Credits are awesome! Have you ever wanted a way to track the provision of your in-person services that someone purchased through Simplero? Well, you can! Maybe you are a coach who sells sessions using Simplero - you can use Credits in Simplero to keep track of when those services were delivered. Here's how...
The credits functionality is disabled by default but don't worry, it is very easy to enable!
Go to your Account>>Settings>>Simplero Labs and click Enable --> Done!
Before you can sell it (or even create a product for it), you need to define it.
To do this you would do the following:
Select Settings from your Simplero Dashboard
Select the Credits type
Click the + Add a credit button in the top right corner
Complete the fields for your new Credit
Name for your Credit
Name plural
Expiration - set the time period in which they expire (if they do). You will be able to override the expiration period when you sell the Credit via a Product.
Click the Create credit button to save
Now you can sell that Credit! To do this, create a Product the way you usually do but choose from the dropdown the Credit type you’d like the Product to be. See this guide for help if you haven't created a Product before.
Select your Credit type and tell the system when the credits expire when used in this product (if they do)
Leave the quantity set to 'Let Customers Choose' unless there is a minimum number of credits they must purchase to be able to purchase credits.
When you set your price, create a price that is for the minimum number of credits you allow.
If you would like to offer to sell more credits at a discounted price per credit:
Create a second price
Enter the price per credit
Set the minimum number of credits people must buy in order to get that price. On your order form, they will be able to choose how many credits they want and the system will show them the applicable price per credit.
Now go sell your product and provide the services you promised. Then it's time to use the credits...
Once the Credit has been 'used' by the customer, record that in their Contact record.
Select Lists & Contacts from your Simplero Dashboard
Select the Contacts tab
Locate and select your customer name
In the Contact Info screen, scroll down to the Credits section
Click the Consume hyperlink
Write a note about when the Credit was used, and for what in the Consume Credits pop-up screen. You can consume full or partial credits.
Then click the Save changes button
You can also give someone a Credit manually.
Select Lists & Contacts from your Simplero Dashboard
Select the Contacts tab
Locate and select your customer name
In the Contact Info screen, scroll down to the Credits section
Click the Issue credit hyperlink
If you would like to see who has credits that have not yet been consumed...
Select Settings from your Simplero Dashboard
Select the Credits tab
Look at the Outstanding column or click the Outstanding tab (you'll see this tab if you have several credits) to see a list of contacts who have unused credits
Customer can check their credits on their Simplero profile (https://simplero.com/purchases#credit-balances) under the content tab: