Subscribe by email to 1ShoppingCart autoresponders?

[sawyerjw]

I’ve seen the posts regarding support for 1ShoppingCart and understand that there is no support planned for it at the moment. Since WP eStore supports AWeber and AWeber is essentially a subscribe-by-email type of system, why can’t the same technique be used for 1ShoppingCart and others that support subscribing by email? I have at least one client who would like to have her WP eStore buyers subscribed to her 1SC account and I would prefer not to hack the plugin if I can avoid it.

Thanks,

John

[amin007]

Its because every autoresponder has different ways of subscribing to it’s list from a 3rd party solution. The mailchimp API is not the same as the GerResponse or AWeber API. You can’t just send the email address somewhere and expect that to be signed up to your list.

If 1ShoppingCart uses the same technique that AWeber uses then yes you can do what you suggested so my question to you is the following:

Does 1ShoppingCart use the same list signup technique as AWeber?

[sawyerjw]

If I send a blank email to a 1ShoppingCart autoresponder like the following:

[mailinglistID]@autocontactor.com

I get back a return email with a confirmation link in it. If my name is in my email address, (e.g. John Sawyer <info@chonresources.com> )it picks that up, too. The return email is addressed “Dear John”.

Similarly, if I send a blank email to an AWeber list like the following:

[mailinglistID]@aweber.com

I get a similar return email requesting confirmation. I realize AWeber has the ability to pull additional information from submitted emails if a template is created in AWeber, but all that’s needed is a blank email with a valid return email address in the format cited above.

So, in that regard, the signup techniques are the same.

[amin007]

AWeber uses an email parser to parse the name and email address of the user from the email. You can find more details of the email parser here:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/how-to-integrate-wp-estore-with-aweber-615

Is there any such email parser needed for 1ShoppingCart or you just send a blank email to the list email and that is all? Can you please point me to a 1ShoppingCart list signup documentation?

[sawyerjw]

Here’s what I’ve been able to find:

http://www.mcssl.com/User_Guide/V2_User_Guide/user_guide.htm

There isn’t much there of a technical nature. All I know is that I can send a blank email to a 1SC autoresponder and it will subscribe me as long as that option is turned on on the autoresponder in 1SC. I believe there’s a 1SC WP plugin which could be reverse-engineered, but really, it doesn’t appear to be any more complicated than sending an email with standard headers.

I know AWeber has the ability to set up a specific parser, however, their default parser seems to work just fine. Again, I can send a blank email to a list on which I haven’t set up a specific parser and it works fine.

[amin007]

Okay lets do the following first. Open the “eStore_includes4.php” file and look inside the “eStore_send_aweber_mail” function. This is the function that gets called if you were using AWeber and the customer name and email address is available here.

All you need to do is modify the content of this function so it sends the email to your 1SC list. Test it out and share the code that you did. I will then be able to look at what you did to signup a customer to the 1SC list with their name and email address and add in a formal settings option in WP eStore plugin for 1SC autoresponder signup.

[sawyerjw]

Great, thanks, Amin. I’ll give that a shot and let you know how it works out.

[sawyerjw]

Hi, Amin,

It worked. All I changed was the first two lines of the function:

$subject = "1ShoppingCart Automatic Sign up email";

$body    = "nnThis is an automatic email that is sent to 1ShoppingCart for member signup purposen".

The rest of the function worked without modification.

Thanks,

John

[amin007]

Thats good. Did it subscribe just with the name of the customer or only the email?

[sawyerjw]

My apologies for the delay in responding. I’ve been doing some further testing with the client to verify her original report. As it turns out, the simple modification to the AWeber routine did not work contrary to what she had originally reported. We’ve been back and forth with 1SC support and have so far not gotten anything helpful.

For now, she has implemented an alternative solution which is to include an opt-in form on her thank-you page with an incentive to register for future updates, etc.

I’ll get back to you if I can ever get 1SC to share some documentation.

Thanks,

John

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