Participation in loyalty programs has been steadily increasing in recent years. This trend is driven by a number of factors, including the growing popularity of online shopping and the increasing use of mobile devices. In addition, loyalty programs are becoming more sophisticated, offering personalized rewards and experiences that appeal to consumers. As a result, retailers are finding that loyalty programs are an essential part of their business model. With competition for customer loyalty intensifying, retailers are focused on creating programs that offer value and benefits that appeal to their target audience. In order to be successful, retailers need to ensure that their loyalty program is easy to use and offers rewards that are meaningful to their customers. What factors affect loyalty programs enrollment?
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Data for today’s episode is provided by Mercator Advisory Group’s Report: How Payments Can Drive Better Loyalty and Rewards Programs
Environmental Factors Affecting Loyalty Enrollment and Participation
- Environmental factors are factors that are out of the merchant’s control.
- The consumer is just visiting the area and will not return to shop at the store.
- The consumer’s purchase is perceived as one-time only.
- The consumer moved away from the store’s area.
- The consumer no longer needs the store’s products.
- A physical or dietary need prevents further participation from the consumer.
About Report
Mercator Advisory Group’s most recent report, How Payments Can Drive Better Loyalty and Rewards Programs, provides insight into the new technology driving increased personalization and better customer experiences with loyalty programs, and the important role that payment data can play.
Traditional loyalty programs were a source of data for merchants, better enabling them to identify the repeat customers and track the shopping patterns by rewarding their repeat purchases. The digital environment now gives us an abundance of data that is captured in many ways and in many places, moving these programs to become a use of data that provides a better understanding of customer behavior and the more targeted rewards.
Strategic operating decisions that merchants make in key payments areas including orchestration, tokenization, and service provider selection will affect the ability of the marketing team to mine the loyalty data from payments and has the potential to either enhance or detract from the effectiveness of the loyalty program.
“This is a highly relevant and impactful report,” stated Don Apgar, Director of the Merchant Services and Acquiring practice at Mercator Advisory Group, and author of the report. “We are following this among a number of growing trends that are making payments a frictionless and invisible part of our everyday activities.”
