • Distribution time

  • Layout

  • Short description

  • Long description

Control group stats (RTL-3646)

Control group sales details are correctly displayed for a standard campaign when using the control group.

Member Segmentation

Use ColorCode from Sale in Member Segmentation (RTL-3791)

It is possible to create a member campaign with member segmentation on sales using color codes as a target group. The color code is also displayed in the filter in order to distinguish between colors within the same color name.


Loyalty v. 2.10.152

Document status:

Date: 09 Jun 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

Event driven campaign

Navigation between steps in an event-driven campaign (RTL-3392)

1. It is possible to navigate between existing distribution and split steps in the customer journey tab using keyboard arrows:

  • Click left/right arrows keys to switch between steps previous/next step and up/down arrows to switch between yes/no splits.

  • If no step is available to the right, then keyboard navigation just closes the step.

  • It is possible to go back to the split step from yes/no step by using left arrow.

2. It is possible to close step by clicking on the background or by opening another step.

3. If changes were made to a given step and navigation occurs then an unsaved changes warning is displayed.

Open/close steps - input navigation (RTL-3856)

  • It is possible to navigate using keyboard arrows between existing distributions and split steps in the customer journey tab.

  • It is possible to close a step by clicking on the background or by opening another step.

When editing a step while selecting or editing an option, the keyboard arrows allow you to navigate between the selections. To navigate between steps, click anywhere in an empty space in the step editing window.

Member segmentation

Use ColorCode from Sale in Member Segmentation (RTL-3791)

It is possible to create a member campaign with member segmentation on sales using color codes as a target group. The color code is also displayed in the filter in order to distinguish between colors within the same color name.


Loyalty v. 2.10.151

Document status:

Date: 23 May 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvement

Module

Description

Member Campaign

New members in all member campaign (RTL-3783)

  • New members are added to the campaign if created while the campaign is still active.

  • The user interface in the target group tab shows the checked "All members" radio button.

  • For a campaign which target group is 'All members', all coupons are generated immediately after creating the campaign.

  • Coupons are created for all members that exist during campaign activation. Coupons for new members created after activation are generated upon identification of member in POS.


Loyalty v. 2.10.150

Document status:

Date: 11 May 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Use Color code from Sale in Member Segmentation

(RTL-3373)

It is possible to create a member campaign with member segmentation on sales using color codes as a target group. The color code is also be displayed in the filter in order to distinguish between colors within the same color name.

Segment on Bonus Rollout

(RTL-3296)

It is possible to segment members based on the Bonus Rollout they were part of using the Bonus Rollout distribution date or Bonus Rollout name.

Improvements

Module

Description

Bonus

Support bonus amount for discounted items (RTL-3640)

Bonus configuration is correctly updated with new flag allowing to give bonus amount for discounted items.
Updated bonus configuration is correctly returned by bonus endpoint in BackOffice Service.

Campaign offer

Styling of offer details (RTL-3619)

Inscriptions are positioned correctly:

  • Radio buttons are aligned with their labels and the "Offer Period" label.

  • The campaign name/link is aligned with the "Campaign" label.

It is possible to add same item multiple times to item grid (RTL-3038)

It is not possible to add same item multiple times to item grid.

Event-driven campaign

Pre-selected campaign type (RTL-3395)

When clicking "new campaign" in the campaign overview, based on the tab that has been selected, the type of campaign is automatically selected in the create campaign wizard.

Processing a campaign with bonus points reward (RTL-2650)

Event-driven campaign containing bonus reward is processed fully when no members should get the reward.

Canceling edition of decision step (RTL-2342)

When editing split criteria, after clearing the criteria and canceling the edit, the changes are not saved.

First criteria box user interface (RTL-2945)

  • The segment description visible in the first criteria box is deleted after clearing the criteria.

  • After clearing the criteria and adding a new segment, the edit view is present when clicking on the first criteria box.

Member Campaign

It is possible to add multiply offers to the campaign (RTL-3624)

It is not possible to add more than one offer to the campaign. The 'Add new Offer' button is blocked immediately after refreshing the page and thus does not allow for adding another offer.


Loyalty v. 2.10.1492

Document status:

Date: 26 Sep 2023

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Change Method For Fetching Newsletters (RTL-6746)

A new way of fetching newsletters was implemented resulting in no waiting time or timeouts in Chain Web when fetching them.


Loyalty v. 2.10.144

Document status:

Date: 14 Jun 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Module

Description

Member Campaigns

Extend campaign edit mode (RTL-3747)

It is possible to edit listed properties of member campaigns and offers for active and planned status:

  • Name

  • Description

  • Distributions

    • Email template - for Apsis

    • Email template, subject and text - for MailChimp

    • SMS message and description

    • Distribution time

  • Layout

  • Short description

  • Long description


Loyalty v. 2.10.143

Document status:

Date: 12 May 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Module

Description

Member Campaign

New members in all member campaign (RTL-3783)

  • New members are added to the campaign if created while the campaign is still active.

