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Birthday points weren’t awarded

If a customer did not receive birthday points, check whether birthday earning is on, they saved a birthday, and when points are due in EarnKit.

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If a customer says they didn’t get their birthday points, work through these checks.

Birthday points are off

Go to ProgramWays to Earn and check Award birthday points is on.

The customer hasn’t saved a birthday

Customers add their birthday themselves, from their Rewards page. If they haven’t saved one yet, there’s nothing for EarnKit to award against.

They enrolled on their birthday this year

Birthday points require the birthday to fall strictly after the day the customer saved it. A customer who enters their birthday on the day itself won’t receive points until their next birthday.

It isn’t their birthday yet this year

Birthday points are awarded once a year, on the customer’s saved date. If their birthday hasn’t come around yet this year, the points aren’t due.

They were born on February 29

In years that aren’t leap years, a February 29 birthday is celebrated on 28 February. The saved date still reads February 29; only the day the points are awarded shifts.

The saved birthday is wrong

Customers can only save their birthday once and can’t change it themselves afterwards. EarnKit has no tool to correct a birthday once it’s saved, for you or for the customer.