Channel - MDF/Rebates
Grass Roots payment services solution empowers you to execute and measure the complete range of value programs you provide your channel.
- Marketing development funds (MDF)
- Cooperative advertising payments (Co-Op)
- Rebates
The payment services platform centralizes and automates every component of your program including POS calculations, budgets, banking data validation, spending, claims and other critical data, allowing you to more effectively manage your program, and not focus on program administration.
The Grass Roots payment services solution is composed of several modules that interact with our sales incentive platforms, for a more effective channel incentive program. These modules can also operate as a stand alone or can interact with a Vendor’s own infrastructure via web services, providing you real-time online performance reporting that includes ROI measurement, program compliance and adoption, among many others.
Features
- Automated POS calculations
- Base budget or accrual rates on partner tier and/or certification
- Multi-lingual options allow global and multi-country program management
- Automates budgets or accruals based upon percentages or fixed dollar amounts
- Accrue based on achievement of depth and breadth growth objectives
- Automated banking information validation
- Individual accounts by channel partner
- Automatically expire funds, with or without a review process
Automated email notices of accrual or expiring funds
Grass Roots modular platform infrastructure makes it easy to customize business rules and manage and track progress, objectives, activities and your target audience. Your partners can now have real-time dashboard views of their performance in your program. You may also customize the web portal to adopt your corporate image, and integrate with your existing systems via Web Services.
Advantages:
- Managed services model (SaaS)
- Web Services (API) integration with vendor partner portal, extranets, corporate intranets, etc.
- Segment to partner competency, certification, accreditation and region
- Streamlines communications by providing 24x7 real-time data
- End-to-end automation of claim and payment settlements
- Geographical and language segmentation
This solution empowers you to manage, track, approve and analyze MDF/Co-Op and Rebate payments in real-time on a worldwide basis, because in the current business environment, the complex needs of the channel finance office require leveraging best practices and platforms into a single global below-the-line agency, for cost efficient and more effective handling of your resources.
Grass Roots understands these challenges and has a wealth of experience in designing and developing programs that drive channel performance across national and international boundaries.
We manage everything including:
- Communication (offline and online media)
- Promotion materials and launch events
- Enablement, education, learning
- Measurement, reporting and surveying
- Reward fulfillment (in accordance with local law and taxes)
- Events and Public relations
Grass Roots channel payment solutions inspire and motivate the partner principals in your channel, to promote and sell your brand over your competition.
The Grass Roots Group employs over 1,000 professionals working from 27 Grass Roots companies spread out thorough the largest 16 economies of the world. Grass Roots is your local channel marketing agency, that supports all your global channel needs.
