OK that's good. I have mailed Viart to go ahead as at the foot of this message.
We now each make our $150 payments at: www.viart.com/custom_work
quoting: "Custom Coding - Introduce a Friend"
I would expect Viart to start working on this early next wek; I cannot say when it will be available but my past experience is that they are very good and deliver efficiently.
Best wishes
Chris
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THE BRIEF TO VIART:
Three of us have now agreed to proceed with this and each of us will pay $150 this week end.
To confirm, the summary of the project is as follows - please not the concern of one partner in this added to the end - I am sure that you will already have realised the necessity of this but it is useful to confirm it.
Could you also, please, let me know how long this will take assuming you have all the payments by Monday morning?
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1. When any user of the site use 'Tell a Friend' function and send some invitation to his friend an additional parameter will be appended to the url with user login or id information like
http://www.example.com/some_link.html?friend=friend_name
This 'additional parameter' can be used by admin in newsletters to those customers (eg admin can send a message to each customer with their individual codes)
BOTH customer and friend can get benefits** from the introduction.
** such as discounts, free product, free shipping
Apply discount if customer's friends bought some products:
- - this could include selection by product / category to limit rewards this way
2. We can create new settings for the Coupons Discount systems like:
- Option to apply discount for friends visits:
Apply discount if:
( ) for all friends visits (o) only for friends from the list of customers below:
[x] Chris
[x] Dan
...
[x] Dick
- Another option to apply discount for a customer who invites friends:
Apply discount if customer's friends bought some products:
Minimum Amount [ 100.00 ]
Maximum Amount [ 1000.00 ]
This would be used when you as administrator decide to limit some discount rules to apply only for certain users to have more flexibility.
For mass mailing, the unique code - the feature will us the customer ID so this can be marketed with the customer easily.
"Once a friend has registered, bought and received the reward, that friend cannot receive another reward - whether from that introducing customer or any other customer. This a once-only benefit for a new customer. This also means that, once registered etc ... a customer will not receive a reward if introduced by another different customer."
