Epsilon Debuts Enterprise Loyalty Platform for QSR and Fast Casual Restaurants
Epsilon announced a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) loyalty solution to help quick serve and fast casual restaurants (QSRs) connect and drive deeper relationships with digital-savvy consumers. Epsilon’s enterprise loyalty platform, Agility Loyalty, is now available as a secure, scalable, cloud-based solution to serve QSR brands and their franchisees. The offering includes rich insights into consumer behavior and supports personalized multichannel communications, a variety of reward schemes and targeted digital media campaigns to help QSR brands acquire new customers, increase customer engagement, drive repeat visits and engender loyalty.
Changes in customer preferences and shifts in consumer technology are reshaping how brands connect with consumers. QSR marketers require mobile-first, easy-to-implement marketing solutions that enable them to reach their customers and connect with them in an always-aware, authentic manner. By combining Epsilon’s deep loyalty expertise and rich customer insights with an on-demand technology architecture, Agility Loyalty helps QSR marketers drive growth by creating a compelling digital customer experience, the company said.
Agility Loyalty QSR includes a pre-configured mobile customer app and provides for seamless integration with existing marketing and point-of-sale systems through a robust set of APIs. It also offers a simplified administration console for the marketing team and flexible program capabilities that let marketers cater to individual customer preferences and needs. In addition, the solution leverages Epsilon’s unmatched consumer insights to help brands deliver individually-tailored communications across email, mobile push and SMS through Agility Harmony, Epsilon’s digital messaging platform.
Other features of Agility Loyalty QSR include:
A mobile app: The pre-configured mobile app includes rich out-of-the box functionality such as program enrollment via social login and mobile wallet integration, as well as key features such as finding the nearest store location, real-time points and rewards, menu and redemption catalog browsing and location-based offers.
Simplified points and promotion: The QSR solution makes it easy to implement a tailored program for earning and redemption, automates cross-channel promotions and enables members to gift points to others. It also offers a number of options to facilitate participation and repeat purchases.
Personalized interactions at scale: Agility Loyalty empowers QSR marketers to engage their diners with personalized communications across channels and devices, including real-time rewards specific to location, purchase behavior, app activity and lifestyle. Pre-built campaign templates allow marketers to easily deliver communications tied to relevant activities and events through Agility Harmony, or via their current email solution.
More than just software: Agility Loyalty QSR is supported by an array of robust services including program configuration, analytics, campaign execution and ongoing support. Brands can choose their desired service model, ranging from a fully managed solution to self-service, with the option to engage Epsilon’s loyalty experts, creative teams, data scientists and digital advertising specialists as needed.
Epsilon has been a recognized industry leader and innovator in loyalty marketing for decades, having helped launch in 1982 Pan Am WorldPass, the world’s first global frequent traveler program and one of the market’s earliest loyalty programs. Named a leader by Forrester Research, Inc. in the January 2016 report “The Forrester Wave™: Customer Loyalty Solutions For Large Organizations, Q1 2016,” today Agility Loyalty’s enterprise platform manages 550 million loyalty memberships worldwide.
Changes in customer preferences and shifts in consumer technology are reshaping how brands connect with consumers. QSR marketers require mobile-first, easy-to-implement marketing solutions that enable them to reach their customers and connect with them in an always-aware, authentic manner. By combining Epsilon’s deep loyalty expertise and rich customer insights with an on-demand technology architecture, Agility Loyalty helps QSR marketers drive growth by creating a compelling digital customer experience, the company said.
Agility Loyalty QSR includes a pre-configured mobile customer app and provides for seamless integration with existing marketing and point-of-sale systems through a robust set of APIs. It also offers a simplified administration console for the marketing team and flexible program capabilities that let marketers cater to individual customer preferences and needs. In addition, the solution leverages Epsilon’s unmatched consumer insights to help brands deliver individually-tailored communications across email, mobile push and SMS through Agility Harmony, Epsilon’s digital messaging platform.
Other features of Agility Loyalty QSR include:
A mobile app: The pre-configured mobile app includes rich out-of-the box functionality such as program enrollment via social login and mobile wallet integration, as well as key features such as finding the nearest store location, real-time points and rewards, menu and redemption catalog browsing and location-based offers.
Simplified points and promotion: The QSR solution makes it easy to implement a tailored program for earning and redemption, automates cross-channel promotions and enables members to gift points to others. It also offers a number of options to facilitate participation and repeat purchases.
Personalized interactions at scale: Agility Loyalty empowers QSR marketers to engage their diners with personalized communications across channels and devices, including real-time rewards specific to location, purchase behavior, app activity and lifestyle. Pre-built campaign templates allow marketers to easily deliver communications tied to relevant activities and events through Agility Harmony, or via their current email solution.
More than just software: Agility Loyalty QSR is supported by an array of robust services including program configuration, analytics, campaign execution and ongoing support. Brands can choose their desired service model, ranging from a fully managed solution to self-service, with the option to engage Epsilon’s loyalty experts, creative teams, data scientists and digital advertising specialists as needed.
Epsilon has been a recognized industry leader and innovator in loyalty marketing for decades, having helped launch in 1982 Pan Am WorldPass, the world’s first global frequent traveler program and one of the market’s earliest loyalty programs. Named a leader by Forrester Research, Inc. in the January 2016 report “The Forrester Wave™: Customer Loyalty Solutions For Large Organizations, Q1 2016,” today Agility Loyalty’s enterprise platform manages 550 million loyalty memberships worldwide.