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Upsell and cross-sell incentives that lift LTV.

Pairing a reward with an upsell offer lifts acceptance, maximizes lifetime value and protects your revenue compared with a discount.

Upsell and cross-sell program overview

Upsell and cross-sell incentives maximize acceptance and lifetime value.

Add a reward to the upsell and cross-sell offers you already run. More customers accept the offer, expand their product use faster and stay longer. Lifetime value grows while your margins stay under control.

Lift

Acceptance rates

A reward at the moment of the offer converts the customers who would otherwise have ignored the upsell or cross-sell offer.

Accelerate

Product expansion

Customers move from one product to two, and from two to three, faster than without an incentive.

Align

Sales channels

The same reward surfaces in self-serve, on a call and in the account manager’s CRM.

Protect

Margin you control

A discount cuts the price for every customer who upgrades. A reward keeps that future revenue intact.

Three steps from offer to verified upgrade.

Seamlessly integrated into the upsell motion your team already runs. The incentive layer is configured once and synced with your billing or CRM system.

  1. Step 1

    Build the offer.

    Define the upsell or cross-sell offer per product, audience segment and goal. Set the reward type, eligibility rules and eligibility window, plus the trigger that releases the reward.

  2. Step 2

    Address the audience.

    The offer surfaces where your customers are: in-product, by email, in the call center, in the account manager’s CRM or in the partner portal. One offer, centrally controlled across every channel.

  3. Step 3

    Reward on verified upgrade.

    Once the upgrade is confirmed in your billing or CRM system, your system reports it to Aklamio via API and the reward is released. The customer claims it from a dashboard in your brand.

The features and services that make an upsell incentive scale.

Every upsell and cross-sell program runs on the same platform and the same managed service. These are the parts that do the work.

API connectors that embed the platform into your stack for automation and full data access.

High-lifetime-value customers are your strongest referrers.

Customers who use several of your products have a higher LTV and refer you more often. A referral program turns that into a measurable acquisition channel. Upsell and cross-sell is also often combined with retention and winback programs to keep these customers or win them back.

Instead of a discount or an in-house build: one platform for every program.

One provider, one platform: set up in a few days, each new upsell or cross-sell campaign in 1-2 hours, and easy to combine with referral, retention or winback programs. Here is how the alternatives compare.

DiscountIn-houseAklamio
MarginA price cut for everyoneReward possible, but run in-houseA reward, with revenue intact
SpeedInstant, but costlyMonths to launchProgram in a few days, each campaign in 1-2 hours
Trigger logicApplies to everyoneBuilt per product in-houseConfigured per product and segment
Upgrade confirmationApplied directly to the planWired team by teamVia API from billing or CRM
Multi-programJust a price cut, not a programEvery program a new projectMore programs in a few days

Built for regulated industries. Ready for procurement.

Compliance and fraud prevention are handled by the platform, not handed back to your team.

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Data protection

GDPR compliant by design. CCPA compliant for US programs. EU data residency and processing agreements available.

Certified & compliant

ISO 27001 certified. SOC 2 compliant. FCA regulated in the UK. Evidence and security questionnaires available on request.

Access & audit

Role-based access control and full audit logs, with multi-factor authentication on every account.

Fraud prevention

Aklamio runs fraud detection and response around the clock. Fraudulent claims caught before they cost you.

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Very quick once I was able to establish…

Very quick once I was able to establish how to get into the account which was not easy to do

Sara Bleanch

Quick and easy to claim a £20 reward…

Quick and easy to claim a £20 reward earned from a Lebara referral. Paid straight into my bank account.

AliB

Es hat alles einwandfrei und…

Es hat alles einwandfrei und unkompliziert geklappt, so wie es versprochen wurde 👍🙂.

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Questions we get asked

Straight answers on reward versus discount, when the reward releases, and how incremental value is measured.

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Why add a reward instead of just discounting the upgrade?+

A reward leaves the recurring price intact while a discount reduces it for the life of the contract. Discounting an upgrade cuts the margin on every month that follows and resets what the customer expects to pay; a one-off reward costs once and leaves the higher price in place. Over a contract term the difference is usually significant.

At what point in the upsell should the reward appear?+

At the moment the offer is made, because that is where hesitation happens. The same reward can surface in a self-serve upgrade flow, on a call center agent's screen, in the account manager's CRM and in an email, so the customer sees one consistent offer regardless of who is making it. If you prefer, the first offer goes out without a reward, and only customers who don’t upgrade on their own get a rewarded offer later. That saves additional margin.

Does the reward release before or after the upgrade is confirmed?+

After. The reward is triggered by a confirmed upgrade in your billing system rather than by an agent marking the sale, which keeps the payout tied to revenue that actually exists. A holding period can be set so that upgrades reversed inside a cooling-off window do not release a reward.

Can the same program cover both upsell and cross-sell?+

Yes, usually one program is enough: upsell and cross-sell offers run in it as individual campaigns. Separate programs can make sense when reporting, program management or communication to your customers should run separately. Both run on the same platform.

How is the incremental value of an upsell incentive measured?+

By comparing acceptance rates between customers offered the reward and a control group that is not. The reward's cost is set against the additional recurring revenue from upgrades that would not otherwise have closed, rather than against all upgrades in the period, because some share of them would have happened anyway. Reward campaigns can also be targeted only at customers who did not respond to a first offer. That increases margin further.

Accelerate your growth with incentives