Sending offer emails

5 Tasks

20 mins

Visible to: All users

Beginner

Pega Customer Decision Hub 8.7

English

Scenario

U+ Bank has recently implemented a project in which credit card offers are presented to qualified customers when they log in to the web self-service portal.

The bank now wants to promote the same offers through email. They want to send the email message to qualified customers. The bank wants to promote only the Standard credit card on the email channel to start.

In preparation, a consultant has already created the Standard Card action, email treatment, and action flow.

You are now expected to make the remaining configurations in Pega Customer Decision Hub™ to present the Standard credit card offer to all qualified customers.

Use the following credentials to log in to the exercise system:

Role	User name	Password
Decisioning Architect	DecisioningArchitect	rules

Your assignment consists of the following tasks:

Task 1: Increase the All outbound action limit and the Email channel contact limit

Increase the All outbound action limit to 50 within 30 days and the Email channel contact limit to 10 within 7 days.

Task 2: Add email treatment to the Standard card action

Configure the Standard card action to add the email channel with an email template, Standard card Email.

Task 3: Configure the Standard card action flow

Configure the Standard card action flow to use the dynamic template, Email flow template.

Task 4: Ensure the Email channel is enabled and configure a scheduled run

In the Next-Best-Action Designer > Channels tab, ensure the Email channel is enabled and configure a scheduled run.

Task 5: Confirm that the customers receive the promotional email

Confirm that the customers receive the promotional email for the Standard card action. Also, verify that the click-through link takes the customer to the Credit Cards landing page.

Challenge Walkthrough

Detailed Tasks

1 Increase the All outbound action limit and the Email channel contact limit

On the exercise system landing page, click Pega CRM suite to log in to Customer Decision Hub .
Log in as the Decisioning Architect with User name DecisioningArchitect and Password rules.
In the navigation pane of Customer Decision Hub, click Next-Best-Action > Designer to open Next-Best-Action Designer.
In Next-Best-Action Designer, click Constraints to access the channel and action limits.
On the Constraints tab, click Edit to modify the limits.
In the Outbound limits section, expand All outbound.
In the Maximum number of actions field, enter 50.

Note: The starting point of the exercise system is the financial services template, where the default contact policy for the all outbound action is 2 actions in 30 days. For training purpose, you increase this value to 50. In your implementation, you choose a value that suits your company's contact policies.

In the Outbound limits section, expand Email.
In the Maximum number of actions field, enter 10.
Click Save.
Note: The starting point of the exercise system is the financial services template, where the default contact policy for the email channel is 1 email in 7 days. For training purpose, you increase this value to 10. In your implementation, you choose a value that suits your company's contact policies.

2 Add email treatment to the Standard card action

In Next-Best-Action Designer, click Engagement policy.
In the Business structure section, click Grow > Credit cards.
In the Grow/ Credit cards section, expand Customer actions.
In the Actions area, click Standard card to open the offer details.
In the Standard card details, click Check out to make changes.
Click the Treatments tab to view existing treatments for this action and configure new treatments.
On the Treatments tab, click Add channel > Email to add a new email treatment.
In the Configure Email Treatment window, to the right of Standard card email, click Add to add the treatment to the action.
Click Apply to confirm the treatment selection and close the window. The treatment is now added to the action.
In the Email section, ensure that the email treatment is enabled.

3 Configure the Standard card action flow

In the Standard card details, click the Flow tab.
To the right of Dynamic template, click None to configure an existing flow template.
In the Configure Dynamic Template window, click Create to create a dynamic email flow template.
In the Create Action window, enter or select the following information:
1. Short description: Email flow template
2. Issue: Grow
3. Group: Credit cards
Click Create and open to open the Edit Action window.
In the Edit Action window, enter/select the following details:
1. Key code: EMAILFLOW
2. Availability: Never
Click the Flow tab to configure the action flow.
Right-click on the canvas and select Add > Send Email.
Connect the Start component to the Send Email component and then the Send Email component to the End component. To connect two components, hover over on the Start component, select the gray triangle on the right, click on it and hold, and draw an arrow to the Send Email component.
Delete the connector between Start and End component in case you still have one.
Click Save to save the values that you entered.
Close the action.
In the Configure Dynamic Template window, click refresh.
To the right of Email flow template, click Add to add the dynamic template to the action.
Click Apply to confirm the flow selection and close the window. The action flow is now added to the action.
Click Check in to save the changes and provide a suitable check-in comment when prompted (for example, Action flow configured).
Close the Standard card details.

4 Ensure the Email channel is enabled and configure a schedule run.

In Next-Best-Action Designer, click Channels.
Click Edit to make changes.
Ensure the Email channel is enabled.
Scroll down. In the Primary Schedule section, in the Recurrence area, click the Gear icon to schedule run frequency.
In the Recurring by section, select Every day.
In the Start section, click the calendar icon.
Set the time to the current time in the US EST time zone.
Click Today to populate today's date as the Start date.

Note: You can select a time in past. However, the primary schedule run configuration cannot accept a past date.

In the End section, ensure that No end date is selected.
Select the Refresh the audience check box to ensure that the latest customer information is always used when running the schedule.
Click Submit.
In the Starting population area, click the Gear icon to select the customers who are qualified to receive the outbound message.
In the Configure Audience window, to the right of All outbound customers, click Add to add the segment.
Click Apply to confirm the segment selection and close the window.
Click Save to save the changes made to Channels.
In the Primary Schedule section, click the More icon (three dots), and then select Run to run the outbound schedule.
Note: When you refresh the tab, the status changes to Running when it starts processing. An entry for upcoming runs appears in the Run Schedule section.

Click Action > Refresh to see the latest status of the run.
Once the run is complete, click COMPLETED to view the results.

Note: Your run results number might not match the numbers shown in the exercise steps as the segment used in the exercise system selects a random sample of customers in each run.

5 Confirm that the customers receive the promotional email

In the browser tab where you accessed your Pega Academy exercise system, click Email.
Access the mailbox and open emails to record impressions to simulate customer behavior.
In the email message, click APPLY TODAY to record clicks and simulate positive customer behavior.
Log into Customer Decision Hub.
In the header, click Reports, and then select Interaction History.
Click the Recent interactions tab.
Notice the recorded outcomes.