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Antavo AI Loyalty Cloud

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What is Antavo AI Loyalty Cloud?

Antavo is an Enterprise Loyalty Cloud, providing technology to manage experience-based, paid, and lifestyle loyalty programs online, in-store, or on mobile. Antavo’s no-code, API-centric platform makes the loyalty program experience customizable so loyalty and marketing teams can run their program internally, without IT help. Antavo helps global clients like BMW, KFC or Kathmandu and global businesses in air travel, pharma and fashion.


Antavo differentiators:

  1. Omnichannel solution: Alongside its online eCommerce capabilities, Antavo offers in-store and mobile technologies to bridge the gap between online and offline.
  2. Emotional and lifestyle loyalty capabilities: Helps to encourage valuable behaviors and establish lasting brand love by rewarding customers for living in accordance with their ideals, values, and aspirations.
  3. 10 loyalty program types: A variety of solutions to suit a brand, including tools to impress customers with gamification and experience-based concepts, and engage them outside of the buying cycle.

  4. No-code and API-centric: With its API-centric nature, the loyalty program experience is customizable and easy to integrate. Antavo’s no-code approach reduces reliance on IT teams.

  5. Secure and scalable: Data security is a cornerstone for Antavo, with data protection based on ISO standards and a cloud-based technology that enables full scalability.

Features
  1. PRODUCT

CORE CAPABILITIES:

  • No-Code Loyalty Engine:

    • Points Economy: Points Economy refers to the system in Antavo for managing activities of point mechanics, such as point earning and spend, return/refunds, expirations, and more.

    • Tier Management: Tiers and hidden ranks have a significant impact on loyalty programs. Antavo provides flexible capabilities to manage them.

    • No-Code Workflows: The Workflows tool provides a no-code approach to define, schedule and set up ad-hoc and ongoing loyalty campaigns. Enhance campaign relevance by using sophisticated filters such as customer data.

  • Reward and Offer Management:

    • Set up a list of different types of rewards to offer customers, specify customer segments that rewards are available for, and define any limitation and/or requirements to unlock them.

    • Flexible Coupon Management: Antavo can generate coupon codes directly (just define a pattern), you can upload them manually or get the coupon codes from any 3rd party, via a callback URL endpoint.

    • Types of Rewards:

      • Discounts & Coupons

      • Physical Items

      • Experiences

      • Virtual Badges

      • Content & Sweepstakes

      • Custom rewards (e.g. donations)

      • Special Interest Clubs

  • Omnichannel Gamification Modules:

    • Gamified Profiling: Acquire zero-party data on customers’ preferences through simple, interactive quizzes and reward them for answering. Use the collected data to further personalize the loyalty experience.

    • Friend Referrals: Among social media engagement modules, Antavo offers a friend referral functionality that allows users to invite their friends to join the program either publicly or through personal messaging apps.

    • Instagram Contests: To encourage loyalty members to share UGC on their Instagram accounts with Instagram hashtag contests and prompt them to consume content with comment contests.

    • Gamified Challenges & Badges: To make the loyalty experience more engaging with challenges and badges: encourage customers to either complete a series of actions or repeat an activity periodically. Any trackable action can be part of a challenge, this module motivates day-to-day customer engagement for special rewards.

    • Games: A modern loyalty program should engage customers with captivating touchpoints, so Antavo designed a series of fun games - Online/Offline Treasure Hunts, Prize Wheel - for customers to play online, in-store and on mobile.

    • Daily Life & Brand Engagement: Solutions used to connect with customers during their everyday life, like tracking sport activities, encourage customers to write reviews and build social proof, connect the loyalty program with applications like a store locator or a mini-game.

    • Community Building: Antavo’s loyalty features are used to build a community around a brand through public or VIP groups.

  • Multi-Country Capabilities: With Antavo’s multi-country, multi-language and multi-currency capabilities, the user can expand a loyalty program’s presence to any country on the globe.

  • Reporting: Create custom charts using the Antavo dashboard through a WYSIWYG editor. Synchronize any loyalty metrics in real-time with pre-built data connectors and templates for BI tools.

