Installation and updates.

Server preparation, installation, and keeping Reward Loyalty up to date.

Requirements

Runtime, database, web server, and production requirements for Reward Loyalty.

Prepare PHP, a production database, secure files, scheduled work, and updates in a hosting control panel.

Keep your main website separate, choose where Reward Loyalty lives, and connect the domains needed for email and staging.

Configure authenticated transactional email for OTP and operational delivery.

Install Reward Loyalty on a prepared domain and prove the first operating path.

Prove sign-in, checkout, uploads, scheduled work, backups, health checks, and updates before launch.

Three ways to update Reward Loyalty: dashboard updates, install from package, and manual file replacement.

Apply updates from a downloaded zip file using the admin dashboard.

Update by uploading files via FTP or SFTP. The fallback method for shared hosting and environments without exec().

How to reinstall the application while preserving data.