Overview
An industry-leading Loyalty Platform sought to boost revenue and customer retention for merchants in the restaurant and retail categories. To acquire the merchants, the most effective strategy for the Loyalty Platform was to build integrations with all the relevant POS systems as fast as possible, while ensuring a smooth experience for the end customers during a transaction.
The Challenge
Even though the Loyalty Platform had built a few integrations in-house, they needed to move fast to get the key POS integrations done but didn’t have the in-house expertise and bandwidth. Also, to speed up merchant acquisition, it was critical for the Loyalty Platform to get listed with the leading POS marketplaces. LINK was well positioned to take on both the challenges. The Loyalty Platform partnered with LINK for POS expertise, speed, cost efficiency, and long-term maintenance and scaling. Partnering with LINK also freed up their in-house engineering bandwidth to focus on the core loyalty products.
The Solution
LINK integrated the Loyalty Platform with two POS systems: Clover and PAR Brink. For every transaction, the relevant customer and sale information is sent to the Loyalty Platform, which then computes/updates the loyalty points. The integration further allows the Loyalty Platform to show the offers for redemption on the POS system’s cashier screen via a pop-up. Once an offer is redeemed, the information is synced back with the Loyalty Platform. Since the communication between the POS and Loyalty Platform is happening in the middle of a sale transaction, each request/response happens in under two seconds. Additionally, LINK is using its expertise and POS partnerships to drive marketplace listings for the Loyalty Platform.
The Result
The Loyalty Platform was immediately able to offer the integrated well-rounded product to activate 180+ merchant locations and build an ongoing pipeline. With the POS integrations in place, the Loyalty Platform plans to run joint campaigns with other industry players that cater to restaurants and retailers, to further expand their footprint. LINK is also expanding its partnership with the Loyalty Platform to integrate additional POS systems as well as systems in categories such as e-commerce, CDP, CRM, and accounting.
