Newsletter-Only Subscriptions for v1.3x

[tydallen]

RE: Subscription Manger

I am honestly try to figure out if this is a good way to manage customers/prospects. So far it has been very quirky and I am unable to have a new prospect sign up to receive an HTML Newsletter. There is also no way to add notes about someone, contact info. etc unless they become a customer. Please let me know what the general consensus is about this add-on and if I am just better off using Outlook Express or something else.

It would also be nice if propspects were able to click on exactly what products they are interested in and notate if they are retail or wholesale customers please please please let me know the answers to these questions. Thanks
Tyler

if I need to download the latest version how can I do that without loosing the contacts already in the version that I have...

[paul3648]

RE: Subscription Manger

Please let me know what the general consensus is about this add-on and if I am just better off using Outlook Express or something else.

It would also be nice if propspects were able to click on exactly what products they are interested in and notate if they are retail or wholesale customers please please please let me know the answers to these questions. Thanks
Tyler

You're giving too many tasks for this module. If prospective customers want more information about your products they will just use your contact form.

This module does a good job of collecting email addresses for your newsletter. I don't use the Zencart built-in newsletter because it overwhelms my server, but I use this module to collect my subscriber info and then import that into DADA mail, which allows me to limit the number of newsletters per hour.

[tydallen]

Ok is there no way to adjust a setting in zen cart as to slow down the release of emails so it will work.....

It stinks that no other customer info. is saved or prompted for when using just then subscription manager....

[tydallen]

It sounds to me like SM is just not a good product to maintain a database and do email marketing. What are some suggestions?

[paul3648]

Ok is there no way to adjust a setting in zen cart as to slow down the release of emails so it will work.....

It stinks that no other customer info. is saved or prompted for when using just then subscription manager....

You are allowed to modify it to ask for more information - open source and all that...

[sunflowertami]

I use to export the email addresses of the newsletter and send my newsletter out via group mail but when my subscription went up to 900+, it became too tedious to do it this way.

Now I just use the newsletter to let my customers know that the newsletter is ready to download and I provide a link to a page on my store. This works great! I get the traffic I need and customers are able to visit my store and see what is new as well as download the newsletter for themselves.

RE: Subscription Manger

I am honestly try to figure out if this is a good way to manage customers/prospects. So far it has been very quirky and I am unable to have a new prospect sign up to receive an HTML Newsletter. There is also no way to add notes about someone, contact info. etc unless they become a customer. Please let me know what the general consensus is about this add-on and if I am just better off using Outlook Express or something else.

It would also be nice if propspects were able to click on exactly what products they are interested in and notate if they are retail or wholesale customers please please please let me know the answers to these questions. Thanks
Tyler

if I need to download the latest version how can I do that without loosing the contacts already in the version that I have...

[senortim]

Suddenly, this sidebox isn't working.

The only change I made recently was adding define pages, but I looked through all those files and don't see any problems.

The errors I'm seeing look like the defines aren't working. So, for example, the sidebox header says "BOX_HEADING_SUBSCRIBE".

It has been a dog's age since I installed this; did my config's get overwritten some how?

Any thoughts? Help please!
Tim

[nagelkruid]

Suddenly, this sidebox isn't working.

The errors I'm seeing look like the defines aren't working. So, for example, the sidebox header says "BOX_HEADING_SUBSCRIBE".
Tim

Hello Tim,
did you check the includes/language/english (or perhaps your_language) directory?
you should have subscribe.php in there with the define in it for this header

Jeroen

[jasmel]

Had a hard time finding this thread. Maybe we can change the title to "Newsletter Subscribe" since this mod replaced the previous one.

The question I have is how do I change the admin page to display the correct number of subscribers?

Newsletter subscribers: 1,234 (this number no longer increases)

I think this has something to do with the new db update for the newsletter only subscribers.

Thanks!

[dgarrett20]

I have ZenCart 1.3.8 and installed Newletter Subscribe v 2.1.1.

Everything is working fine, but I had previously added a discount to newsletter subscribers [Newsletter Discount Mod] http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=986

If they checked the newsletter box when signing up they get 5% off of their orders.

So testing this new subscribe without an account mod, I signed up for the newsletter. I confirmed it in my email and then went to signup and checkout and the discount doesn't work.

In the admin section it changed me from Newsletter-Only Subscriber to Customer and I am still on the newsletter, but not able to get the discount. If I goto the account and check the box for the newsletter I get the following error:

1062 Duplicate entry 'davidgarrettjr######################' for key 2
in:
[INSERT INTO zen_subscribers (customers_id, email_address, email_format) VALUES ('314', 'davidgarrettjr######################', 'TEXT')]

However, if I sign up after being subscribed to the newsletter only and I check the box at the bottom then everything is fine.

Question is: Is there a way to let a newsletter subscriber sign up for an account to where the box is already checked and/or it incorporates the discount?