  • The user interface in the target group tab shows the checked "All members" radio button.

  • For a campaign which target group is 'All members', all coupons are generated immediately after creating the campaign.

  • Coupons are created for all members that exist during campaign activation. Coupons for new members created after activation are generated upon identification of member in POS.


Loyalty v. 2.10.142

Document status:

Date: 06 May 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Module

Description

Bonus

Support bonus amount for discounted items (RTL-3640)

Bonus configuration is correctly updated with new flag allowing to give bonus amount for discounted items.
Updated bonus configuration is correctly returned by bonus endpoint in BackOffice Service.


Loyalty v. 2.10.141

Document status:

Date: 25 Apr 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Segment on Bonus Rollout

(RTL-3693)

It is possible to segment members based on the Bonus Rollout they were part of using the Bonus Rollout distribution date or Bonus Rollout name.

Update offer items in an active campaign offer

(RTL-3127)

  • It is possible to either add or replace items in the campaign offer using an item list in edit mode when the campaign offer and campaign is active.

  • When adding item list to campaign offer items display popup asking if items from the list should be added or replace existing items.

  • If replace option is selected then an additional confirmation popup is displayed.

Exclude Selected Stores from Campaigns

(RTL-3126)

The 'All Stores Except from' option was added to campaign availability options. That means, it is possible to precisely define campaign targets stores and exclude not desired ones.

Mix 1004 for discount on all items

(RTL-3187)

Mix 1004 will make it possible to give discount on all items that have no other discounts. "Buy for X and get discount on items with no other discounts"

  • It is possible to configure and use in campaign offer mix 1004.

  • Member campaign coupons are generated based on mix 1004.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis integration

Apsis templates search appearance (RTL-3217)

Time of loading Apsis templates in search window in creating distribution channel is significantly shorter.

Automated Campaign

Commit of birthday coupons fails (RTL-3426)

Member is not added again to campaign before configured delay period between entering campaign.

Loyalty campaign 2.6.1

Filter distribution channels by priority/limit (RTL-3406)

AutomatedCampaign job from LoyaltyCampaign package creates distribution channels based on configured send out limit rules. This configuration determines the maximum number of messages sent to a single member. The value is set in Loyalty Programs configuration - 'Maximum distributions to member per week' field.

Event-driven Campaign have option to determine level of priority for a given distribution. For the highest level of priority '0 - Always send' distribution ignore the limit of sent messages.

Loyalty campaign 2.6.0

Campaign offer

It is possible to add same item multiple times to item grid (RTL-3038)

It is not possible to add same item multiple times to item grid.

Event-driven campaign

Use same wording in Event-driven campaign (RTL-3397)

The same wording is used for member segmentation and the member criteria in the event-driven campaigns: 'Member Segmentation' and 'New segment'.

Edit buttons (RTL-3391)

Edit buttons are hidden when not active in event-driven campaign details view.

Copy existing segmentation in spilt criteria (RTL-3360)

  • Copy existing segmentation can be used in split to attach segmentation.

  • It is not possible to confirm split criteria until segmentation is copied (when copying segmentation).

Not well handled 'Only Follow-Up' status in first distribution step (RTL-3344)

The 'Only Follow-Up' status is calculated correctly in the first distribution step of the Event-Driven campaign.
That means, the Event-Driven campaigns are properly processed and have the possibility to delay and sent the distribution that is planned after the campaign period is finished.

Campaign Status - Only follow-up (RTL-3342)

The 'Only Follow-Up' campaign status is displayed without additional text.
The additional text is shown below as a message to the user.

Slow Loading of Distribution Step (RTL-3002)

The distribution step with tens of thousands of distribution channels attached is being loaded within 3 seconds.

Segmentation

Segment on bonus rollout (RTL-3393)

Adds support for bonus rollout to segmentation engine generating queries to OLAP cube.


Loyalty v. 2.10.130

Document status:

Date: 04 Mar 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

MailChimp Integration

(RTL-3090)

Added retry mechanism to MailChimp Integration, which improves reliability of execution.

Required Configuration:

MailChimp Integration Package 2.6.5.

Export Cloud StampCards as Jsonline

(RTL-3112)

StampCardIntegration package on-premise exports StampCards and StampCardsForMember as Jsonlines to StampCardService.

Required Configuration:

StampCardIntegration 2.3.0 package is required.

Improvements

Module

Description

BonusVoucherDistribution

Import Bonus Rollout data to Lindbak POS Reporting DW (RTL-3120)

@BonusRolloutName is filled when distributing bonus vouchers to loyalty databases. The value in the IsBonusRollout column is 1 for the distributed Bonus Rollout.

