{"id":154309,"date":"2017-02-01T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=154309"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:34:37","slug":"heres-how-the-starbucks-rewards-system-will-work-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/154309\/heres-how-the-starbucks-rewards-system-will-work-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how the Starbucks rewards system will work in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has launched its popular rewards programme in South Africa,\u00a0allowing customers to redeem rewards for their purchases, and also pay at select stores through the Starbucks mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks Rewards has two levels, Green and Gold, with each tier offering value-added benefits to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customers start on the Green level and earn <strong>one star for every R2 spent.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When customers have <strong>earned 250 stars<\/strong>, they unlock rewards such as free handcrafted beverages and food.<\/li>\n<li>Members can also enjoy exclusive offers such as early access to seasonal beverages.<\/li>\n<li>To get to the Gold level, customers need to <strong>earn 750 stars<\/strong> when they can access even more benefits, like free coffee on\u00a0their birthday, free refills on freshly brewed coffee and tea, as well as invitations to member-only events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In effect, <strong>customers need to spend R500 to unlock rewards, and R1,500 to move up to gold level<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can join the programme by registering directly on the app or through a Starbucks card available from stores.<\/p>\n<p>The company also introduced its mobile app, which offers a complete cashless payment system, which allows customers to pay for purchases using a &#8220;shake and pay&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;digital card&#8217; part of the app can be topped up with a credit card, while other features such as a store locator (with an option to hail a cab directly though the app)\u00a0and a rewards tracker are also included.<\/p>\n<p>The app is available for both Android and iOS users.<\/p>\n<p>Starbucks launched in South Africa in April 2016 with two main branches in Sandton and Mall of Africa. A third branch was opened in Menlyn Maine in Pretoria in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Taste Holdings, the Starbucks brand owner in South Africa said it plans to\u00a0open 16 more outlets in the coming years.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to More Starbucks stores for SA\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/136323\/more-starbucks-stores-for-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">More Starbucks stores for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbucks has launched its popular rewards programme in South Africa, allowing customers to redeem rewards for their purchases,and also pay at select stores through the Starbucks mobile app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[25,1818],"class_list":["post-154309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-starbucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154329,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154309\/revisions\/154329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}