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I have some good info to share.
Although I really would prefer integration with Drip.com, I have figured out how to integrate with Zapier.
The problem is that with decent usage, Zapier required a paid account which at a minimum is $20/month, so hard to justify when already paying for other services.
I would rather pay you for an upgrade or premium feature than pay them, but…
Here’s what I did:
Now, every time a person signs up to a simple giveaway, the first email will get sent from the plug-in, but after that, I can do all the emails using Drip.com instead.
The trick is to use I took the email notice that gets sent to me with every new subscriber (“A new user subscribed to your giveaway…”)
I added a rule in my email server to forward a copy to the Zapier parser (parser.zapier.com. This is a relatively less-known tool of Zapier that will parse email text based on a template you supply.
With some quick tests, I was able able to get Zapier to parse the user name and email from the simple giveaway message and then send it along to Drip.com through the existing integration with Drip that Zapier already has.
FEATURE REQUEST:
Could you add the user’s giveaway URLs in the “new user subscribed” email that I get? If you included the URL’s that are sent directly to the user in their welcome email sent by the plug-in, I could add that to Drip.
Then I could send reminders from Drip with “If you want to check your current referral balance, just click this link ….” and “Use this link to share with your friends…..” etc.
Thanks!
I’ve started working with shortcodes and I think that will get me most of the way.
Yes, better docs would help, but maybe a few more video/screencast walkthroughs in the meantime as that is often quicker to make than writing a lot of docs.
For me, cloning a giveaway with the option to duplicate all subscribers would work, but I’m ok with just manually resetting the ending time on the last day before it expires (assuming I can do that) to keep the giveaway running for another month.
Understand the challenges of an indie dev – have been in those shoes in the past an currently I’m an indie myself (but in a different industry – smart home systems).
I would definitely pay for a premium version that had more options and features differently that would offer now. Just saying might be another way to get paid to add features besides the current division between free and pro version.
For me, the most important features I would pay for are integration with DRIP email system and the ability to to let DRIP send out all emails so as each subscriber signs up, DRIP get’s notified and can send the welcome message. The username, user email, and unique subscriber id or url is passed to DRIP so a custom welcome message can be sent. (Haven’t seen how you do integration now, but assuming you do something like that already, but just not for Drip).
Zapier would be ok, but DRIP is ideal for me since that is what I use now.
If I may suggest, building blocks, shortcodes, Guttenberg blocks would be best use of your time instead of building your own layout/WYSIWYG editor for more layouts. So many layout tools already exist and native to WP that you should be able to leverage that and not have to build your own?