Provide an easy interface within MIVA Merchant for
visitors to refer your site
URL to their friends. The module uses the MIVA SMTP capability.
The subject and body of the Tell a Friend email message is
configurable through the Merchant admin interface. The
form colors and fonts that the customer sees is also
configurable in admin. You can choose to have a CC
sent to the store email address and a log entry (date,
from, to, product code - if applicable) maintained in a
flat file when referrals are sent. If the customer sends
the referral email when they are on a specific product
screen, a second link to the product is included in the
email. In Merchant 4.x and if you are using our Gift - Wish
List module, there is a convenient button on the bottom of
the Gift List display that sends the Gift List URL to your
friends.
The module is MMUI and OpenUI compatible. If using the
MMUI, two edits are required in the mmui.mv. With MMUI,
you can place the button just about anywhere on the
screen that you want it, the most common location being at
the bottom of the category column. With the OpenUI, you
can select through admin among the eight possible locations.
New in the compiled version is an alternate template form for the customer to enter friend names and email addresses, plus an option to allow them to include a note. The default form has three friends names and addresses. With the alternate template, you can have more than three. This template can be HTML customized to suit your look and feel. If you are not skilled at coding HTML, you can still use the default (built in) form which is customized with colors, fonts, etc with easy inputs in admin.
New in the compiled version is the ability to embed
certain tokens in the tell a friend email. For example,
if you are using our Coupon Redemption module with its
unique coupon code generation feature you can insert a
token like %module|couponrd|1~TELL-% in the body of the
email. If you are on a product page when you send the
email, the email can also contain the product name,
image or thumbnail, and price by using tokens.
New in the compiled version is the ability to send the email as HTML formatted instead of plain text. The emails can be multipart so that you can have both text and html sections of the email and the recipient browser will automatically select which section it is able to display.
In Merchant 5x you can change the character set from default iso-8859-1 to others, e.g. utf-8.
New in the compiled version is the ability to send the
search string to a friend if your store is also using our Power Search
module. Clicking the link will reproduce the search the original
friend had created with Power Search prior to sending the Tell-a-Friend
email. This is similar to the link you can send for
the Gift/Wish list if you are using our Gift List module.
The compiled version of this module can use OpenTokens
instead of hook points within OpenObjects. The
OpenDesigner screen lists the OpenObjects which can
replace all or some screens within the OpenUI user
interface. The OpenObjects provide a template screen
which contains the existing hook points (backward
compatibility), OpenToken capability, and the ability to
move output around within the OpenObject screen. Since
the tokens in this module conform to OpenToken
functionality, they may be used in other template type
screens like those provided by Viking Coders. Place the
Tell-a-Friend button on the Merchant pages so that it
better fits your desired look.
In Merchant version 5.x you can have the Tell A Friend form on a page in Merchant or use it in a popup screen. You can display a thank you message after the submission and if you are using our coupon module, can generate an on-the-fly, unique coupon code.
Online overview
and initial setup instructions for our MIVA Merchant modules.