Jobs don't create subscriptions (RTL-1669)

  • BonusVoucherDistribution jobs are creating service subscriptions if missing.

  • BonusVoucherDistribution jobs throw an exception if they couldn't start listening to the Service Bus.

CampaignCommands

Filter distribution channels by priority/limit (RTL-2942)

CampaignCommands job from BackOfficeIntegrationSubscriber package creates distribution channels based on configured send out limit rules. This configuration determines the maximum number of messages sent to a single member. The value is set in Loyalty Programs configuration - 'Maximum distributions to member per week' field.

Standard Campaign have option to determine level of priority for a given distribution. For the highest level of priority '0 - Always send' distribution ignore the limit of sent messages.

Event-driven campaign

Members added in an only follow-up (RTL-3107)

When an event-driven campaign is being in 'Only Follow-Up' status it is not possible for new members to join such a campaign. What is more, members that are already within such a campaign are being processed correctly.

Required Configuration:

Loyalty Campaign Package 2.5.8

Enable basic dashboard (RTL-2973)

After activating an event-driven campaign it is possible to monitor and browse its statistics in a dedicated event-driven campaign dashboard.

Unnecessary pop-up 'Current Form Has Unsaved Changes' When Opening the Offer in an Event-Driven Campaign (RTL-2911)

When opening a campaign offer within an active event-driven campaign the unnecessary pop-up 'Current form has unsaved changes' is not being displayed when there is no editing action in the Distribution setting before selecting and being redirected to the offer section.

General

Weekly distribution limit (RTL-2941)

It is possible to configure limit of send-outs per each loyalty program.

MailChimp

Database concurrency while distributing campaign (RTL-3089)

SegmentExport job works correctly even if the data in the database are modified during its work.

Member campaign

Add configuration of distribution channel priority (RTL-3059)

It is possible to configure priority of distribution send-out for channels in Standard and Event-Driven Campaigns.

Campaign availability modal (RTL-2746)

  • "All stores" is the default campaign availability option.

  • After canceling changes in campaign availability modal, they are no longer visible when opening modal again.


Loyalty v. 2.10.124

Document status:

Date: 07 Jul 2022

Version Requirements is located on the menu to the left.

Improvements

Module

Description

Member Campaign

Control group stats (RTL-3646)

Control group sales details are correctly displayed for a standard campaign when using the control group.


Loyalty v. 2.10.121

Document status:

Date: 14 Feb 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Module

Description

Event-driven campaign

Enable basic dashboard (RTL-2973)

After activating an event-driven campaign it is possible to monitor and browse its statistics in a dedicated event-driven campaign dashboard.

General

Weekly distribution limit (RTL-2941)

It is possible to configure limit of send-outs per each loyalty program.

Member campaign

Campaign availability modal (RTL-2746)

  • "All stores" is the default campaign availability option.

  • After canceling changes in campaign availability modal, they are no longer visible when opening modal again.


Loyalty v. 2.10.120

Document status:

Date: 27 Jan 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Module

Description

Campaign offer

Item group information is shown with too much space (RTL-2897)

Rows in grid with offer items (standard and stamp card campaign) are correctly displayed based on item text length/size.

Loyalty campaign

Loyalty Campaign (RTL-3092)

Processing of members in event-driven campaigns with initial segmentation and daily join interval has been fixed.

Required configuration: LoyaltyCampaign package 2.5.6.

Change of Campaign Period Should Default from Date and to Date time correctly (RTL-2754)

Change of campaign period should default to Date time correctly:

  • Change of from date that it is after to date default to date time to 23:59:59.

  • Change of to date that it is before from date default from date time to 00:00:00

Mailchimp

Mailchimp campaigns are not visible in template list (RTL-2960)

All Mailchimp campaigns as templates are visible and selectable in member campaign in templates list.

Member campaigns

Coupons generated without member number (RTL-2959)

Member Coupons without member number or member number consisting of less than 3 digits or more that 18 digits as well as letters or symbols are prohibited. That means, there is no such possibility to create a coupon for non existing member.

All member coupons in coupon service (RTL-2844)

For campaign which target group is 'all members' all coupons are generated immediately after creating the campaign.

Required configuration: Loyalty campaign LIP package 2.5.7.


Loyalty v. 2.10.1092

Document status:

Date: 15 Sep 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Module

Description

External Campaign

Defined number of coupons in Member campaign does not work (RTL-4449)

Max use count, which determines the maximum allowed uses of coupon, is imported when the offer is created.


Loyalty v. 2.10.109

Document status:

Date: 07 Jun 2022

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Module

Description

BackOfficeService

Return ExternalCouponNumber with coupons (RTL-3890)

External coupon number is returned with coupon from BackOfficeService.


Loyalty v. 2.10.100

Document status:

Date: 05 Dec 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Editing active event driven campaigns

(RTL-131)

It is possible to edit active event-driven campaign with its details including campaign offer.

