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"As part of the new Fair Consumer Contracts Act,[1] Germany will soon require specific cancellation/termination mechanisms for consumer subscriptions. These mechanisms come on top of the updated EU-wide consumer contract rules under the EU Directives on Contracts for Digital Services and Content and on Contracts for the Consumer Sale of Goods and will take effect on July 1, 2022." 

Businesses offering subscriptions to German consumers will have to provide a specifically labeled button for their online retail channels that leads to a contact form through which consumers must be enabled to cancel existing subscriptions with the click of only one further button. If sufficient data to identify the subscription to be canceled is entered by the consumer, the submission of the form will itself be a valid cancellation, the effect of which cannot be made subject to further steps such as logins or second factor (e.g., email, app) confirmations.

The solution, therefore, requires the following; 

  • Certain online channels through which consumers can enter into subscriptions will have to prominently feature an omnipresent button labeled “Terminate contracts here” (Verträge hier kündigen).
  • Operating the “Terminate contracts here” button must lead directly to a form where the consumer can enter (i) identifying information on the person of the consumer and the contract that they intend to terminate (e.g., consumer name, contract/customer number etc.), (ii) information as to the type of termination that is sought (i.e., for cause or for convenience), (iii) an intended subscription end date, as well as (iv) an address for the provider to send an electronic submission receipt to.
  • The page with the aforementioned form must contain a second button labeled “terminate now” (jetzt kündigen). Operating this button must directly submit the form content.
  • Provided that sufficient data was entered, the submission will be a valid termination, which cannot be made dependent on further steps such as logins or second factor (e.g., email, app) confirmations.
  • The provider will also have to immediately confirm the submission electronically to the address provided for such confirmation in the form.

(https://www.mofo.com/, May 2022)


User's journey








Internet users will choose
one of the available links

Institution landing page
(Check the footer link)

The institutional page

Managed by SecuTix client
or by their digital agency




Click on the link opens a form (as seen in the right cell)in a new tab


The user will fill in the form with relevant data.

An example of a form. The forms can be set by different tools including; CRM forms, WordPress forms, 3rd party tools for surveys, etc.

The form needs to send an email to the internet user with confirmation that the submission of the request has been successfully sent.(many of the form tools offer that functionality out of the box).

The form functionality will record the request and the SecuTix Operator should be informed.

The SecuTix operator will open the SecuTix backoffice and find the contact in the Contacts CRM based on the information provided.

The Operator will then set the criteria for "Stop renewal season ticket" to "yes".

Clink Click on the image below to see the processthe user flow on how to set the criteria.

With this action, the contact will not be part of the group that will be renewed with the trigger of the renewal batch.

in case of refund the ...

What if the season ticket holder requests a refund and cancelation, what actions in the backoffice immediately disable the validity of the season ticket?


Ticketshop landing page
(Check the footer link)

Managed by SecuTix client with
Secutix Customer Success agent




Click on the link opens a form (as seen in the right cell)

Actions  

in a new tab 


Actions (TO DOs)  

The product team proposes that the Customer Success agents manage the change in the following way; 

  1. InformGerman Inform all German customers about the law requirements, timeline, and the impact of the required change change.
  2. The form: Customers should choose a preferable way of publishing the form provider tool that provides the following functionality (Wordpress forms, etc)Include the “Verträge hier kündigen”
  3. The Footer Link: Include the “Verträge hier kündigen” link to her ticketshop footer 

Example of the form

...

2. The form

The client needs to use the type of form that enables the following functionality; 

  1. Customization of the fields
    2. in the web form available for public access
  2. (type of data entered, e.g. text input, checkboxes, ...)
  3. Provides the ability to not make fields mandatory to fill 
  4. Provides the ability to (re)name the submissions button to  “Jetzt kündigen” (Google form does not allow that by default, however, it can be achieved with additional tools).
  5. Automatically sends the email to “submitter” as a confirmation that the termination request was received
  6. Collects the submitted requests 

Example of the form

We used this Google form for demonstration purposes only! Please make sure that clients choose forms that provide full flexibility of customization. 


Current SecuTix functionality does not yet provide a dedicated label to enable "Verträge hier kündigen" in the footer of the ticket shop. Therefore we recommend using one of the existing labels, that is potentially not used by the client and rename it to "Verträge hier kündigen".
This is not a sustainable way of achieving the goal but is necessary to comply with the law by the date 1st of July 2022. The product team will provide a dedicated label in one of the Weisshorn V3 releases delivered between Avg - Nov 2022. 

How to rename existing labels to "Verträge hier kündigen"? 

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How to link the newly renamed label to the selected URL address?