WP Affiliate – Aweber Autoresponder First Name Not Showing Up

[masmoola]

Hi, I have the Aweber autoresponder all set up working for the WP Affiliate program and when I tested the affiliate sign up, the first name did not show up when the email was added to my Aweber list.

How can I get the affiliate’s first name to show up so that I can personalize the emails going out?

I have the same set up for the emember plugin, but I did not test that one yet. Should the first name show up for new members if the Aweber is set up for that plugin?

Thank you

[admin]

Yes, the first name and last name should show up in AWeber, give you filled in those fields when you signing up.

What version of the affiliate plugin are you using?

Have you made any custom field requirement changes in this AWeber list from your AWeber account?

[masmoola]

I loaded up the latest version of all three programs the other day and I have all of them set up, estore, emember, wp affiliate, but …

I did do a test set up by creating a member account from the dashboard and not by going through the payment process, and then I created the affiliate account afterwards by registering from the normal process of filling out the affiliate sign up page.

The member account is set up to auto sign up the members on a different Aweber list upon registration, and that email came through with the name “WordPress” as the first name in the personalized section. Both of the emails received from the membership Aweber sign up said “Hi WordPress, …” so I know that part will probably work.

Now, I have the affiliate sign up and log in page protected inside of the membership as a protected page, because I don’t want anyone to be able to sign up as an affiliate until they become a member. Once they log in to their member account, the affiliate sign up page is visible.

I logged into the member account and then registered as an affiliate from there, and the two emails came in from Aweber, but the first name did not show up at all, and I filled out the affiliate form with the first name in the field when I registered.

Where does the program pull the name from in order to place it in the Aweber name field?

[admin]

Both the eMember and the affiliate plugin have “First Name” field in the registration form. It takes the first name from that field.

From your explanation it seems like you are using the email parser method to do AWeber integration? Is that correct? Please note that using the API method is better. You should delete any old email parser you may have created in your AWeber account for this so it doesn’t interfere. Please confirm which integration option you are using.

FYI – It looks like you want your members to have an affiliate account. There is a feature for this in eMember plugin that lets you automatically affiliate account for a member when he/she signs up in eMember. Go to eMember settings and check the “Automatically Create Affiliate Account” if you want it.

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