andyr
07-11-2007, 08:20 AM
I decided to try and set up a subscription mail or newsletter site. This would be used by an organisation with a service such as realty who wished to contact all people on their lists.
I downloaded PoMMo from http://pommo.org/Features this is free and I set it up on my hosting with an mysql database. The setup went without a hitch and was relatively easy with good setup information. I uploaded the scripts into a subdirectory under http://76278.mobi (http://76278.mobi/)
I then made an index.php main page (could be index.htm or .html depends how you do this) on my site. I also created an index2.php.
Next stop was Paypal with their merchant tools. You can create buttons for several types of payment options, I chose subscription payment. You can choose payment amounts, intervals between payments etc. You simply paste the button code produced into your main page. The button when pressed takes you onto the paypal site for processing. As this is a demo site currently I also copied the image for the free trial and href linked it to index2.php.
Leaving paypal after you login and 'pay' or by using my free trial button, takes you to index2.php where the subscription to my mass mailing site occurs. This is an embedded form supplied by pommo and you can easily design your form to collect what information fields you require. Pommo then provides you with code to paste into your (index2.php) page.
When you subscribe, you will get an automatic email providing a link which you click. I then get an email showing you as a subscriber. This can all be set up in the admin section of pommo.
I can then set you up in a group if I wish and target any information I wish to send you (price range etc.). The program uses sendmail and if you have an email account on your phone you will get my mailings direct.
The site was fairly quick to set up taking me less than half a day, it can obviously be improved upon with time.
If you have a good service to sell and a customer base, (you can import subscription lists as .csv and also omit the email approval method), this could be a useful method of advertising yourself. Emails you send out could be tailored to include other advertising as well.
Hope that this is useful. I realise that it could be used for all sorts of transactions. I recommend that email confirmation is used as this avoids spamming.
regards, andyr
I downloaded PoMMo from http://pommo.org/Features this is free and I set it up on my hosting with an mysql database. The setup went without a hitch and was relatively easy with good setup information. I uploaded the scripts into a subdirectory under http://76278.mobi (http://76278.mobi/)
I then made an index.php main page (could be index.htm or .html depends how you do this) on my site. I also created an index2.php.
Next stop was Paypal with their merchant tools. You can create buttons for several types of payment options, I chose subscription payment. You can choose payment amounts, intervals between payments etc. You simply paste the button code produced into your main page. The button when pressed takes you onto the paypal site for processing. As this is a demo site currently I also copied the image for the free trial and href linked it to index2.php.
Leaving paypal after you login and 'pay' or by using my free trial button, takes you to index2.php where the subscription to my mass mailing site occurs. This is an embedded form supplied by pommo and you can easily design your form to collect what information fields you require. Pommo then provides you with code to paste into your (index2.php) page.
When you subscribe, you will get an automatic email providing a link which you click. I then get an email showing you as a subscriber. This can all be set up in the admin section of pommo.
I can then set you up in a group if I wish and target any information I wish to send you (price range etc.). The program uses sendmail and if you have an email account on your phone you will get my mailings direct.
The site was fairly quick to set up taking me less than half a day, it can obviously be improved upon with time.
If you have a good service to sell and a customer base, (you can import subscription lists as .csv and also omit the email approval method), this could be a useful method of advertising yourself. Emails you send out could be tailored to include other advertising as well.
Hope that this is useful. I realise that it could be used for all sorts of transactions. I recommend that email confirmation is used as this avoids spamming.
regards, andyr