Editing allows:

  • Setting a new to/from date

  • Adding or removing stores from the campaign

  • Modifying articles or articles groups in the campaign offer

  • Changing price rule in the campaign offer and changing value of the discount, if it was not initially defined

In order to edit the campaign/offer the "Edit Campaign" or ''Edit Offer'' buttons need to be used.

Improvements

Module

Description

Apsis

ApsisCampaignDistribution should validate distribution status (RTL-2579)

Email distribution should run only once when distribution is in 'Running' status. Erroneous triggering of already 'Distributed' distribution should fail.

Required configuration: ApsisIntegration LIP package 1.8.9.

Statistics from Apsis in Member campaign are successfully fetched (RTL-2026)

ResponseImport Job from ApsisIntegration works as expected. Query is executing optimally and successfully even if the amount of user activity data is more than 2,100.

BackOffice

Generic error is shown when member service returns status 610 (email already exists) (RTL-2014)

In case of adding new member for email which already exists as web userID of another member user get properly message on the web page.

Status 610 is descripted properly in the message in Event Viewer.

Campaign offer

Mix 44 is not validated correctly (RTL-2747)

It is now possible to active standard member campaign with campaign offer using mix 44.

Member Campaigns

Counter for all members in the Member Campaigns (RTL-2899)

All members counter correctly shows count of all members in given loyalty.

MemberImport

BackOfficeImport (RTL-2926)

Fixes issue with occasional problem with deleting member from Chain Web when synchronizing member data from MemberService.

Required configuration: BackOfficeImport Integration Package 1.1.2.

Member segments

Fix filter Member-Association-Blank

We have removed the 'isBlank' operator for segmentation filter for configuration Members - Association is no longer possible.


Loyalty v. 2.10.93

Document status:

Date: 03 Nov 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Modules

Description

Stamp card

Validate Loyalty Program when Fetching Stamp cards (RTL-2767)

Stamp cards are displayed correctly in POS. That means that stamp cards returned to POS are always validated based on loyalty program of store, so there is no possibility to display them among those members that do not belong to loyalty program or store outside of campaign.


Loyalty v. 2.10.91

Document status:

Date: 22 Oct 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Modules

Description

Member segments

Fix filter Member-Association-Blank

We have removed the 'isBlank' operator for segmentation filter for configuration Members - Association is no longer possible.


Loyalty v. 2.10.90

Document status:

Date: 13 Oct 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Add Support for no-validation of Distribution Channel

(RTL-277)

Deliver non-marketing emails using APSIS is now possible. That means, campaign distribution allows skipping email subscription validation which results in sending email distribution using APSIS without validating member subscription/terms.

ResponseImport should batch fetching of responses from MDS

(RTL-1082)

SMS messages are sent through Message Distribution Service, now. Delivery reports are stored in cloud database in [Lindbak MessageDistributionService].[dbo].[TextDelivery]. ResponseImport job is responsible for importing these reports to
[Lindbak POS Reporting Staging].[dbo].[FactMemberMarketing_Staging] where statuses of messages are clearly stated.

Required Configuration:

LinkMobilityDistribution LIP package 1.8.9
Can be found at:
\\Sp-egdev0319.egdev.lan\Distribution\Lindbak Integrations\3.0\Link Mobility distribution\For Chain Web 2.10.90

Improvements

Modules

Description

Campaign Offer

Define Offer Period is not Visible in Offer Details (RTL-2626)

Offer Period dates are now visible in offer details view when Define Offer Period option is selected in offer details.

Change of offer period should default to Date time correctly (RTL-2634)

Change of from date that it is after to date default to date time to 23:59:59.
Change of to date that it is before from date default from date time to 00:00:00.

Members

Member improvements (RTL-251)

Synchronization time for 1 000 000 members to Retail database from Loyalty database has been significantly reduced.

Member campaign

Swedish translations for mix types (RTL-1924)

Swedish descriptions for mix types 27, 25 and 1003 mixtypes is added.

Retry executing segmentation in campaigns (RTL-2393)

In case of segmentation execution failure (Segmentation API), the automated campaign job will retry execution after 4, 16 and 64 seconds. This retry will improve the general stability of processing member campaigns.

Performance improvements (RTL-2593)

Loading campaign details/campaign offer/member details take less than 5 sec for long running campaigns with large number of distributions.

Price Rules

Missing Descriptions and Their Translations in Some Exiting Mixtypes (RTL-2543)

Descriptions (and their NO and SE translations) were added to 1002, 26, 27, 25 and 1003 Mixtypes.


Loyalty v. 2.10.86

Document status:

Date: 29 Oct 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Modules

Description

Campaign offer

Mix 44 is not validated correctly

It is now possible to active standard member campaign with campaign offer using mix 44.


