Using Leaderboard Points to Redeem Swag
Overview
This guide goes through setting up a currency system to use leaderboard points to redeem items. This setup uses a global leaderboard’s points as currency that gets deducted once a player redeems an item, an item being an activation or a Scavenger Hunt waypoint that deducts score instead of giving score.
Prerequisites
For this setup to work, the players doing the scanning must be identified prospects.
This means this needs to work in conjunction with either of the following:
A registration platform integration (such as Swapcard or Swoogo).
If forms are used using ‘Without Capture’ mode, they need to have an identifying parameter, such as ‘ll_3p_email’ attahced to the URL. (ex. ll_3p_email=[[[email]]] for Swapcard).
A capture form that captures the prospect before launching the activation to be used at least once during the event. Once a prospect is captured once, their information gets cached for subsequent plays. However, to be identified, they still need to go through ‘With Capture’ mode, even if the form is skipped due to a previous submission
A Captello email campaign (since a prospect is already identified if they click a link in an email from a campaign).
Step 1: Setting up a Global Leaderboard
From Events > Activation > Leaderboards, click New.
For more customization options, refer to the following guide: Global Leaderboards
Step 2: Setting up Global Leaderboard Scoring
This is a really important step that ensures points tracking is working correctly.
From Leaderboard Mode, select ‘All Points’
From Leaderboard Values, select 'All'
Step 3: Setting up Score-Giving Activations
Creating an Activation
Form the activations page, click New.
Any type of activation will work. This will only be to add score to the leaderboard, so the score can be used later to redeem items.
Connecting The Activation to the Leaderboard
From the Scoring page, select the created leaderboard under the Share Points section.
Step 4: Setting up Redeemable Items
A redeemable item can be any type of activation, albeit recommended to be a waypoint. The following example uses a waypoint activation:
Creating an Activation
Form the activations page, click New.
For more customization settings, refer to the corresponding activation article, in this example, a Waypoint activation is used.
Setting up Point Deduction For Redeeming
The following is set up inside the created activation. It may look similar to the Global Leaderboard settings.
From the Scoring page:
Set Leaderboard Point Factor to -1
Set Points to the desired ‘price’ of the item
Select the leaderboard to deduct the points from
Preventing Scanning with Insufficient Points
From the Settings page:
Set Controlling Leaderboard to the same leaderboard that it deducts points from (same one selected in the step above).
Select Greater than or equals and add the price of the item (same price set in the step above), then add a message for insufficient points.
Good to Have: Display Leaderboard Points on Progress Report
If you’re using a Progress Report/Goal for the event, it’s recommended to turn on the following option, so players can keep track of their currency points along with their progress.
Your event is now set up to use leaderboard points as currency!