I've read a lot of posts about this but I couldn't find anything definitive about what the problem is. I know there is/was an aweber plugin and that it's apparently been suspended. I assume that was a general purpose public plug in, but is it possible for amember to make a custom integration for our site? (For a fee of course.) Thanks!
You'll need to send a support ticket in to get the final answer. heres a discussion we've been having on the topic: https://www.amember.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7878 David
I've talked to different people at aweber who give different answers. Some are adamant that for a parsed signup to be "legal" it has to come from a 3rd party (e.g. paypay, 2checkout, clickbank, etc). However, another person told me that since they've signed up for a membership through amember that "it should be alright". It seems to me the bottom line is that they signed up to be a member of your site so it's obvious that they are expecting some communication from you. Regardless, the person still has to optin to your list by clicking the confirmation link in the first email. That right there is proof that they wanted to be on your list. The link in the first reply of this thread has some good info. As one person says: "This IP trail everyone goes on about is BS amember has all the data needed to pass onto aweber. I've spoken to aweber about it previously for similar scripts and when you speak to the right people, you get the right answers." I guess all you can do is give it a shot and see if it flies. Or find out who the "right people" are to give you the right answers.
I just spoke to Aweber (head of customer services) again after asking for a parser and he confirmed that any email subscription to be parsed HAS to come ONLY from a third party hosted site or the subscriber themselves, and anything other than that is banned, NO EXCEPTIONS. The comments from the other user re: is it a shopping cart etc relates ONLY to third party hosted carts such as 1shoppingcart or affiliate carts like clickbank etc. He was adament that no exceptions are ever made as any self hosted script creates a security issue to them.
I've been in contact with Tom Kulzer the CEO of AWeber about this and will be doing an interview with him next week. What he told me is exactly what calisolllc said. "Unfortunately aMember would not qualify for our automated sign up process since it is a server installed script that has no centrally controlled entity behind it. Permitting auto signups from it would lead to big issues with spam with less scrupulous users." David
So if that is the case that users who sign-up on our site (with aMember) and get membership can't automatically be enrolled with aWeber... (1) How have others worked around this? (2)Have you changed your business process? (3) Do you make the user first sign-up with an aWeber form on your site and when the click to confirm ((4)Can you alter the aWeber confirmation page to include such a link?) have aWeber send them to another (aMember) page which signs them up as an actual member? (5) Can any variables be passed back from aWeber to the aMember page (negating them from having to enter some of the fields?)
David, have you done the interview? Did you write up an article or did an interview format? Can we read it? Thanks. Dave
You can use cookies, or aweber pass back the information to your signup form, and then pre-populate it. Did the interview last week- sorry, its only for my premium members I don't go into too much detail about aweber policies, focused more on email marketing etc. David
Hi Davd, Can you tell me.... How is this done? Do you have an example of such implementation? "You can use cookies, or aweber pass back the information to your signup form, and then pre-populate it." Warm regards, Mark