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3.3.2 Configure your offers and decision

3.3.2.1 Create your personalized offers

In this exercise, you’ll create four Personalized Offers. Here are the details to take into account when creating those offers:

Name
Date Range
Image Link for Email
Image Link for Web
Text
Priority
Eligibility
Language
Capping Frequency
Image Name
--aepUserLdap-- - AirPods Max
today - 1 month later
https://bit.ly/4a9RJ5d
Choose from Assets Library
{{ profile.person.name.firstName }}, 10% discount on AirPods Max
25
all - Female Customers
English (United States)
3
Apple AirPods Max- Female.jpg
--aepUserLdap-- - Galaxy S24
today - 1 month later
https://bit.ly/3W8yuDv
Choose from Assets Library
{{ profile.person.name.firstName }}, 5% discount on Galaxy S24
15
all - Female Customers
English (United States)
3
Galaxy S24 – Female.jpg
--aepUserLdap-- - Apple Watch
today - 1 month later
https://bit.ly/4fGwfxX
https://bit.ly/4fGwfxX
{{ profile.person.name.firstName }}, 10% discount on Apple Watch
25
all - Male Customers
English (United States)
3
Apple Watch - Male.jpg
--aepUserLdap-- - Galaxy Watch 7
today - 1 month later
https://bit.ly/4gTrkeo
Choose from Assets Library
{{ profile.person.name.firstName }}, 5% discount on Galaxy Watch 7
15
all - Male Customers
English (United States)
3
Galaxy Watch7 - Male.jpg

Login to ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Journey Optimizer by going to . Click Journey Optimizer.

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You’ll be redirected to the Home view in Journey Optimizer. First, make sure you’re using the correct sandbox. The sandbox to use is called --aepSandboxName--. You’ll then be in the Home view of your sandbox --aepSandboxName--.

ACOP

In the left menu, click Offers and then go to Offers. Click + Create Offer.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this popup. Select Personalized offer and click Next.

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You’re now on the Details view.

Decision Rule

In this case, you need to configure the offer --aepUserLdap-- - AirPods Max. Use the information in the table above to fill out the fields. In this example, the name of the Personalized Offer is vangeluw - AirPods Max. Also, set the Start date and time to today, and set the End date and time to a date in a month from now.

Once done, you should have this. Click Next.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this:

Decision Rule

Select By defined decision rule and click the + icon to add the rule all - Female Customers.

Fill out the Priority as indicated in the above table. Next, click + Create capping to define the number of times this offer can be shown to a customer.

Decision Rule

For the capping, select the following:

  • Choose capping event: Decision event
  • Capping type: Per profile (Apply cap for each profile)
  • Capping event count: 3
  • Reset capping frequency: Daily
  • Every: 1 day

This will ensure that this offer won’t be shown more than 3 times per day per customer.

Click Create.

Decision Rule

You’ll then be back here. Click Next.

Decision Rule

You now need to create Representations. Representations are a combination of a Placement and a real asset.

For Representation 1, select:

  • Channel: Web
  • Placement: Web - Image
  • Content: URL
  • Public location: copy the URL from the column Image Link for Web in the above table

Decision Rule

Alternatively, you can select Asset library for the content and then click Browse.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see a popup of the Assets Library, go to the folder enablement-assets and select the image file Apple AirPods Max - Female.jpg. Then, click Select.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Click + Add Representation.

Decision Rule

For Representation 2, select:

  • Channel: Email
  • Placement: Email - Image
  • Content: URL
  • Public location: select Asset library. Click Browse

Decision Rule

You’ll then see a popup of the Assets Library, go to the folder enablement-assets and select the image file Apple AirPods Max - Female.jpg. Then, click Select.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Next, click + Add representation.

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For Representation 3, select:

  • Channel: Non-digital
  • Placement: Non-digital - Text

Next, you need to add content. In this case that means adding the text to be used as a call to action.

Select Custom and click Add Content.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this popup.

Decision Rule

Look at the Text field from the above table and enter that text here, in this case: {{ profile.person.name.firstName }}, 10% discount on AirPods Max.

You’ll also notice that you can select any profile attribute and include it as a dynamic field in the offer text. In this example, the field {{ profile.person.name.firstName }} will ensure that the first name of the customer that will receive this offer will be included in the offer text.

