Take full control over your loyalty program by ensuring your points system remains dynamic and engaging. The myCred Expiration Addon allows you to implement automated expiration rules for your users’ point balances, encouraging consistent participation and preventing the indefinite accumulation of points. Whether you want to clear inactive balances or create a sense of urgency to boost spending, this addon provides the essential tools to keep your gamification strategy fresh, relevant, and effective.
Key Features
- Automated Expiration Rules: Define specific timeframes after which user points will automatically expire, helping you manage your liability and maintain a healthy points economy.
- Flexible Expiration Logic: Choose between different expiration methods, such as expiring points based on the date they were earned or based on the last time a user was active.
- Customizable Notifications: Automatically alert your users before their points are set to expire, giving them a final opportunity to redeem their rewards and increasing engagement.
- Exclusion Settings: Easily exclude specific point types or user roles from the expiration process to ensure your most loyal customers or special reward categories remain unaffected.
- Log and Tracking: Keep a detailed record of expired points within your myCred logs, providing full transparency for both administrators and users regarding balance adjustments.
- Seamless Integration: Designed to work natively with the core myCred framework, ensuring that expiration rules are applied consistently across your entire WordPress site without technical conflicts.
Use Cases and Who It’s For
The myCred Expiration Addon is an indispensable tool for any business or community manager using myCred to power their loyalty or gamification systems. It is particularly effective for e-commerce store owners looking to drive repeat purchases; by setting points to expire, you create a “use it or lose it” incentive that motivates customers to return to your shop and redeem their rewards before they vanish.
This addon is also ideal for membership sites and educational platforms. If you reward users for completing courses or participating in forums, implementing expiration dates ensures that your leaderboard remains competitive and reflects current activity rather than historical achievements from years past. It helps keep your community active by rewarding recent engagement, ensuring that your points system accurately represents the current value of your users to your platform.
Setup and How It Works
- Install and Activate: Once you have downloaded the addon, install and activate it through your WordPress dashboard just like any other plugin.
- Access Settings: Navigate to the myCred settings menu, where a new tab or section for the Expiration Addon will appear.
- Define Expiration Rules: Configure your desired expiration period. You can set a global rule for all points or create specific rules for different point types.
- Configure Notifications: Set up the email templates that will be sent to users to notify them of upcoming expirations. You can customize the timing of these alerts to ensure maximum impact.
- Test and Monitor: Once saved, the system will begin monitoring point balances automatically. You can review the status of expired points in the myCred logs to ensure everything is functioning according to your requirements.
Similar Plugins
While myCred is a comprehensive ecosystem, other loyalty solutions offer similar expiration functionality, such as WooCommerce Points and Rewards, which includes built-in expiration settings for store-based loyalty programs. Additionally, GamiPress offers its own ecosystem of points and gamification, including extensions that handle point expiration and decay, serving as a primary alternative for those not already committed to the myCred framework.