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I am currently running a site with eMember with subscriptions being handled by PayPal recurring payments. I would like to sell 3 month subscriptions to the site through Groupon. I am trying to figure out how that would be able to work using this plugin. Thoughts? Plans to enable Groupon integration?
Would this be able to be handled somehow with eStore instead?
I really appreciate your response and help here.
Thanks
*** Re-edited after having my first cup of coffee… ***
It would seem, from the FAQ, there is no immediate interaction between your site and the Groupon customer. With that said, and without having used it myself, here is one possible scenario that might play out…
You enter into a contract with the folks at Groupon to offer a coupon that allows purchasers to buy a $30 item for $1. You are selling this coupon for $5 to Groupon customers if Groupon brings in a minimum of 500 coupon orders within 24 hours. Groupon does its thing and collects its monies, in bulk from its members. Groupon sends you the money and a request for 800 coupons…
I don’t think you would get customer information, just a request for an anonymous number of coupons; Groupon’s FAQ clearly promises its members that Groupons are transferable…
So you then generate 800 coupons for a particular product ID, that allows the purchase of that product for only $1.
Of course, this is only a half-baked idea, based on the Groupon FAQ.
Of course, there is the security aspect… In the above example, what happens if a Groupon customer passes out that $1 coupon to their friends? The result is that some poor soul becomes the 801st purchaser!
So, what you do is create 16 coupon “pools” of 60 uses each. That gives you 960 redeemable coupons, 800 plus 160 (20% more) for shrinkage. Because the coupons are broken into 16 pools, the damage from coupon passing is limited to 20% of each pool.
hmmm thanks for your thoughtful information. I will have to wrap my head around this and think it through…
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