Release Notes
Release Date: April 2016

Release Notes: Spring '16

Release highlights in this article

Messaging

Survey

In the spirit of facilitating real-time, simple data collection on your loyalty members, Paytronix has created a Survey Center. As of v16.5, Paytronix now offers a one-to-one survey platform. Surveys can be sent out via real-time messaging channels, meaning that the survey is triggered by an in-store POS transaction. Survey deployment is supported through email, push, and pull messages.

The “Survey Center” is stored under Marketing Tools on the left navigation. In it, you can create your own survey questions and answers. The following question types are supported:

  • Multiple Choice (Single Select) – Guests can select one answer in a list of possible options.
  • Multiple Choice (Multi-Select) – Guests can select all answers that apply via this question type.
  • Open Response – Enable guests to give you feedback in their own words.
  • Rating Scale – from zero or one through ten, guests can rank their experience, the taste of your food, quality of service and more.

Additionally, marketers can reward survey respondents for completing a survey.

Clients with third party mobile applications and websites can integrate to our one-to-one survey feature via our open REST endpoints.

Please reach out to your technology consultant to learn more about enabling the survey feature. Clients must be a messaging customer in order to use this feature.

Mobile App Survey Support
Survey functionality will be supported in Paytronix’s white label mobile applications (both iPhone and Android) by Summer 2016.

Survey Reports
A Survey Response Detail report, chronicling the responses of your guest surveys is coming in Summer 2016.

Campaign Tool Support
Compatibility with the Paytronix Campaign Tool will be released in Summer 2016.

 
Survey
 
 
 

Email Throughput Improvements

Thanks to the success of our messaging product line and expanding subscriber lists of you, our clients, we’ve increased our email throughput by a factor of four. 

 
 
 

Single Sign On Through OLO's Online Ordering System

With single sign on, users will maintain and access a single account for online ordering and optionally a rewards program. This simplifies and elevates the guest experience between two digital touchpoints. All customer profile information including username and password will be stored in the Paytronix database.

With the enhanced integration, marketers can now leverage the single-sign-on guest information to execute on a one-to-one marketing strategy with or without a rewards program. When online orders account for a larger portion of all checks, the passive identification that is common to online ordering flows gives marketers access to rich purchase data that is tied to an individual.

New REST endpoints have been created to accommodate this integration type:

  1. OLO Service
    1. requestGuestToken
    2. requestGuestInfo
  2. Guest Service
    1. printedCardNumberForExternalAccount
 
 
 

Paytronix Improvements

CSR Account Lookup: Account Comments

Want to leave an easy-to-find comment on a customer’s account to inform you about ongoing issues or a VIP member’s preferences? Look no further. Account Comment functionality is now available through the CSR Account Lookup feature on the Merchant Administration portal. Customer service representatives can now leave comments on an individual account that is not tied to a specific transaction.

To create a comment, simply lookup an account holder and click the “Add Comment” link inside the blue box. At any time, CSRs can look at the history of comments associated with this account by clicking “Account Comment History” in the left navigation panel. CSRs cannot delete comments from an account. 

 
 
 

Responsive Guest Website

Email Address as Username

New programs can now allow customers to use their email address as their username, rather than enforcing a separate, non-email based username. For existing clients wishing to implement this feature, members will be able to “migrate” their account from using a username and password credentials to an email address and password.

Clients using third party REST integrations for mobile applications and websites must update their existing integration in order to support this new feature.

Support for Paytronix's white label apps will be added in Summer 2016.

 
 
 

Customer Transaction History 

As of V16.5, points that are automatically converted into rewards are now labeled as “converted” in the customer transaction history. Previously these points would have been displayed in the customer transaction history as “redeemed.”

 
 
 

Point of Sale (POS) Integrations

PixelPoint

In v16.5, Paytronix has enhanced its integration with PixelPoint. The integration feature set now includes the ability to utilize menu item level rewards, category rewards, as well as fixed and open dollar amount rewards for loyalty and comp programs. 

 
 
 

Drop Tank – Gilbarco Passport, NCR Radiant, VeriFone Sapphire, VeriFone Commander

In V16.5, Paytronix has added support for C-Store loyalty programs through its integration with Drop Tank. Using the Drop Tank integration Paytronix clients using Gilbarco Passport, NCR Radiant, VeriFone Sapphire, or VeriFone Commander can take advantage of Paytronix’s loyalty and comp programs.

In addition to standard loyalty functionality, the Drop Tank clients will be able to take advantage of Paytronix’s new “Price Per Gallon” reward discount. This type of reward could be used to give per-gallon discounts off of customer gas purchases. For example, clients could run a “$0.10 off per gallon” promotion.

 
 
 

Other Acknowledgements

1. Third-Party Library Software

  • Apache Software Foundation:  This product (Paytronix) includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/), including: Apache Commons, Apache httpClient, Xerces, log4j, Jakarta Commons, Apache Jakarta-Oro, APR snprintf library, Apache FOP, and Apache Batik.
  • Exolab Project: This product (Paytronix) includes software developed by the Exolab Project (http://www.exolab.org), including: Castor.
  • Sun Microsystems, Inc.: This product (Paytronix) includes software developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.sun.com), including: Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), Java Communications API, and Secure Sockets Extension (JSSE) – which also includes code licensed from RSA Data Security.
  • SourceForge.net: This product (Paytronix) includes software developed by SourceForge.net and distributed under the Common Public License, including WTL and distributed through a ZLib License for tinyxml.
  • Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd, Clark Cooper, and Expat maintainers:  This product (Paytronix) includes software developed by Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd, Clark Cooper, and Expat maintainers including Expat XML Parser Library.
  • Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler: This product (Paytronix) includes software developed by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler including ZLib Compression Library.
  • JCIFS smb client in Java.  This product (Paytronix) uses software developed by Michael B Allen, distributed by GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, including jCIFS SMB client in Java.  Paytronix has made modifications to this software.  Pursuant to the GNU LGPL, we are posting the changes to the code made on our website.  Please see www.paytronix.com/download/jcifs/jcifs.tar.gz
  • Mort Bay Consulting: This product (Paytronix) includes Jetty Web Server developed by Jan Bartel and Greg Wilkins and other contributors.
  • Hypersonic SQL.  This product (Paytronix) includes products developed by Hypersonic SQL.  This software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed.  In no event shall the Hypersonic SQL Group, or contributors be liable for an direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.  This software consists of voluntary contributions made by individuals on behalf of the Hypersonic SQL Group.  Copyright © 1995 – 2000, The Hypersonic SQL Group.  All rights reserved.
  • The HSQL Development Group.  This product (Paytronix) includes products developed by The HSQL Development Group.  This software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed.  In no event shall the HSQL Development Group, HSQLDB.org, or contributors be liable for an direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. 
  • Eclipse SWT.  This product (Paytronix) contains products developed by Eclipse SWT.