  • Loyalty AI: Antavo provides specialized loyalty AI, which helps to reduce churn, prevent fraudulent actions and predict the next best action based on accurate loyalty data.

TECHNOLOGY:

  • Stable technology backbone: Antavo’s plugins, SDKs, APIs, webhooks, and mobile SDKs enable wiring the solution with all the tools in use. Depending on the user's policies and priorities, Antavo can store data in the cloud or work in private servers on-premises.

  • Scalability: As a cloud-based SaaS provider running on Google Cloud, Antavo's technology allows full scalability when it comes to various geographic layers, data storage, and user numbers. Antavo mainly scales vertically, but horizontal scaling is also supported through Kubernetes cloud providers' native technologies.

  • Security: Antavo's data protection is based on ISO standards. As a Data Processor (based on GDPR terminology) of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Antavo provides a platform designed to meet the needs of even the highest regulated markets and industries in terms of security.

  • Integrations: Antavo enables hyper-personalized communication through integration with data + commerce + marketing technologies, and Antavo-certified System Integrators, BIG4 consultants and Digital Transformation Agencies. Antavo states they are constantly adding new dedicated integrations, and a general solution is also available. The Incoming Webhook module can accept and handle webhooks from any 3rd party tools.

  • Available Integrations: Bloomreach, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, mParticle, Ometria, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Dotdigital, Maitre'D, Shopify, Strava, Yotpo, Vertical Life, Emarsys, Listrak, Magento, Oracle Responsys, Sailthru, Salesforce Commerce Cloud


MOBILE WALLET SOLUTION - standalone product:

Bridge the gap between online and offline purchases with a turnkey solution that helps reach the smartphone-loving generation. Mobile Wallets are native applications available on every iPhone and Android smartphone. Antavo helps to engage with a customer base using digital:

  • Membership cards

  • Coupons

  • Event tickets

COALITION LOYALTY HUB - standalone product:

For malls and multi-brand companies, the purpose is to connect brands to the loyalty provider, and enable identification and point collection/redemption. It’s a multifunctional device that helps put flexible brand-level instructions and calculations at your staff's fingertips, driven by Antavo's loyalty platform setup.


STORE ASSISTANT PORTAL: standalone product:

Having access to all the customer information, the Store Assistant Portal can make relevant recommendations, drive upsell and x-sell in the store while granting a better experience for customers. Paired with a Mobile Membership App it can be used to increase enrollment rates with virtual coupon promotions as well as to grow the customer base.

2. SERVICES:


Alongside the core loyalty mechanism, Antavo provides additional services:

  • Onboarding Services

    • Platform training

    • On-demand implementation team: Project Manager, Product Experts, Business Analysts

    • Kick-start Implementation package to be self-dependant

    • Program expansions & change requests

  • Proactive Customer Success

    • Dedicated customer success manager with loyalty expertise

    • Engagement plans & monthly meetings

    • Program performance tracking & semiannual business reviews

  • 24/7 Global Support

    • Support team members in 3 continents

    • Help & advice on product configuration

Media

Screenshot of Antavo is a pure-play loyalty program technology vendor.
Screenshot of Antavo’s no-code Workflows tool has a visual editor, so creating, running, and modifying loyalty campaigns & offers requires neither coding nor help from the IT department.
Screenshot of A comprehensive look at a member’s stats, transaction and reward history inside the loyalty platform. Antavo’s Customer Insights helps to answer these questions.
Screenshot of Antavo provides a variety of gamification elements and makes it easier for clients to set up their gamified loyalty program.
Screenshot of Build and manage a reward catalog in Antavo’s Back-office, to allow users to ffer a range of incentives, including experiential rewards, coupons, vouchers, products or even services.
Screenshot of Antavo’s platform offers a built-in editor for Mobile Passes that can be used without a learning curve. The editor is integrated with both Android & iOS platforms.
Screenshot of Drive user-generated content by setting up a hashtag contest on Instagram, or offer a prize to those who leave the best comment on an Instagram post.
Screenshot of Antavo’s platform is equipped with a series of built-in functionalities that boil down program performance into comprehensive reporting to help you decide the next steps.

