Loyalty Engine · Part of the Emplate platform

Everything starts with your customers

Reward the actions your centre needs, when it needs them. Every point, visit and reward feeds Customer Data & CRM, powers Marketing Automation and brings your shops in through Shop Engagement. One platform, built exclusively for shopping centres.

Proven spend impact

Members who spend, in the millions

Emplate supports both set-ups: one loyalty programme shared by several centres, or one programme per centre. Here is what each delivered, measured in the centres' own data.

One programme · five centres
Challenge
A group of five shopping centres had no customer relationship and no customer database.
Solution
One shared loyalty programme for all five centres, where members earn points on their purchases in the shops.
€3.06M

spent by members in 31 days

76,135known customers in three months
69,268purchases in 276 shops
€44average purchase

Known customers, end of each month

12,900
57,124
66,081
76,135
LaunchMonth 2Month 3Month 4
One programme · one centre
Challenge
See where shopper spend and visit frequency come from, shop by shop.
Solution
A purchase-based loyalty programme for the centre alone.
€5.2M

of shopper spend made visible in 20 months

140,000+purchases made visible
+71%purchases, latest month vs a year before
€47.48average spend per member

Purchases per month

3,568
12,373 · 3.5×
First monthMonth 20
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One use case, one platform

How a new food court got its customers

A centre opened a new first floor with a cinema and a small food court, and the footfall counters showed customers weren't finding it. This is how one loyalty action solved it, with the rest of the platform doing its part.

1 · Loyalty Engine

Reward the visit

The centre created one action: 5 loyalty points for visiting the new food court.

2 · Marketing Automation

Say it at the right moment

A location-based message reached members in the centre's app as they arrived at the centre.

3 · Customer Data & CRM

See who actually came

The loyalty data showed which members went up, and it matched what the footfall counters saw.

Next · Shop Engagement

Turn visits into spend

The food court's restaurants can add their own offers and stamp cards to the same members.

Result: 10.2% more traffic in the food court the following month. The message was the only thing the centre did differently, and it took ten minutes to set up.

Drive visits and spend

Bring customers where your centre needs them

Reward the visit, the shop, the event or the purchase you want more of, and change the actions whenever your centre's needs change.

Spend

Spend at the right times

Members earn points on their purchases, and you reward purchases in the hours or areas you choose.

Spend

Shop-funded boosts

Shops offer double points for a period to bring in traffic and bigger baskets, without the centre paying for it.

Works with

Shop Engagement

Spend

Tiers that reward spend

Members reach higher tiers as they spend more in your centre, and each tier unlocks better benefits that keep them coming back.

Visits

Quiet areas

Give points for visiting a new wing, floor or food court, and send the offer when members arrive at the centre.

Visits

Events

Give members points, gifts or meet-and-greets at your events, so every event also grows the programme.

A centre in Southern Europe grew strongly after launch, partly because events gave members special benefits.

Visits

The big days

Black Friday, Christmas, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day get their own rewards and competitions.

A Mother's Day competition for members brought 1,642 centre visits at about €0.08 per visit.

Grow and lift members

Win new members and look after your best ones

Make it worthwhile to sign up from day one, let members bring friends and family, and make the visit better the more loyal a customer is.

Members

Welcome rewards

A small reward the moment a member completes their profile: a coffee, a croissant or an ice cream. Offer several, and the rest disappear once one is chosen.

A centre in Scandinavia got 30,000 downloads in its first year, and 86% created a profile.

Members

Referrals

Members invite friends and family, and both get points. When your centre has no database yet, it's the cheapest sign-up you can buy.

Tiers

Tiers and status

Like a frequent flyer programme: the higher the tier, the better the visit. Points work as a status score, and the top tier is earned over time, not in a weekend.

Tier benefits that fit a shopping centre

Free parking that grows with the tier

Free access to paid toilets

Members-only evenings that get better the higher the tier

Early bird shopping on big sale days

Early access to new shop openings

Free gift wrapping at Christmas

Free cloakroom or bag drop

Reserved parking close to the entrance

A surprise on the member's birthday

Keep it engaging

Games that bring members back, and cost less to run

Give members a new reason to open the programme every month, and let them spend points to take part, so your programme gets cheaper to run over time.

Games

Monthly games

Luck games like a wheel of fortune or a scratchcard, and skill games like football or basketball. Shops donate prizes and get visibility back.

A wheel of fortune, played once a day, has been spun 347,947 times in one centre. That's about 200 times a day.

Points

Point burning

Members spend points to enter prize draws and games. You hand out one prize, however many take part.

Members spent more than 52,000 points on one competition. The prize cost the centre about €67.

Rewards

Small beats big

A small, limited reward announced in advance creates more attention than a big prize.

20 Christmas trees worth €9 each made customers wait more than an hour.

Build your reward strategy in many ways

Welcome rewards that come straight away

A rewards catalogue in different sizes

Vouchers & coupons

Cashback & gift cards

Digital stamp cards across your cafés

Shop-sponsored rewards with the shop's logo

Partner rewards: cinema, amusement park, local football club

Service rewards: free parking and mobile parking

Seasonal prize draws with realistic prizes

Target-group rewards, like goodie bags for new students

Surprise & delight on a member's birthday

Members-only events

Smart services · Integrations in place

Smart services, built on integrations that are already in place

Connect the services customers already use in your centre, from parking to cinema. Each one runs on an integration we already have in place, and makes the programme more useful between visits and during them.

Parking

Ticketless parking, and parking benefits for your most loyal members.

Map & wayfinding

Help customers find shops, offers and services in the centre.

Digital gift cards

The centre’s gift card in the programme, ready for the phone’s wallet.

Cinema

Show what’s on and bring customers to the cinema in the centre.

Physical machines

Connect screens and prize machines in the centre, like a daily wheel of fortune.

… and more

Many more services can be integrated into your programme.

Find the use cases that fit your shopping centre