You’ll then see this. Click Save.

Decision Rule

You now have this. Click Next.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see an overview of your new Personalized Offer. Click Finish.

Decision Rule

Click Save and approve.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see your newly created Personalized Offer become available in the Offers Overview:

Decision Rule

You should now repeat the above steps to create the three other Personalized Offers for the products that you can find in the above table.

When done, your Offer Overviews screen for Personalized Offers should show all your offers.

Final Offers

3.3.2.2 Create your fallback offer

After having created four Personalized Offers, you should now configure a Fallback Offer.

Make sure you’re in the Offers view. Click + Create Offer.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this popup. Select Fallback offer and click Next.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Enter this name for your fallback offer: --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Fallback Offer. Click Next.

Decision Rule

You now need to create Representations. Representations are a combination of a Placement and a real asset.

For Representation 1, select:

  • Channel: Web
  • Placement: Web - Image
  • Content: Asset library

Click Browse to select your image.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see a popup of the Assets Library, go to the folder citi-signal-images and select the image file App-Banner-Ad.jpg. Then, click Select.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Click + Add representation.

Decision Rule

For Representation 2, select:

  • Channel: Email
  • Placement: Email - Image
  • Content: Asset library

Click Browse to select your image.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see a popup of the Assets Library, go to the folder citi-signal-images and select the image file App-Banner-Ad.jpg. Then, click Select.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Click + Add representation.

Decision Rule

For Representation 3, select:

  • Channel: Non-digital
  • Placement: Non-digital - Text
  • Content: Custom

Click Add Content.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this popup. Enter the text {{ profile.person.name.firstName }}, download the CitiSignal app now! and click Save.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Click Next.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see an overview of your new Fallback Offer. Click Finish.

Decision Rule

Finally, click Save and approve.

Decision Rule

In your Offer Overviews screen, you’ll now see this:

Final Offers

3.3.2.3 Create your collection

A Collection is used to filter out a sub-set of offers from the personalized offer list and use that as part of an Decision in order to speed up the decision process.

Go to Collections. Click + Create Collection.

Decision Rule

You’l then see this popup. Configure your Collection like this. Click Next.

  • Collection name: use --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Collection
  • Select Create static collection.

Click Next.

Decision Rule

In the next screen, select the four Personalized Offers you created in the previous exercise. Click Save.

Decision Rule

You’ll now see this:

Decision Rule

3.3.2.4 Create your decision

A Decision combines Placements, a Collection of Personalized Offers and a Fallback Offer to ultimately be used by the Offer Decisioning engine to find the best offer for a specific profile, based on each of the individual personalized offer characteristics like priority, eligibility constraint and total / user capping.

To configure your Decision, go to Decisions. Click + Create Decision.

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You’ll then see this. Fill out the fields like this. Click Next.

  • Name: --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Decision
  • Start date and time: today
  • End date and time: today + 1 month

Decision Rule

In the next screen, you need to add placements into decision scopes. You’ll need to create decision scopes for the placements Web - Image, Email - Image and Non-digital - Text.

Decision Rule

First, create the decision scope for Non-digital - Text by selecting that placement in the dropdown. Then, click the Add button to add evaluation criteria.

Decision Rule

Select your collection --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Collection and click Add.

Decision Rule

You’ll then see this. Click the + button to add a new decision scope.

Decision Rule

Select the placement Web - Image and add your collection --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Collection under evaluation criteria. Then, click the + button again to add a new decision scope.

Decision Rule

Select the placement Email - Image and add your collection --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Collection under evaluation criteria. Then, click Next.

Decision Rule

You now need to select your Fallback Offer, which is named --aepUserLdap-- - CitiSignal Fallback Offer. Click Next.

Decision Rule

Review your decision. Click Finish.

Decision Rule

In the popup, click Save and activate.

Decision Rule

And finally, you’ll now see your decision in the overview:

Decision Rule

You’ve now successfully configured your decision. Your decision is now live, and can be used to deliver optimized and personalized offers to your customers, in real-time.

Next Step: 3.3.3 Prepare your Data Collection Client property and Web SDK setup for Offer Decisioning

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