'Day Pass' Subscriptions (NCS Circ)
This document contains information about 'Day Pass' subscriptions, including the setup guide.
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This page was last updated on 30 July 2024.
Day Pass subscriptions are low-cost, low-commitment digital subscriptions that grant users 1-Day premium access to Publications. If a user purchases a 'Day Pass' subscription today, they can access the premium content until midnight the next day. Currently, only the NCS circulation system supports Day Pass subscriptions.
Goal
The goal of this section is to explain how to configure a 'Day Pass' Subscription offer in the SolCon application.
Details
Subscribe supports only digital-only day pass.
The validity of a Day Pass subscription is just 1 day. The subscription will expire by midnight of the following day of subscription purchase. This means, if the subscription was purchased on August 1st (regardless of the exact time), it will expire at 00:00 AM on August 3rd.
Day passes cannot be auto-renewed.
Day passes must be purchased in advance. Grace periods are not supported.
Day passes can have discounts, but the Rate type in NCS Circ should be set as 'Normal'. It should not be 'Reduced' or 'Promo rates'.
Business Rules must be configured in NCS to indicate whether the Single-Day Passes should be counted as one day or two in AAM reporting.
Single Day Pass subscriptions are counted as single-copy digital sales for AAM purposes by default. However, Day pass subscriptions have a 24-hour window and readers can typically access the website on two different days. Hence AAM also allows a Single Day Pass to be counted as two copies.
Day pass start is always a Campaign-code start, hence
'Day Pass' Campaign code should be configured in NCS Circ.
Campaign-code start feature should be turned ON. For more info: New starts in NCS - Campaign-code subscription purchase
Pre-requisites
To implement this feature, the following pre-requisites must be met:
Minimum Subscribe version: 3.17.0
Minimum NCS circ version: 2014.5
Minimum Extracts Version: 5
Campaign code must be configured in NCS Circ
Setup the service_type and product named 'DAYPASS' in Subscribe. Please raise an SF case to get this done.
SolCon Setup
From the Solicitor Concierge dashboard:
Select Offer Groups from the left sidebar. Your offer groups will appear in a list to the right.
Select an Offer group from the list, or create a new offer group.
Select the Additional options section. Expand the Payment method option from the right-side menu.
Select at least one of the physical payment methods like Credit card or Bank draft, along with Paid pass option.
Select the Coding section. Expand the Custom codes option from the right-side menu.
Enter 'Day Pass' in the Campaign Code field.
Select Update or Save as new.
CMS setup
No specific setup is required. If your offer is set up as a ZIP-only offer, please remember to use ZIP-only presentation.
Outcome
Congratulations! You've added a 'Day Pass' Subscription offer in the SolCon and CMS dashboards.
Points to Note:
The Subscription kind of active Day Pass subscriptions will be set as ‘PaidPass’.
Whenever the Day Pass subscription is created in Subscribe, the End Date will be saved as 'Start Date + 1'.
The nightly sync process updates the HHL (HH sub level) & Access level as and when the End Date is reached.
Whenever the Subscriber status becomes ‘Stopped’ for a Day Pass subscription, access to the publication content will be denied to the user.
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