Newsletter-Only Subscriptions for v1.3x

[FruitFly]

They are not merged as far as I can see. I checked all the accounts......

There should be an option to select "All Newsletter + all nieuwsbrief-lezer"....... I think I'm not the only one, maybe you can check if this is so on your shops ?

I think maybe you're still misunderstanding what each group is.

All Newsletter subscribers is all customers *who have chosen to subscribe* (not all customers!) AND all newsletter only (nieuwsbrief-lezer) addresses.

When you say you checked all accounts, I'm not sure you checked the place I mean. You can't look at the Subscription Manager for this info, because it will just show as C for customer (which again, does NOT mean subscriber)

Go into the profile for each customer (Customers -> Customers -> Edit) , and at the bottom of the profile under the Options heading and look at the Newsletter dropdown menu. If *every single* customer is set to Subscribed (I find it hard to believe that is the case because I've never seen every customer choose to subscribe in any site I've ever run. Many don't want to.) -- then I do not know what the problem is. And I apologize for sounding so sure I'm right.

But -- I'm betting you'll see that a few of your customers are set to Unsubscribed.

If you want to send a newsletter or email to all customers (even those who are set to UNSUBSCRIBED) and all newsletter subscribers, you'll have to do it in multiple parts -- one to All Customers and one to each newsletter only subscriber.
Just know that if you have a customer who has chosen NOT to subscribe, and you send them a newsletter, you may face angering a customer, or losing a customer.

If you want to send a newsletter or email to all the people (whether customer or subscriber only) who HAVE subscribed the All Newsletter Subscribers will cover it.

[mvveelen]

Not sure if I understand you correct, but I only want to send all customers and nieuwsbrief-lezers who are subscribed. Not the ones that don't want to receive a newsletter.

So I can select all newsletter subscribers (easy), but how can I send all the nieuwsbrief-lezers with just one "click" ? They are all listed seperately, but not as a group ?

[FruitFly]

Not sure if I understand you correct, but I only want to send all customers and nieuwsbrief-lezers who are subscribed. Not the ones that don't want to receive a newsletter.

So I can select all newsletter subscribers (easy), but how can I send all the nieuwsbrief-lezers with just one "click" ? They are all listed seperately, but not as a group ?

The nieuwsbrief-lezers are already included in All Newsletter Subscribers -- that's what that group is. It's all the people (both customers who chose to subscribe and the newsletter only people) that want to get the newsletter.

Everyone that you can send mail to is listed separately *in addition* to being part of the different groups, I'm guessing in case you wanted to send only to one person. The nieuwsbrief-lezers are noted as such in that list only because you don't have their name on file to display, where the customers have given you that information. The only thing you know about nieuwsbrief-lezers is their email addresses.

[FruitFly]

So I can select all newsletter subscribers (easy), but how can I send all the nieuwsbrief-lezers with just one "click" ? They are all listed seperately, but not as a group ?

Sorry didn't quite catch this when I first answered you (I wasn't fully awake).

On my sites, when I go to either Send Email or Newsletter and Product Notifications Manager to send a message, I see a group called Newsletter-only Subscribers.

Why that's not in your list I'm not sure. My only guess is that maybe you're running an older version of Newsletter-only (I only have the latest release installed, so I can't say if this is something missing from older versions.)

[dharma]

Hello!

My shop opens in about 3 weeks. I am running ZC 1.3.7 and installed the Nov 14 2006 v1.3.6 2.0.6 version on a test site and it works fine. My question is should I wait for the new release? or roll with the older version?

[Ryk]

If it's working why wait? I'd almost put money on the next release not being available for a long time if you wait, but if you go ahead, it will be out the next day! It's the Zen Cart way!

[TosumaBen]

Okay, I've tested it out, and it works... mostly. There seems to be some sort of issue with the unsubscribe page. When the customer unsubscribes, they ARE removed from the database, but instead of going to a page to verify that they have unsubscribed, I got this error:

1065 Query was empty
in:
[]

I have fixed this error. Fixed file attached. Replace /includes/modules/pages/unsubscribe/header_php.php with it.
I havn't tried all test cases so ymmv.
This is a 2.07 error so don't use this file if you're using 2.06.

[Chuckl]

TosumaBen, I got a similar error recently on the unsubscribe page, on 2.06 I believe, but traced it to the query factory queries stored in the database having soft end of line characters in some of the database strings. Removed these and all was well. Don't know it is related.

Rgds,

[TosumaBen]

TosumaBen, I got a similar error recently on the unsubscribe page, on 2.06 I believe, but traced it to the query factory queries stored in the database having soft end of line characters in some of the database strings. Removed these and all was well. Don't know it is related.

This would be a different error as it resulted from a curly brace that moved in the update from 2.06 to 2.07.

[MaryK]

This is just what I was looking for. The installation seemed to be going well until I tried to install the box in the custom header:

Warning: main(includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_subscribe_header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.../includes/modules/CUSTOM_TEMPLATE/subscribe_header.php on line 20

executing:
<?php
// BEGIN newsletter_subscribe mod 1/1
if(defined('NEWSONLY_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED') &&
(NEWSONLY_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED=='true') &&
(NEWSONLY_SUBSCRIPTION_HEADER=='true')) {
include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_SUBSCRIBE_HEADER));
}
// END newsletter_subscribe mod 1/1
?>

It is going to templalte_default rather than the CUSTOM_TEMPLATE, I think.
Can you advise?

Thanks!
Mary