Loyalty v. 2.10.85

Document status:

Date: 06 Oct 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Modules

Description

Campaign offer

Define Offer Period is not Visible in Offer Details (RTL-2626)

Offer Period dates are now visible in offer details view when "Define Offer Period" option is selected in offer details.

Change of offer period should default to Date time correctly (RTL-2634)

Change of from date that it is after to date default to date time to 23:59:59.
Change of to date that it is before from date default from date time to 00:00:00


Loyalty v. 2.10.83

Document status:

Date: 24 Sep 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Modules

Description

Price rules

Missing description and translations in mix types (RTL-2543)

Missing descriptions and translations for mix type 1002, 26, 27, and 1003 is added.


Loyalty v. 2.10.82

Document status:

Date: 17 Sep 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Modules

Description

Member campaign

Swedish translations for mix types (RTL-1924)

Swedish descriptions for mix types 27, 25 and 1003 mix types is added.


Loyalty v. 2.10.80

Document status:

Date: 03 Sep 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Add Button for Calculating Member Segment Reach

(RTL-2191)

The performance of calculating segments has been improved.

Now user is able to decide whether to calculate the reach of particular segment automatically, after every performed change or have it done after completing segment requirements and clicking at 'Recalculate' button.

It is possible thanks to the new system parameter 'AutomaticallyRefreshSegmentation' that by default is set to True and disables 'Recalculate' button.

Required configuration:

AutomaticallyRefreshSegmentation system parameter that is set to True by default.

  • True - 'Recalculate' button is not visible and calculating the reach of particular segment is happening automatically after every performed change.

  • False - 'Recalculate' button is visible and calculating the reach of particular segment is happening after completing segment requirements and clicking at 'Recalculate' button

Validate email export to APSIS

(RTL-281)

Emails exported to APSIS are validated beforehand in APSIS integration package. APSIS email provider is not triggered for invalid address email.

Apsis Integration LIP package 1.8.6

Support Multiple Loyalty Programs for Member Reports

(RTL-165)

It is possible to sent End-Membership Member Reports using different 'FromEmail' adresses configured for specific loyalty programs.
That means, when member ends membership the confirmation message is being send using email address configured in particular loyalty program user interface.

Required configuration:

EmailFromAddress system parameter that has provided specific value which is applied to each loyalty program and can by modified in loyalty program user interface.

Improvements

Modules

Description

Campaign

ChainWeb: Trigger member based on event - user interface bug (RTL-2056)

Split Criteria Description for Member Actions-> Other Actions in Event-driven campaign is visible only after confirming selected option.

Fixed date format (RTC-9147)

Added hidden parameter pLimit for limit of parameters displayed. Default 20.

Selected strores numbers displayed up to limit set in parameter pLimit, then added '...'.

Add price rule to mix type 44 to member campaigns

User can create discount on items without other mix discount 'Mix no.44' in price rules section. It is possible to set percentage value of discount and create coupons that provide this discount in the specified campaign.


Loyalty v. 2.10.72

Document status:

Date: 29 Dec 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Module

Description

Mailchimp

Mailchimp campaigns are not visible in template list (RTL-2960)

All Mailchimp campaigns as templates are visible and selectable in member campaign in templates list.


Loyalty v 2.10.70

Support for Click & Collect orders in Bonus Campaigns

(RTL-1875)

It is possible to use a coupon from a bonus campaign for Click & Collect orders and Web orders that are reserved before they are paid. Example: When a bonus campaign is active during a weekend, e.g. all members get 30% bonus on all purchases. If a customer reserves an order during this time period and pay for the order after the bonus campaign is over and the order is picked up in store, the member will receive the 30% bonus reward (even though the campaign has ended - because the order was reserved during the campaign period).

"Activating" member campaign not possible to stop

(RTL-2009)

It is possible to stop standard campaign when campaign has "Activating" status by using Stop Campaign button.

That means after stopping standard member campaign that has "Activating" status and activation is not ongoing such campaign is being transitioned into "Draft" status and possible to activate once again. However when standard member campaign that has activating status is being stopped at the time of its exact activation such campaign is being transitioned into "Cancelled" status and not possible to activate once again.

Process Target Group Before Email Sendout

(RTL-1967)

In order to send out email campaigns to members closer to the schedule time, the segment begins processing in MailChimp upon activation of the member campaign.

Technical details

When creating StandardCampaign and planning its distribution to be sent at an exact time in the future CampaignDistributionJob triggers the new method in CampaignDistributionCommands - PrepareDistributionChannel for any distribution from active standard campaign that is valid (has a segment and is in status = Ready. And current time is before SentAt time of distribution). The SegmentExportJob in MailChimpIntegration handles PrepareDistributionChannel event, exports segment from distribution but do not send it yet. When the time of actual distribution has come CampiagnDistributionJob finds and informs about the member segment that is ready for dstribution. After that SegmentExportJob starts to send the distribution.

