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[Douglas-John Ramm]

ok i'll keep reading and looking and playing with it
Thanks
Doug

[MailBeez]

Dan Cole, on 19 January 2012, 04:03, said:

Hummm....I don't think any of those suggestions are going to work for me....I'm in a real niche market and most of our customers are members of the same clubs, message boards, travel in the same circles etc...that's not to say that they wouldn't know a few people that aren't already customers but I'm sure they'll also know many who already are....I think the only way this is going to work for me is if there was some kind of check against our database before the coupon is validated....I don't know anything about CCGV at this point but perhaps we can build in some sort of check for that...I'm going to install CCGV anyway so I'll give that some further thought when I do so...thanks for responding....dan

PS: An after thought, would it be possible to build a check into the share page?

Hi dan,

a check like this must be done in the CCGV code - it checks already if the number of usages is below the configured number.
Could be a simple check if the customer trying to use it, already has placed an order before.

cord

[MailBeez]

hi dan,

the idea above should actually work, but important is to check if the coupon was sent by referralhoney - otherwise all coupons would only work for existing customers. ReferralHoney does track the share coupons, so with a simple query a check would be possible.

The feedback in case a existing customer tries to use the coupon could be the same as the number of redemption for this share coupon has been reached - so the customer would not think of creating a new account. also you could add some tracking to see how often that situations appears.

cord

[Dan Cole]

MailBeez, on 19 January 2012, 19:36, said:

hi dan,

the idea above should actually work, but important is to check if the coupon was sent by referralhoney - otherwise all coupons would only work for existing customers. ReferralHoney does track the share coupons, so with a simple query a check would be possible.

The feedback in case a existing customer tries to use the coupon could be the same as the number of redemption for this share coupon has been reached - so the customer would not think of creating a new account. also you could add some tracking to see how often that situations appears.

cord

Thanks Cord...that is good to know...I like the idea so I'll keep moving in this direction.

Dan

[MailBeez]

hi dan,

will be off next week, but back end of january. I think I will make this adoption of CCGV as part of the ReferralHoney Package - should be only one line of code to add (in general I try to avoid as much as possible to modify the existing store-files)

cord

[Dan Cole]

MailBeez, on 20 January 2012, 08:08, said:

hi dan,

will be off next week, but back end of january. I think I will make this adoption of CCGV as part of the ReferralHoney Package - should be only one line of code to add (in general I try to avoid as much as possible to modify the existing store-files)

cord

Awesome....I guess that gives me a week to get the CCGV module up and running....

Dan

[outdoorgeek]

Please, no laughing....

I have installed MailBeez, done the basic configuration but for the love of Mike, cannot find out how to start creating an email!

Yes I did read "Getting Started" but cannot find any link or button within MailBeez dashboard to get going.

Please point me in the right direction.

Thx

[Dan Cole]

outdoorgeek, on 14 February 2012, 08:10, said:

I have installed MailBeez, done the basic configuration but for the love of Mike, cannot find out how to start creating an email!

Please point me in the right direction.

George....I'm guessing you didn't see these directions...

Step 4: Customize your Emails

Each MailBeez module comes with a set of template files which are used to generate the email in both HTML and TXT formats.
You can customize these template to your needs by modifying these files:
(shop-root)/mailhive/(module)/email/subject.tpl
(shop-root)/mailhive/(module)/email/body_html.tpl (html version)
(shop-root)/mailhive/(module)/email/body_txt.tpl (txt version)
It should be self explanatory, since it is simple editing of html code.
Remember that the content of these template files are merged into the Mail Template file which is common for all modules (if not configured differently) :
(shop-root)/mailhive/common/templates/email_html.tpl (html version)
(shop-root)/mailhive/common/templates/email_txt.tpl (txt version)
You can check your changes by using the “View Mail” and “Send Test Email” functionality as described in Step 2.

Hope that helps but if not just post back and I see if I can help out.

I love Mailbeez....

Dan

[outdoorgeek]

Hi Dan and sorry for the delayed response.

Great, I understand then how to customize an email and view it, but I still don't know how to "open"/create a new email to get started.

[Dan Cole]

outdoorgeek, on 21 February 2012, 10:53, said:

Hi Dan and sorry for the delayed response.

