Subscribe Buyers to AcyMailing

With this VirtueMart plugin, all buyers of a product can be automatically added to an AcyMailing list upon purchase. Additionally (or alternatively), a "Subscribe" and "Unsubscribe" button can be shown on the product page to allow manual subscription and unsubscription of the product-specific mailinglist.

Typical use cases are:

• Automatically subscribe buyers to a newsletter about updates to the products they bought
• Sell subscription to newsletters (by disallowing manual subscription, so only buyers can ever be subscribed)
• Let users unsubscribe from product-spedific newsletters

For each product, you can select:

• The AcyMailing list for the product (multiple lists are possible), multiple products can also have the same list attached
• Whether buyers will automatically subscribed upon purchase
• Whether the "Subscribe"/"Unsubscribe" buttons are shown for registered or anonymous users, or not at all.

This plugin also needs to AcyMailing component installed (which can be downloaded for free).

Configuration & How the plugin works

The assignment of AcyMailing list to selected products is done via custom fields.

First, set up a Custom Field ("Products" -> "Custom Fields"):

• Create a new field (the green + button in the top right corner)
• Select "Plug-ins" as Custom Field Type
• Optionally use "ontop" as layout position (so the subscribe button appears near the "Add to Cart" button)
• Select "VM Subscribe Buyers to AcyMailing" as the plugin

Now you can add this custom field to any product you like:

Open the product in the VirtueMart backend, go to the "Custom Fields" tab and add the field you just created. You can now select the newsletter for the product, whether buyers are automatically subscribed and to whome the subscription buttons are displayed.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1) Which PHP, Joomla and VirtueMart versions does the plugin work with

I am developing the plugin with PHP 5.3 and 5.4 on Joomla 2.5 with VirtueMart 2.0.

Other combinations might work, but I have not had any reports (neither success nor failure). If you are using the plugin on a different combination of versions, please let me know whether it works or not.

License

This plugin is licenced unter the GNU GPLv3. It is also free to download, and you automatically obtain all the rights and duties that the GPL gives you, without any payment. If you find the plugin useful, it would still be nice if you could donate a certain amount.

Source Code and Contributing

The source code of this plugin is managed using git and a GitHub repository: https://github.com/open-tools/vm_acy_subscribe_buyer

To contribute to the project, feel free to send me patches or pull requests for this GitHub repository.