Kahala Brands Boosts The Counter’s Average Ticket by $5 with Paytronix-Powered Promo

Paytronix Loyaltees Award Winner for Marketing Innovation creates ‘Big Game’ campaign that leverages survey, A/B test, and target-and-control features to impact franchisee businesses


NEWTON, Mass., June 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paytronix Systems, Inc., the real-time guest experience platform, today announced that Kahala Brands has won the 2018 Paytronix Loyaltees Award for Marketing Innovation. The Kahala Brands marketing team deployed the Paytronix survey and target-and-control features in a “Big Game” campaign that demonstrated how effective The Counter’s Counter Points loyalty program can be in driving franchisee businesses.

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Kahala Brands recently acquired up-and-coming burger franchise chain The Counter, which was running the Paytronix-powered Counter Points loyalty program.  The Kahala team was already successful at leveraging all of Paytronix’ engaging features on behalf of the Pinkberry® brand. They wanted to create that same excitement and engagement amongst the Counter Points members, raise visits and spend to new heights, and demonstrate how the program benefits the brand to its franchisee community.

To launch its “Big Game” promotion, Kahala engaged program members with a one-to-one online survey. Each member told Kahala which team they were rooting for in the “Super Big Trademarked Game.” When guests completed the survey, a $5 reward was placed on their account and an email inviting them to enjoy the Big Game at The Counter was deployed. To test just how engaged the base was, members were given 24 hours to respond.

Response to The Counter’s Big Game promotion was overwhelmingly positive: Using the campaign center, The Counter tracked the visits and spend the campaign generated. The team found that two percent of the targeted audience responded – a high rate considering the small window of time and multi-step process.

The highest engagement was among the Blue Team fans who opened the email at a rate of 80 percent, and 33 percent of them visited The Counter with a ticket average $5 more than the Green Team fans.  

The Counter’s Big Game campaign also leveraged the Paytronix target-and-control feature to look beyond open rates because the higher open rate may have a lower EatThruSM rate. The campaign demonstrated to the franchisees how much more they can do with Paytronix.

“Before this campaign, The Counter was running its Counter Points loyalty program like an eClub. It thought more emails were better. The Paytronix-powered Big Game campaign helped the Kahala Brands marketing team demonstrated to its new brand that a data driven approach was better. We’re here to deliver an effective program across all The Counter locations so that our franchisees can focus on running their locations,” said Jessica Wegener, vice president of Interactive Marketing at Kahala Brands.

About Paytronix Systems, Inc.
Based in Newton, Massachusetts, Paytronix is a provider of SaaS customer experience management (CXM) solutions for restaurants and convenience store brands. Through its innovative software design and integrations with widely used point of sale systems, Paytronix empowers more than 330 customers with the flexibility to build unique, revenue-enhancing guest experiences. Customers benefit from big data consumer insights that Paytronix generates through 1-to-1 engagement with more than 165 million loyal guests—via mobile, social and today’s most innovative digital marketing tools. As a result, customers motivate their guests to increase spend and drive revenue. For more information, visit www.paytronix.com.

Media Contact:
Michelle Tempesta
Paytronix Systems, Inc.
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617-871-2330