The new column 'PreparedTimeStamp' was correctly added to Campaign.DistributionChannel table.

All translations for the new statuses will be provided in English, Norwegian and Swedish

Required Information:

1. MaliChimp Integration

2. SegmentExportJob needs to have "bodySerializationFormat": Json


Improvements

Modules

Description

Custom Member Event

Handle race issue (RTL-2225)

MemberCustomEventHandler job now is trying to lookup for the member in the Retail database 5 times every one minute and if member is not found in the Retail database, then the corresponding message is returned in LIP logs.

MailChimp Integration

Improve SegmentExport Performance (RTL-1960)

The performance of SegmentExportJob that exports Member Segments to MailChimp was improved. Now It takes around 30 minutes for SegmentExportJob to export to Mailchimp a Member Segment that contains around 200 000 members.

Requirement:

MailChimp Integration 2.5.7

Member Campaigns

Improve user friendliness (RTL-164)

Selecting "Has accepted member terms" radio button in the Split Criteria is now possible when the "Member that have not accepted member terms" for "All member that match criteria" or "Members who have not accepted member terms and were created more than X days ago" option is selected in First Criteria of Customer Journey.

"Activating" member campaign not possible to stop (RTL-2009)

It is possible to stop standard campaign when campaign has "Activating" status by using Stop Campaign button.

This means after stopping standard member campaign that has "Activating" status and activation is not ongoing such campaign is being transitioned into "Draft" status and possible to activate once again. However when standard member campaign that has activating status is being stopped at the time of its exact activation such campaign is being transitioned into "Cancelled" status and not possible to activate once again.

Member Info Service

IdentityIdentifierUpdated triggered when no change (RTL-2178)

MemberInfoService integration does not trigger IdentityIdentifierUpdated event from MemberServiceEventHandler job if only letter capitalization has been changed in email address (for example abc@domain.com changed to ABC@DOMAIN.com)

New Member

Skip matching empty associations (RTL-2233)

When a new member was created, the synchronization from Loyalty to Retail Database was failing. This have been corrected

Required configuration:

BackOfficeImport Integration 1.0.6

Shift Balance

Expected values on tenders while doing edit balance operation (RTC-14602)

The proper expected values for tenders are displayed while editing shift balance or new cashier balance registration.
One label "Counted" has been renamed to "To bank" in shift balance creation process in register bag step for a better user experience.


Loyalty v. 2.10.50

Document status:

Date: 31 May 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Modules

Description

MailChimp Integration

Do not Allow Setting 'Archived' Member to 'Subscribed' (RTL-1933)

A change in the MailChimp API caused it to allow "archived" members to become "subscribed" again. This change caused deleted members to become subscribed again in instances where MailChimp spent a long time to process the members. This has been corrected so that when member data are synced to MailChimp, the member status is not changed and remains the same if it was set to "archived".

Requirement:
MailChimp Integration 2.5.6.

Member Management

Filtering in Member Activities (RTL-1624)

When using column filters, newsletter activities were always visible regardless of the filter. This has been corrected and filtering works as it should in member activities.


Loyalty v. 2.10.40

Document status:

Date: 26 May 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Timeframe in Member Campaigns

(RTL-1506)

Start / end times field have been added to the campaign wizard for all member campaigns. It is possible to define not only the start and end dates, but also it is possible now to determine exact start and end times.

User can use the times from the list or type individual time (format HH:MM is acceptable only).

The start and end times have been added to the campaign offers as well. The built-in logic validate the correct set times (for example if campaign is one day only, then start time should be lower than the end time).

When user set the campaign + campaign offer start / end datetimes and then the user changed the campaign start/end datetimes, the campaign offer period will be restarted to 'Same as the campaign period'.

The coupons which comes from the campaign offers will have also the valid times, the same like set in the campaign offers.

Improvements

Modules

Description

Member Management

Error when calling MemberService (RTL-1919)

An error which was introduced in 2.10.30 caused member updates done from MyPage and Chain Web to not be updated properly in MemberService. This is corrected.

Mapping of postal address (RTL-1901)

An error with mapping postal address in the database caused member updates to fail. This is corrected and the MemberExport job is correctly exporting members with Postal address confirmed.

Requirement:

LoyaltyDbIntegration 1.2.8.


Loyalty v. 2.10.31

Document status:

Date: 28 Apr 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

New mix: Discount on the most expensive ordinary priced item

(RTL-1620)

The mixtype 'Discount on most expensive item' has been implemented. In the price rules section in Chain web, it is possible to create a price rule based on this mix. Then it is possible to create coupons that provide discount on the most expensive ordinary priced item in the receipt. This price rules will only trigger for items that has no discounts and will not compete with other discounts.

