John Geary
07-05-2009, 03:30 AM
Theo, I have been pulling my hair out trying to integrate ARP in the Package autoresponder integration. I saw your thread in the Feature Request board but it was getting several days old so I thought this board might be a better place for an new thread.
When I read your comments about setting up a new autoresponder in the Settings tab, I thought it looked promising. But it seems that using the "subscribe by email" feature of ARPlus, is too limiting, because it only allows for the 10 pieces of information in the list p1...p10 There is probably going to be other information that you may want to import for each subscriber. I know I want other details.
But ARPlus can integrate with Delavo in Package mode. Here are the basic Parameters:
id=x (where x is the number assigned to the list to which you are importing;
email=#{Customer.email}
first_name=#{Customer.fname}
last_name=#{Customer.lname}
tracking_tag=PackageIDy (where y is the ID of the package you are integrating)
custom_affid=#{Customer.referer_id}
Email, first name and last name are self-explanatory.
'tracking_tag' is used by ARPlus for the owner to be able to assign a custom redirect upon subscription; it can be used for any of the following: subscription success; subscription failure; unsubscription success or unsubscription failure. What you need to do is test the package for which you are setting up integration so that you can copy and paste the package "Thank You" page url because that is the page to which you want your customer automatically redirected.
Then in ARPlus admin, you create a new 'tracking tag'. You can give it any name, but it seems to make sense to name it the package that you are integrating, especially if you plan to create lots of packages. During this set-up, you need to copy the url for your package "thank you" page into the "Custom subscribe success page URL" box in the new Tracking Tag set up.
Then, for each additional piece of information that you wish to import in the subscriber record for each subscriber, you simply need to create a new 'CUSTOM_tag' in ARPlus. To import the affiliate ID for example, if your package is going to be sold by affiliates, create a CUSTOM_tag (I called it "affid"). Then, for the Parameter, on the ARPlus side (the left side of the equation), you replace "_tag" with the name you assigned to your 'CUSTOM_tag', in this case, custom_affid; and for the Delavo side of the Parameter, you use the Delavo tag; in this case #{Customer.referer_id}. The complete Parameter would be: custom_affid=#{Customer.referer_id}
The only thing I haven't figured out is how to construct a custom_tag in ARPlus messages that will import the affiliates ID link to any new product/packages that you want to market to your subscriber list and give the commission to the affiliate who referred the various respective subscribers. But if you import the affiliate id as a custom_tag, that is, custom_affid, I think that in outgoing messages, for any package you are promoting that you want your affiliates to get paid for if one of their referred customers buys, your link would look like this:
http://yourdomain.com/Delavo_directory/package_code/{CUSTOM_affid}/order
where "Delavo_directory" is the name of the directory where you are hosting Delavo, and "package_code" is the code that Delavo assigns to the package you are promoting. I'm just not sure yet (I haven't tested) whether when you create the link in your message it will arrive as a "hot-link" in your prospect's In-box because of the insertion of the {Custom_field} code.
But I have tested the integration Parameters above, and they work fine. And it is really nice to have the redirect work automatically instead of sending your customer to the default static page that tells the subscriber that they have to click on their browser's back button to get to the page that you want them to go, your package "thank you" page.
And since you create a 'tracking_tag' for each package, all your first-time customers, or more importantly, your new prospects, if you are using a free report to build your list, can go into the same autoresponder, even if you are giving away several different free reports, just as long as you want all of your prospects to get the same series of messages. If you don't, you create different responders.
The more I struggle with this, the more I learn; and the more I learn, the more I realize just how powerful Delavo is.
Regards, John Geary
When I read your comments about setting up a new autoresponder in the Settings tab, I thought it looked promising. But it seems that using the "subscribe by email" feature of ARPlus, is too limiting, because it only allows for the 10 pieces of information in the list p1...p10 There is probably going to be other information that you may want to import for each subscriber. I know I want other details.
But ARPlus can integrate with Delavo in Package mode. Here are the basic Parameters:
id=x (where x is the number assigned to the list to which you are importing;
email=#{Customer.email}
first_name=#{Customer.fname}
last_name=#{Customer.lname}
tracking_tag=PackageIDy (where y is the ID of the package you are integrating)
custom_affid=#{Customer.referer_id}
Email, first name and last name are self-explanatory.
'tracking_tag' is used by ARPlus for the owner to be able to assign a custom redirect upon subscription; it can be used for any of the following: subscription success; subscription failure; unsubscription success or unsubscription failure. What you need to do is test the package for which you are setting up integration so that you can copy and paste the package "Thank You" page url because that is the page to which you want your customer automatically redirected.
Then in ARPlus admin, you create a new 'tracking tag'. You can give it any name, but it seems to make sense to name it the package that you are integrating, especially if you plan to create lots of packages. During this set-up, you need to copy the url for your package "thank you" page into the "Custom subscribe success page URL" box in the new Tracking Tag set up.
Then, for each additional piece of information that you wish to import in the subscriber record for each subscriber, you simply need to create a new 'CUSTOM_tag' in ARPlus. To import the affiliate ID for example, if your package is going to be sold by affiliates, create a CUSTOM_tag (I called it "affid"). Then, for the Parameter, on the ARPlus side (the left side of the equation), you replace "_tag" with the name you assigned to your 'CUSTOM_tag', in this case, custom_affid; and for the Delavo side of the Parameter, you use the Delavo tag; in this case #{Customer.referer_id}. The complete Parameter would be: custom_affid=#{Customer.referer_id}
The only thing I haven't figured out is how to construct a custom_tag in ARPlus messages that will import the affiliates ID link to any new product/packages that you want to market to your subscriber list and give the commission to the affiliate who referred the various respective subscribers. But if you import the affiliate id as a custom_tag, that is, custom_affid, I think that in outgoing messages, for any package you are promoting that you want your affiliates to get paid for if one of their referred customers buys, your link would look like this:
http://yourdomain.com/Delavo_directory/package_code/{CUSTOM_affid}/order
where "Delavo_directory" is the name of the directory where you are hosting Delavo, and "package_code" is the code that Delavo assigns to the package you are promoting. I'm just not sure yet (I haven't tested) whether when you create the link in your message it will arrive as a "hot-link" in your prospect's In-box because of the insertion of the {Custom_field} code.
But I have tested the integration Parameters above, and they work fine. And it is really nice to have the redirect work automatically instead of sending your customer to the default static page that tells the subscriber that they have to click on their browser's back button to get to the page that you want them to go, your package "thank you" page.
And since you create a 'tracking_tag' for each package, all your first-time customers, or more importantly, your new prospects, if you are using a free report to build your list, can go into the same autoresponder, even if you are giving away several different free reports, just as long as you want all of your prospects to get the same series of messages. If you don't, you create different responders.
The more I struggle with this, the more I learn; and the more I learn, the more I realize just how powerful Delavo is.
Regards, John Geary