{"id":52367,"date":"2026-04-20T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/glossary\/loyalty-points-allocation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:19:06","slug":"loyalty-points-allocation","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/glossary\/loyalty-points-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty points allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loyalty points or benefits provisioning involves a company establishing a financial reserve to guarantee the availability of benefits earned by its customers, such as loyalty points, discounts, or point balances. This practice, which can offer tax advantages, is complex to implement due to the need to estimate the probability of accumulated points being redeemed. For large retailers, the amount of pending benefits can reach considerable sums, sometimes amounting to millions of euros. For example, according to a report from July 2016, the 27 million members of Air France&#8217;s Flying Blue loyalty program had accumulated a total of 20 trillion miles in their accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyalty points or benefits provisioning involves a company establishing a financial reserve to guarantee the availability of benefits earned by its customers, such as loyalty points, discounts, or point balances. This practice, which can offer tax advantages, is complex to implement due to the need to estimate the probability of accumulated points being redeemed. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_glossary-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[82],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-52367","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-crm-customer-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/52367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/52367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=52367"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=52367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}