Member Events

(RTL-1811)

It is possible for 3rd party to create, view and trigger member events from MemberService API, which in turn can be used in event driven campaigns to give member rewards for activities in third party applications, such as webshop and apps.

  • Member event is created. Example: “App downloaded”.

  • Event driven campaign is created where initial criteria is set to “App downloaded” event, so that 3rd party can trigger the “app downloaded” event on the member to include them in the campaign.

The same option will be available as a split criteria in event driven campaigns. This functionality will allow retail chains to utilize data from 3rd party to reward and communicate with their members.

This functionality is not available by default and access to this functionality requires a license.

Required Configuration:

  • LoyaltyCampaign 2.5.0

    • MemberCustomEventHandler job is configured with servicebus topic that matches MemberService configuration below

  • MemberService is configured (see documentation attached)

Component Requirements:

  • Integration Platform 3.0.5

  • Bridge 3.10.4

Improvements

Modules

Description

Link Mobility

ResponseImport should only import response from member campaigns (RTL-1045)

ResponseImport saves only responses that are related to member campaigns in [dbo].[FactMemberMarketing_Staging]. This is done to make sure the data displayed for SMS in member campaigns are correct and is not influenced by SMS received by for instance, a gift card.

Requirement:

LinkMobilityDistribution package v.1.8.8.

MailChimp Integration

Improved error logging in MailChimp (RTL-1423)

SyncSubscriptionsToMailChimpJob will get status Failed when something fails during job's execution. Previously, the job would in some cases show as "completed", even if it had failed. This made it difficult for support to find out what has happened if some issues arose regarding synchronizing members to MailChimp.

Requirement:

**MailChimp package v.2.5.5.

MemberManagement

Error when calling MemberService (RTL-1919)

An error which was introduced in 2.10.30 caused member updates done from MyPage and Chain Web to not be updated properly in MemberService. This is corrected.


Loyalty v. 2.10.20

Document status:

Date: 12 Mar 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Add support for SocialSecurityNumberAsText

(RTL-1577, RTC-10816)

SocialSecturityNumberAsText is added to customer updates and the employeeMerger job has been extended to support SocialSecurityNumberAsText while processing CustomerUpdatedEvent. When SocialSecurityNumberAsText does not exist in Lindbak Loyalty database, then a new member with customer data is created. When SocialSecurityNumberAsText is assigned already to member, then customer is linked to the member. This solved a problem with importing customers from 3rd party systems with SSN.

Requirements:

LoyaltyDBIntegration version 1.2.7.0.

BackofficeBatchGenerator 1.5.1

MemberService 3.10.3.


Loyalty v. 2.10.10

Document status:

Date: 18 Feb 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvements

Modules

Description

MailChimp Integration

Email validation in Export of Segment (RTL-1436)

The job that exports segment to MailChimp has been improved. Email validation has been improved to omit the members with emails which consists of '..' -
two dots or '.@' - dot before the sign. Previously, when such invalid emails were sent to MailChimp, MailChimp refused to accept the segment and no members were exported.

Required configuration:

Upgrade MailChimpIntegration to 2.5.3.

Compatible with Chain Web 2.9.280 and above.

Member Management

Implement: Enable change tracking automatically when job runs (RTL-39)

Change tracking is added automatically in MemberExport job execution. This is done to minimize manual configuration mistakes when setting up new member update flow in customer environments.

Required version of: LoyaltyDbIntegration 1.2.3

Member Management

Subscriptions are automatically ticked (RTL-1047)

When editing or adding an email address, mobile number or postal address on a member, the corresponding subscription was ticked automatically in the user interface. This could
cause members to get distributions, even though they had not agreed to it. This is corrected. It can easily be avoided if it is noticed by the user and unchecked manually.


Loyalty v. 2.10.02

Document status:

Date: 21 Jan 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Modules

Description

MemberManagement

Subscriptions are automatically ticked (RTL-1047)

When editing or adding an email address, mobile number or postal address on a member, the corresponding subscription was ticked automatically in the user interface. This could cause members to get distributions, even though they had not agreed to it. This is corrected. It can easily be avoided if it is noticed by the user and unchecked manually.


Loyalty v. 2.10.01

Document status:

Date: 22 Dec 2020

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes

Improvement

Modules

Description

Member Campaigns

Secondary channel type disappears (TFS: 187406)

Secondary channel disappeared when opening the details of an event driven campaign. This no longer occurs.


Loyalty v. 2.10.0

Document status:

Date: 21 Dec 2020

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes

Improvements

Modules

Description

Member Campaigns

Potential reach for distributions (TFS: 179603)

Reach and warning messages are calculated properly while defining, saving or editing certain distribution channel in the distribution step of Member Campaign. Previously, the calculation showed wrong number of potential recipients of a distribution in rare scenarios.

Offers that are used should not be shown as active offers on member (TFS: 189182)

The coupon grid in the campaign offer menu includes a column called "used". This column will allow the user to see which of the coupons have been used or not.

