All membership cards will be displayed under the “Membership Cards” tab on the home page of the CircumPay APP.

1: What is a membership card?

 

A membership card is a virtual card issued by Operators (Machine Owners). It can only used on the issuer’s machine. This feature is designed to replace existing RFID close-loop cards.

 

There are two types of Membership cards in CircumPay.

  • Normal Card: Customer needs to top it up manually
  • Recurring Card: This can be auto top up periodically, for example, every week.

 

2: Why Use a Membership card?

 

With a membership card, an operator can get the following benefits:

  • No service fee for each vends done by membership card
  • Get paid in advance, the operator gets the money when the user purchases a membership card, which means get paid before the customer uses the service.
  • Promo your service to the customer
  • Increase loyalty
  • etc

 

3: How to Enable Membership card

 

Operators who want to sell membership cards in CircumPay must first enable it in their Circumvend management account.

 

4: Operator Backend setup

 

A:  Create a virtual Category.

  1. Login to Circumtec backend website circumvend.com.au/vmms/
  2. Go to Inventory->Category menu.
  3. Click the Create button to create a new category,
  4. In the "Category" window, give a name, for example, “Loyalty Card”, and tick “Virtual Category”
  5. Save

**For the recurring card, just click Params, then tick “Enable Recurving” and choose the recurring period, for example, Weekly.

B:  Create a virtual Product.

  1. Click the Inventory-Product menu.
  2. Click the Create button to create a new product
  3. In the new product edit window, provide the following info:
    • Product Name:  Membership card
    • Category: Select the one just created (Loyalty Card)

 4. Click Save.

Repeat the above procedure to create more virtual products.

C:  Create a Virtual Machine.

Now create a virtual machine to sell the newly created virtual product:

  1. Click System->Machine menu.
  2. Click the Create button to create a new machine
  3. In the "Machine Create" window
  4. Machine Model: “Virtual Machine”
  5. Serial No:   Enter any number you like, for example: 12345
  6. Click Save

**The virtual machine will be assigned a virtual DTU automatically, the IMEI start with VC, remember it for later use.

D:  Add virtual products to the virtual machine.

  1. Under the System->Machine menu, you can see a newly created virtual machine. Click the machine ID to edit the planogram
  2. Click the Create button to add a new coil (item) to the machine, in the coil update window, add:
    1. Coil No:  Just start with 1
    2. Product:  Select the virtual product “Membership card”
    3. Price:   The price you want to sell this membership card, for example, 10 means $10
    4. Credit: This is the credit the card can be used, for example, $15
  3. Click OK to save it

NOTES:

1: You can add more than one coil to the virtual machine

2: Credit and Price can be the same or different.

5: How to buy a membership card

After the operator set up the virtual product at the backend, now the membership cards are ready for sale. But how to let CircumPay users know you have a membership card on sale?

There are two ways to do it.

A:  Buy membership card when checkout

  1. When a user scans a machine QR code, for example, this one at right.
  2. At the checkout page, if the user doesn’t have a membership card and the machine’s owner has a membership card setup. A window will pop up to ask the user to “Buy a Membership card and Save”
  3. If the user presses OK, will go to the membership card sales page
  4. Then the user can click a membership card to open it
  5. Click Buy now to buy it
  6. When the purchase is finished, will go back to the checkout page,  and a new membership card will be ready to use.

 

B:  Promote your membership card

 

  1. Get the QR code of the virtual machine created in 5 c.  Go to System->Machine menu, then click More->Export QR code
  2. In the PDF file, you can see the QR code of all the machines, find the one IMEI starting with VC, this is the QR for the virtual machine
  3. Then use that QR code to Make a flyer or signboard and put it in the entry area where can easily attract people’s attention.
  4. When the user scans the QR code with CircumPay, he can see all the available virtual cards.
  5. Then user can click a membership card to open it
  6. Click Buy now to buy it

NOTE: Do NOT put the QR of the virtual machine next to a real machine QR code