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# How-to Guide

Know exactly what to click. These step-by-step guides walk you through building a loyalty program on Shopify — from your first earn rule and reward type to the launch email that gets members enrolling on day one. No guesswork, no missed settings: just the setup that takes you from install to live, with a program that already looks and works like your brand.

- [Shopify Scripts Deprecation: The First BFCM Without Them](https://joy.so/blog/md/shopify-scripts-deprecation-bfcm/): Shopify Scripts stopped running on 30 June 2026. The scripts written only for last year's sale are the ones not yet missed.
- [What Does a Discounted Order Earn? Four Apps, Four Answers](https://joy.so/blog/md/points-earning-base-discounted-orders/): A $100 jacket at 40% off: does it earn 100 points or 60? Four loyalty apps, four answers, and one test that settles it.
- [BFCM Readiness: Shopify Tests Checkout, Nobody Tests Your Widget](https://joy.so/blog/md/prepare-shopify-store-for-black-friday/): Shopify scale-tests checkout at 80,000 a minute. The risk you own is the storefront, measured on the signed-in path.
- [Shopify Discount Combinations: Why Your Loyalty Reward Will Not Stack](https://joy.so/blog/md/shopify-discount-combinations-loyalty/): Shopify does not combine discounts by default, and the setting only reaches reward codes issued after you change it.
- [Online + POS Loyalty: Identity, Receipts, and Reconciliation](https://joy.so/blog/md/pos-loyalty-program/): Design one loyalty ledger across ecommerce, POS, and retail receipts with identity controls, idempotency, refunds, and reconciliation.
- [Should Customers Earn Loyalty Points on Bundles and Subscription Orders?](https://joy.so/blog/md/loyalty-points-on-bundles-and-subscriptions/): A policy framework for points, VIP spend, redemptions, refunds, and multipliers on bundle and subscription orders.
- [Referral Partner Program: A 6-Step Guide to Real Revenue](https://joy.so/blog/md/referral-partner-program/): A practical guide to building a referral partner program: how it differs from customer referrals, a 6-step setup, commission models, the metrics that matter, and why most stall.
- [B2B Referral Program: How to Build One That Drives Revenue](https://joy.so/blog/md/b2b-referral-program-how-to-build-one-that-drives-revenue/): Most B2B brands already get referrals by accident. Here’s how to turn them into a system: readiness checks, a 5-step build, and why most programs stall.
- [How to Measure Brand Loyalty: 6 Critical Metrics for 2026](https://joy.so/blog/md/how-to-measure-brand-loyalty-6-critical-metrics-for-2026/): Likes don't equal loyalty - and neither do single-purchase sales. This guide breaks down how to measure brand loyalty with 6 critical metrics: LTV, repeat purchase rate, retention rate, point redemption, NPS, and UGC. Plus benchmarks for 2026 - when acquisition costs are 4× higher.
- [Brand Loyalty Questionnaire: 9 Strategic Steps for 2026](https://joy.so/blog/md/brand-loyalty-questionnaire-9-strategic-steps-for-2026/): Likes don't reveal why customers stay. A brand loyalty questionnaire does. This guide breaks down 9 strategic steps to design, distribute, and act on surveys — from NPS and CSAT setup to automated follow-ups — so you can stop guessing and start retaining at lower acquisition costs.
- [Brand Loyalty Statistics: The 2026 Profitability Guide](https://joy.so/blog/md/brand-loyalty-statistics-the-2026-profitability-guide/): Facebook CAC jumped 295% in a year. Allbirds got 1700% ROI from loyalty. This 2026 brand loyalty statistics guide unpacks the benchmarks that separate profitable retention from expensive acquisition — plus the redemption rates, LTV math, and Gen Z data behind today's top programs.

- [How to Build a Customer Loyalty Survey That Prevents Churn](https://joy.so/blog/md/customer-loyalty-survey/): Most brands feel churn coming but never ask why. A well-designed customer loyalty survey flags at-risk customers while they're still buying — covering NPS, CSAT, and CES, question design, and how to turn feedback into retention action.

## Pages

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