Reward your volunteers
Would you like to say a little thank you to the people who help run your community food enterprise? One option is to allow staff and volunteers to have a small discount off any shopping they do. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to implement this. The process draws on the highly flexible Customer Management tools available using Tags and Tag Rules.
- Ask your volunteers to let you know the email address linked to their OFN account.
- Use the ‘Quick Search’ box to identify if the person has shopped with you before.
- If their email address doesn’t appear then click + New Customer and add their address.
- Add the tag ‘volunteer’ to the customer’s entry.
- Click + New Payment Method.
Name: Volunteer 5% Discount
Description: Thank you for helping us run our local food hub.
Display: Both Checkout and Back Office
Active: yes
Tags: Add the tag ‘volunteer’ into this space.
Provider: choose the most appropriate method for your business.
Fee Calculator: Flat Percent
- After selecting Create, add ‘-5’ * to the ‘Amount’ field of the ‘Fee Calculator’ Section. (Negative sign results in a discount) *-5 will result in a 5% discount if your enterprise does not use Enterprise Fees.
All percentage fees are calculated on a percentage of product costs only.
If your business adds a flat percent Enterprise Fee to all products then the amount you need to enter into the 'Flat Percent' field for this discount payment method is:
eg. for a business with an enterprise fee of 20% who would like to offer a 5% discount to volunteers, the amount to enter in the flat percent of this payment method is:
- Visit your Enterprise -> Settings page and select ‘Tag Rules’ from the left hand menu. Set up the following Tag rules:
Default: Payment Methods tagged ‘volunteer’ are not visible.
For customers tagged ‘volunteer’ payment methods tagged ‘volunteer’ are visible.
Bingo! Only your volunteers will be offered a 5% discount when they shop with you.
Checkout view for volunteer
Checkout view for all other customers