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Screenshot of Antavo is a pure-play loyalty program technology vendor.

Loyalty solutions out of the box

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed a loyalty platform to use as our foundation for our proposed loyalty program. Antavo allowed us to build and grow a loyalty programme with several elements of customer incentives. We have grown our loyalty base from 0 to 100+ in the space of 2 years with the mechanics available to us through Antavo. It is easy to pick up and has out of the box solutions available to us from the beginning. The integration has been easy and constant customer support has been glorious.

Pros

  • Reward points
  • Digital wallet
  • Integrations
  • Customer insights
  • Workflows
  • Mechanics
  • Customer support
  • Dev support

Cons

  • Urgency of some issues raised

Return on Investment

  • 4x revenue from loyalty members
  • Increased purchases frequency
  • Increased AOV by upto 200%

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

Other Software Used

Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization, Salesforce CRM Analytics, HubSpot CRM

Finger lickin loyalty program

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud to underpin our best in class loyalty program that is based on instant rewards and it enables us to make updates without code development. We switched from a traditional points based approach to an innovative gamification loyalty experience to increase engagement with existing customers and grow our customer base .

Pros

  • The technology that makes sense our innovative loyalty program.
  • -The company's constant evolution improving their features and releasing new ones.
  • -Great customer support.

Cons

  • The onboarding process could have been a bit better with some delays and some integrations taking longer than expected
  • Not enough engagement after the initial launch of the loyalty program for a few months (it got better in the end).

Return on Investment

  • Increased engagement with existing loyalty users
  • Brought new users
  • Increased ROI

Usability

Other Software Used

Uberall, mParticle, Braze

Strengths and Weaknesses of Antavo Loyalty Management Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Antavo is not helping me solve a specific problem in my organization, but it is helping us achieve our set goals. In particular, it allows us to keep users engaged through various customer engagement activities (challenges, surveys, games) and reward them with different types of rewards, both commercial and experiential.

Pros

  • Antavo is a platform easy to use, accessible even for those with limited technical expertise or little experience.
  • Antavo offers seamless integration with other systems.
  • Antavo has the possibility to create and manage different types of rewards and challenges to engage users.
  • Antavo has the possibility to work across two separate environments - test and production - providing a safe space for experimentation and development without impacting the live system.

Cons

  • Antavo has some limitations in terms of customization in certain areas.
  • The data extraction process - both from dashboards and the dedicated module - is not always efficient and straightforward to apply.
  • The quality of service from the service desk could be improved, particularly in terms of response times and the level of support provided.

Return on Investment

  • Loyalty members’ AOV in 2023 was more than twice than AOV of not loyalty members
  • Antavo has positively impacted our overall business objectives by enhancing customer retention over years.
  • Antavo made possible increasing engagement through loyalty challenges and rewards.

Usability

Other Software Used

Twilio Segment, Airship, Tableau Server

Dynamic Program

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used as our advisor loyalty points provider.

Pros

  • Customer Service
  • Agile
  • API connections

Cons

  • Workflow function difficult to use
  • More B2B functionality
  • Dashboards

Return on Investment

  • Over 30K advisors registered in Y1
  • 65 Campaign workflows active
  • 43% increase in reward entries YoY

Usability

Other Software Used

Salesforce Experience Cloud, PUSHTech

Easily Managed Fashion Retail Customer Loyalty Platform

Pros

  • Extremely user friendly.
  • Contributes advice and help consistently.
  • Great feedback and assistance.
  • Great for optimizing campaigns and conversions.

Cons

  • Can't access through mobile devices.
  • Sometimes uploading files doesn't work.
  • Regional languages are not supported in app.

Return on Investment

  • Easily track all the activities on your campaign.
  • Great user behavior tracking.
  • Reporting is very good with special requirements.

Usability