I see the forum has been created for iContact integration, but I can find no mention of autoresponders in the manual or withing this forum.

Any information on iContact or autoresponders would be helpful.

Thanks

Hey Furlongs. I have been using IC for quite a while and there is no real "integration" per se. Everything is controlled in my IC interface - and I pull the signup box for my newsletter/mailing list into my site using the form workaround (i-frame). Once someone signs up, the redirect confirmation page replaces the signup box in the i-frame. Any autoresponders are configured at IC. I like the system and its been pretty successful for me.

Thanks Martinguy as ussual you are helpful. I'm thinking of signing up today.

I was hoping that every new customer would automatically go into the autoresponder system for a series of emails over a span of time.

It sounds like this can only be done automatically by the newsletter sign up. This makes it tough since there is no easy way to export customer information by date from version 7.

From what I can see you can download all customers or none.

Anyone got an example of doing this with an i-frame?

Hey my friend.
Go to my contact page and view the source to see the whole gorilla, but here is the snippet

You cannot put a form on an aspx page (at least here) because it essentially amounts to a "form within a form" and if you do it, you'll see that it blows out the page. The workaround is to use an iframe, which pulls in content from another page - a hole in a page that is filled with another page. Place your form on an html page, reference it as the src for the iframe and you are good to go. You should also create the confirmation page on an html page.

Here are some issues to watch for:
>You cant put links on the confirmation html page. I used to put enticement text on mine, like: "what would you like to do next...?" type stuff. In an iframe, it would cause your entire site to load in the iframe - you'd have the site in the site. Not good.
>Playing with the size of the iframe can be tricky - make sure that the iframe is large enough to fit the content from your html page.

Good luck with it!

PS Good luck with it furlongs!

Ahh... I remember now.

I've got a very limited space for the iframe, you now how I can launch a pop to show the confirmation page after clicking on submit?

Hey Shane,
You arent going to be able to with an iframe because the popup would be trapped in the frame...would likely be unpredictable...if a user closed the popup, the iframe contents would still be sitting there. You dont really need much room - go to my contact page, email me and see what happens.

Makes sense, but sucks.

Currently in v4 I had a single input box in the footer where customers could quickly enter their email and be redirected on success of the form.

It seems alot of hassle in v7 to accomplish the same thing, and way to much messing around to CSS the signup module.

Any ideas?

You are right - it does suck. I am hoping that there is an integrated workaround for forms at some point. I dont really understand the real issue with aspx, but I know you cant simply drop in a form - try it and see what happens.

Unfortunately, the only workaround is the iframe trick. I originally (v4) had my newsletter sign up box on my right column...you'll notice that its gone. Too much hassle to get it right in the column - its now on a custom page.

Wish I had better news, but iframe is the only game in town.

I, like Martinguy, have been around here for a while now. Me, since 1997, and since the inception of Icontact, which was pre v4, I have requested the integration. I have stopped requesting it of late, because I feel that it falls on def ears. The programmers don't know anything about retail, marketing, or running a business, so from their perspective it's not important.

I can tell you from years of sending out Newsletter via Icontact that my sales spike every time I send one out. So to me this is a vital sales tool and should be integrated like other shopping carts have done.

As for downloading and uploading your list, don't worry about duplicate emails because Icontact will not duplicate them and since the customer who unsubscribes from the newsletter does so through Icontact, they keep track of those email addresses and make sure they don't get emails sent to them.

Hope this is helpful.

Angel