Glossary - Data Types

The Loyalty platform supports the following Data Types for Member Attributes:

• Boolean: Used for fields that allow only two possible values, such as yes / no or true / false.

• Date: Used to store a calendar date.

• Decimal: Used to store numeric data, with both a precision (total number of digits) and a scale (number of digits to the right of the decimal point).

• Email: Used to store a Member's email address. This Attribute can be used to contact Members when sending email messages.

• Integer: Used to store numeric data (with no decimals).

• Phone: Used to store a Member's mobile phone number. This Attribute can be used to contact Members when sending SMS text messages.

• String: Used to store text.

• DateTime: Used to store values that contain both date and time components.

• URL: Used to store website URLs.

• Table: Used to store a result set.

• List of String: Used to store multiple string values in the same field.

• Long: Used to store numeric data (with no decimals) that require a larger range of values than what can be stored in an Integer Attribute.

• TimeSeries: Represents the values of a measure recorded over a time interval.