Invalid coupons fetched by POS (TFS: 190092)

An issue which caused coupons that had either expired or been used to be fetched by POS has been corrected. This caused a significant amount of requests to be made and impacted the performance in POS.


Loyalty v. 2.9.287

Document status:

Date: 19 Jan 2021

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes.

Improvement

Modules

Description

MemberManagement

Subscriptions are automatically ticked (RTL-1047)

When editing or adding an email address, mobile number or postal address on a member, the corresponding subscription was ticked automatically in the user interface. This could cause members to get distributions, even though they had not agreed to it. This is corrected. It can easily be avoided if it is noticed by the user and unchecked manually.


Loyalty v. 2.9.286

Document status:

Date: 18 Dec 2020

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes

Improvement

Modules

Description

Member Campaigns

Secondary channel type disappears (TFS: 187406)

Secondary channel disappeared when opening the details of an event driven campaign. This no longer occurs.


Loyalty v. 2.9.285

Document status:

Date: 04 Dec 2020

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes

Improvement

Modules

Description

Member Campaigns

Offers that are used should not be shown as active offers on member (TFS: 189182)

The coupon grid in the campaign offer menu includes a column called "used". This column will allow the user to see which of the coupons have been used or not.


Loyalty v. 2.9.284

Document status:

Date: 01 Dec 2020

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes

Improvement

Modules

Description

Member campaign

Invalid coupons fetched by POS (TFS: 190092)

An issue which caused coupons that had either expired or been used to be fetched by POS has been corrected. This caused a significant amount of requests to be made and impacted the performance in POS.


Loyalty v. 2.9.280

Document status:

Date: 23 Oct 2020

Prerequisites are found under Chain Web Release Notes

Loyalty Campaign Mailchimp

(TFS: 181547)

When creating an email distribution from member campaigns using MailChimp it is possible to set an email subject and a preview text with emojiis. The preview text will be exported to Mailchimp (by SegmentExportJob). A preview text is displayed underneath the sender name and subject line in a subscriber's inbox.

Required configuration

If email template is not created properly, the Preview Text will not be shown.

The following code should be added to the email template in MailChimp:

<!--*|IF:MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*-->
<!--[if !gte mso 9]><!----><span class="mcnPreviewText" style="display:none;font-size:0px;line-height:0px;max-height:0px;max-width:0px;opacity:0;overflow:hidden;visibility:hidden;mso-hide:all;">*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*</span><!--<![endif]-->
<!--*|END:IF|*-->

Requirement:

LoyaltyCampaign 2.4.0.
MailChimpIntegration 2.5.0.

Report for free items

(TFS: 188574)

In report for free stamp card items (0152_FreeItemsFromStampCard) a new column: "Ordernumber" has been added, which shows supplier order number from article.

We have also added filter for store, EAN and order number.

Because of restrictions in Chain Web report viewer, we show max 20 store numbers in parameter list. If there are more stores selected, store list ends with ',...'

Max number can be changed in hidden parameter pParameterDisplayLimit

Requirements:

Lindbak POS Reporting v. 64.

Checkbox for excluding stamp card sales from discount rule

(TFS: 185309)

New checkbox in "General Bonus rules" which states whether or not purchases that generate stamp should generate bonus points, was implemented.. Now user has the possibility to decide whether or not sales that generate a stamp is considered as a discount as apart of the bonus rules. Therefore, if the 'Item discount rule' is enabled in 'General Bonus Rules' the user can decide with the help of 'Include stamp card transaction' checkbox whether or not bonus is generated on the stamp card.

Discount on the most expensive item

(TFS: 181550)

New price rule: is added. Mix 25: "% discount on the most expensive item" can be used to create an offer for members which provides a percentage discount on the most expensive item on the receipt.

Improvements

Modules

Description

Member Campaigns

Improvements to mix 25 and 27 (TFS: 185264)

The Red stars, which indicates mandatory field, is removed when creating price rule from mix 25. There are no mandatory fields for this price rule, as it can be defined in a campaign. Some additional improvements were made in CampaignService to ensure POS receives the necessary mix information.

Member segmentation

Performance improvement (TFS: 184660)

The export of segments to MailChimp has been refactored. It is possible to export significantly more members faster than before. The export previously struggled around 60k members, this is no longer an issue. The export is able to handle more than 1 million members.

Note: Performance may vary based on server capacity and performance at the time of export.

Required configuration:

Upgrade MailChimpIntegration 2.5.0. The package can be found at:

\\nas_install\LRS\Lindbak Integrations\3.0\MailChimp Integration\For Chain Web 2.9.280

Member Tag

Hide 'MostUsedStore' Tags (TFS: 186493)

The 'MostUSedStore' tag category is hidden from Members Tags grid in Chain Web .


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