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Creating an Offer

You can use the following procedure and table to create offers. After creating an offer you can associate an offer template with it.

To create an offer

1. Navigate to the Offers screen.
2. In the All Offers list, create a record.
3. Complete the fields, using Table 12 as a guide.

   Table 12.  Selected Offer Fields

   Fields	Comment
   Activation Date	Identifies the date that the offer becomes active. You can associate an inactive offer with a campaign, but when you launch the campaign, only active offers will be executed.
   Approval Status	Indicates if the offer has been submitted, approved, or declined.
   Channel	Identifies the channel used to distribute the offer. For example, Email, Fax, or Wireless Message.
   Create Activity check box	Used for email offer templates. Select this option to set activity logging. When the email is sent, an activity is created for each recipient of the email, stating that the email was sent. The activity record is created through the System Activity Object for either the Campaign Recipient or Campaign Position business components.
   Delivery Profile	Used when sending fax offers. This field is only available in the fax offers view, not in fax offer records in the All Offers view. Profiles are created using the Communications Administration screen's Communications Drivers and Profiles view. For details, see Creating a Delivery Profile for Fax Offers.
   Description	Type a description of the offer.
   Email Marketing Server	Used for email offers only. Allows you to select the Email Marketing Server to use when sending an Email Offer. This server provides the following: From and Reply-To header values. Connection details for the email sending daemon. SMTP envelope Sender address domain (for bounces). Base URL to use in constructing Response Forms and Related URLs. Web Server base URL (for product catalog items, Web offers, Web surveys, and events).
   Expiration Date	Use the calendar controls to select the offer's expiration date. Expired offers should not be associated with campaigns because they will not be sent out when the campaign is launched.
   Language	For email offers, do not change the value in this field.
   Locale	Used to locate the correct, language-specific Web page.
   Offer Code	Contains a unique system-populated code that identifies the offer. You can change this code, but make sure the new value is unique.
   Price List	Used to associate a previously defined price list with this offer. A marketer can create promotional prices for specific products. When an offer recipient clicks a product item hyperlink in an email or Web offer and goes to the product detail Web page, the recipient sees the promotional price that was defined using Siebel Pricer. The set of products associated with the selected price list can be different from the set of products defined in the offer's product list. When a contact responds to an offer, clicks a product link, and goes to the product detail page, the contact sees the promotional price that is defined for that product only if that product is a part of the price list that was selected for this offer. Otherwise, the contact will see the default price for the product.
   Subject Text	Used for email offers. The text that you want to appear in the subject line of the email. You can include merge fields in the subject line if desired. For example: Exciting offer for [Field: M/M] [Field: First Name] [Field: Last Name].
   Subscription List	Allows you to select a marketing list of type Subscription List and associate this list with this offer. The subscription list may already have contacts or prospects or be empty.
   Type	Designates the purpose of the offer. For example, Up-Sell or Cross-Sell.