I am not sure if this could be something done in aMember, or something possible with 1ShoppingCart or Authorize.NET. I am wanting to receive a text message on my phone whenever I get a new sale to my membership site. Obviously I only want to get the text IF the person actually paid I called 1ShoppingCart and the guy wanted my merchantID. I know that I am out of their stupid support policy. Basically after 30 days or whatever you don't get free support. If I gave him my merchant ID I probably could expect a charge on my CC lol. Instead of giving him my info, I was like "Man all I want to know is if I can receive Text Messages when I get a new sale"... and he said No, very crappy. So maybe he is wrong, I am not sure. I haven't checked with Authorize.NET yet. The other solution is to write a script and place it in the ThankYou page of aMember. Have it check to see if they PAID. If so, send me a text with a few details of the transaction. Yes, I could just have my email on my phone, but that is a pain as I get a bunch of emails and I am only interested in knowing when I make money when I am away from home. I could use some strings and have it look for "New Payment Received" in the subject, if so forward the email to a separate email address which I have synced on my phone. However the Text Message option would be the easiest and cleanest solution. So I am looking for some ideas. Maybe someone here has already set this up to receive text messages on their phone when they make a sale?
Yep, you can use the twitter API to sent updates to your phone. The only downside is that they will also post to your twitter page. To get around this, you can create a 2nd twitter ID and make it private. We hired someone to code the bridge for us... We stopped using it (it worked, but we realized it was just as easy to monitor aMember directly). I looked, and I didn't save a copy... Sorry about that... but I know that it is fairly easy to code. The guys only charged us about $80.
I can do the coding myself, just trying to get ideas before I spend hours coding and trial and error, then find out there was an easier already done solution. I don't like re-inventing the wheel. I think I am just going to write a php code. There are some free websites where you can enter the number and message and send a free text message from a website. So there are ways of doing this in php. I will code it up, have it grab amember variables, and stuff it into the ThankYou page. Still looking for further advice while I code this up. If I get it done I will post it here
This is a bit dated of an article, but the same logic applies that most cell phone providers have an email address assigned to send sms messages to phones via an email address: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/ Contact your cell phone company and find out what the right email format is for yours. In this case you could avoid any custom coding at all by making use of the existing "Admin Payment" notifications that aMember already sends out. You can either set up a forwarding rule/filter in your email to auto-forward the Payment notification to your mobile phone email or modify the template for the "Admin Payment" notification to include the extra email.
Exactly. You could just set the email that gets sent out all payment notifications to be your mobile one, such as 1234567890@your.provider.com (where the first part is your phone number).