Great, I understand then how to customize an email and view it, but I still don't know how to "open"/create a new email to get started.

I'm not sure I understand what you want to do George....Mailbeez sends out emails using modules that query your database, selecting records that meet the criteria specified by the module and generates the emails based on the templates that you can edit as noted above. Are you looking to have a new module defined or do you simply want to change one of the emails that is generated by an existing module? Cord has developed several modules that you can use and you'll find a list of what is available on his website. If you're looking for something beyond those modules you'll need to request a quote from Cord or see if its on his roadmap. Developing a new module is not a simple task.

What exactly did you have in mind?

Dan

[outdoorgeek]

Thanks Dan. I want to open a template to edit/customize the text and then email it to my customers. I thought that within Mailbeez "dashboard" there will be a shortcut/link to open a template, edit it and then send it but is seems as if I am wrong.

What I sort of understand what you said above is that I have to open (don't know how within Mailbeez) this path (shop-root)/mailhive/(module)/email/body_html.tpl (html version), then edit and then email.

So my question is, how do I open the html template(s) within Mailbeez.

[Dan Cole]

outdoorgeek, on 22 February 2012, 09:47, said:

Thanks Dan. I want to open a template to edit/customize the text and then email it to my customers. I thought that within Mailbeez "dashboard" there will be a shortcut/link to open a template, edit it and then send it but is seems as if I am wrong.

What I sort of understand what you said above is that I have to open (don't know how within Mailbeez) this path (shop-root)/mailhive/(module)/email/body_html.tpl (html version), then edit and then email.

So my question is, how do I open the html template(s) within Mailbeez.

You don't need to do it within Mailbeez. You can just edit it using your FTP program in the same way as you would edit any file on the server....or you could download it....edit it on your desktop using notepad or something of that nature and then upload it when you're done.

On the otherhand I think Cord has a template module for editing the emails online but it might be a bit of an overkill for what you're doing but it's an option as well.

Dan

[outdoorgeek]

Ok, that solves my problem. I was looking for a button/link to open the email within Mailbeez. I'll use Filezilla and give it a try. Thx a mil.
G

[Trentide]

Hey Everyone, this looks like a pretty cool contribution, if only I can get it to work. I uploaded the files/folders and changed the admin/includes/boxes/tools.php file. However, when I click on the admin/tools/mailbeez link, I just get a white, blank page. Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks so much! I can't wait to start using this!

Jason

[MailBeez]

hi Jason,

hard to say - please check your php error log if you get any hints there.

is your mailhive/common/template_c directory writable?

[Trentide]

Thanks for responding so quickly. In my php log I get this:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare mh_price() (previously declared in /home4/subcitiz/public_html/mailhive/common/functions/price.php:26) in /home4/subcitiz/public_html/mailhive/common/functions/function_plugins/price.php on line 35

Can this be the problem?

Jason

[Dan Cole]

Trentide, on 24 February 2012, 21:59, said:

Thanks for responding so quickly. In my php log I get this:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare mh_price() (previously declared in /home4/subcitiz/public_html/mailhive/common/functions/price.php:26) in /home4/subcitiz/public_html/mailhive/common/functions/function_plugins/price.php on line 35

Can this be the problem?

Jason

@Trentide

Seems like it could be Jason....I don't have a price.php file in the function_plugins directory....could you have copied price.php to that directory by mistake?

Dan

Edited by Dan Cole, 25 February 2012, 00:31.

[MailBeez]

hi jason,

please delete the file price.php from function_plugins

when you upgraded mailbeez that file was left there

cord

[Trentide]

MailBeez, on 25 February 2012, 18:24, said:

hi jason,

please delete the file price.php from function_plugins

when you upgraded mailbeez that file was left there

cord

Thanks for the response Cord. I didn't actually upgrade. I was installing it for the first time. But, I was reading more. I also have Security Pro 2.0 installed. Could this be the problem? Will it continue to be a problem if I also want to buy one of the add-ons like the email throttle application?

[MailBeez]

well the file mailhive/common/functions/function_plugins/price.php is not part of the MailBeez V2.5 installation pack.

If you remove that, everything should be fine.

If Security Pro 2.0 should make issues with premium modules (btw. check out MailBeez ReferralHoney http://www.mailbeez.com/download/mailbeez-referral-honey/) , I will fix it

cord