Setting up a payment type for Loyalty points with revenue offset

In many territories, circuits aren't required to pay tax or film hire on purchases paid with Loyalty points. If you're in one of these territories, and you want to set this up, you'll need to set up a revenue offset on your loyalty payment type.

Before you begin

Ensure you've set up the Promo-Payment Engine.

Steps

1. In Head Office or Cinema Manager, go to Maintenance > Payment types.
2. Open the payment type for your Loyalty payments, or create one.
3. Under General > Tender category select Loyalty Card.
4. Select Matched, Exact Amount or Matched, Variable Amount as the refund method.

   Warning! You can select Unmatched as the refund method, but we don't recommend it. Selecting Unmatched with a revenue offset increases your risk of fraudulent transactions.

5. Under Promo-Payment Engine, select Enable revenue offset (%).
6. Enter 100 as the Default revenue offset (%).

   Note: You can enter a lower default revenue offset, but 100% is the most common for this tender category. This reflects the fact that customers don't pay for Loyalty points — they simply earn them as they make other purchases.

7. In Reporting on this payment type, select how the payment type will be recorded.

   Note: If you're using Cinema Manager, select Items and tickets will be reported as a single item or Item and tickets will be reported separately first.

8. In Report ticket revenue offset as, select how the revenue offset will be recorded.

   Tip: Reporting on this payment type and Report ticket revenue offset as can be the same item.

9. Enter the rest of the payment type's details as required.
10. Save.