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By the way, I think I should also ask/suggest a clarification. It’s not that the MailChimp automation triggers an autoresponder, right? The integration is to place the customer into a specific list. There must be an autoresponder configured in MailChimp that does something with that action, like “send to users one hour after they appear in list”, or am I missing something obvious?
I have one big list in MailChimp with lots of GROUPS. Is it possible to have the autoresponder add to a specific group in a list? For example my list is “My Customers” but I have “Product A”, “Product B”, “Newsletter”, “Product Updates” etc. I want to add purchasers of Product A to group “Product A” and trigger an autoresponder to invite them to sign up for the Newsletter, and select whether they want to hear about Product Updates.
Down the road my intent is to send product specific emails including info about updates if they’ve asked.
I thought I posted the log for the above – perhaps you’ve deleted it. In any case, I figured out that Avishai is customer number 1. So it’s not alphabetical, it’s the first entry in the wp_wp_eStore_sales_tbl table that was selected.
Thanks, that’s a great help! I don’t have to let the customers do it, I can do it for them. I think there are some problems, however. I first used the extra-shortcuts code with the “wp_eStore_download_link_sender” shortcode. What it sent didn’t stamp the files. I then deactivated, and deleted the shortcodes plugin since mine was a little older and installed the new shortcode plugin v4.6.2. I re-ran the same operation for the same email address, mine.
I noticed in the PDF Stamper there were links for each of the products – but the customer name and email were not listed. Checking out the downloaded files, I notice that they were not stamped.
I’m not sure whether the links I got were from the first (older plug-in) or the newer. I went into PDF Stamper, manage files, deleted each of the ones without name and email and tried again.
This time I saw no new files in the PDF stamper, and the links I received were for a completely different user/email. Coincidentally it appeared to be the alphabetically first customer (Avishai something or other).
It may be my deletions confused it… so I tried again with another of my aliases. It sent the correct links, but the wrong stamps (again Avishai’s). Moreover, Avishai did not purchase any of the products that were sent as links. I’ll turn on debug and post the log.
I also noticed that the email doesn’t include the “product specific instructions” – but I think that’s ok. Is there a way I can add text above what is sent, like
“Here are all of your purchases. Please download these links within 48 hours or they will expire.”
And the other thing I’d need to do is to be able to resend all those links to a different address (e.g. if they made a typo in their address). I’ve seen horrible delivery problems with hotmail, for example (or perhaps it’s horrible user problems with them not understanding to also check the “Junk” folder!)
Perhaps that is matter of changing the customer information in the Manage Customers?
It’s not *one* document, but several from a bundle which also includes additional instructions.
I’ve tried using a private “Squeeze” form for this (e.g.on a private page), but that doesn’t package everything such as the additional instructions. The title on the mail sent always reads “Free Download Link”.
I’m looking for a solution that will easily regenerate and send the whole package. Ideas?
There is a gotcha in the Admin function, two actually. The main one is that it doesn’t allow you to enter the name and email address that are used by the PDF Stamper – so using the Admin function will generate “unstamped” documents (they are stamped, but with no content).
Secondly, the Admin function only generates the encrypted links, not the full content of the email which would be sent.
IMHO It would be ideal to be able to have the “Admin function” linked to the Customer record via a “resend” or “generate”. Once in a while I need to resend the data to a different email address since many people have trouble finding content that goes in their Junk/Spam folder.
While “Active” makes sense, Hidden doesn’t because you can’t use the shortcodes like:
[wp_eStore_all_products_stylish:end] and except for you own use, you’d never show the hidden products.
[wp_eStore_all_products_stylish:end], for example, doesn’t care that the item is not hidden. I have a similar problem in that I have items that are not separately sellable but are included in bundles. I ended up creating a “Show in Catalog” category, but there isn’t a way to combine two categories e.g. “Show in Catalog” + “Downloadable Video”. It would, IMHO, be better if there were a separate property on the product called “don’t show”. However that still doesn’t solve the problem disabling item(s) from displaying EXCEPT by using the category type list:
[wp_eStore_category_products_fancy id=3 style=3]
It appears the behavior is part of the store. If I use a shortcode squeeze box, it does the same thing when I enter an invalid email address. In my case it comes back with a completely empty page which is typical if there is an uncaught PHP error somewhere.
It seems there is no javascript or what-have-you to check the email address at submit time.
I too will be moving to a new server. In fact I just did and will be doing so again but I’m not yet using PDF Stamper.
So my question is: can I bring up PDF stamper on the new site using a temporary domain name, then switch to my permanent domain name? Will it be as simple as deactivating and reactivating?
Thanks so much for helping me out.
To be clear… are these instructions obsolete? Can’t you set the “Shipping + Tax” options all to “zero” (and it would make more sense if these all defaulted to zero for anything that has digital content.
Nevermind. I tried this and PayPal still asked me at checkout what kind of shipping I need… I guess I need to dig deeper.
I used to do this with my old pre-Wordpress site using JavaScript that checks the date and then chooses to include the HTML needed for purchase. If you feel adventurous, you could write a simple script in PHP that activates and deactivates.
Perhaps a less code-intensive way is to use the “inventory” option and set the current inventory for each product to zero. The item will then be marked “SOLD OUT”
