Thread: Allow customers to subscribe to new products

any way to setup a subscription box that allows customers to enter their email address and it will subscribe them to new product listings via email?

that would be pretty awesome add-on!

anyone know if this is possible?

Yes, this is possible.

- Client sign's up for notification
- Auto notification tool generates email based off of a template, and fills in dynamic elements (name, products)

To consider:
- Will clients be notified instantly (as soon as a new product is published)? Or will they be given a periodic summary - i.e. " the new products we released this week " - over the course of a given amount of time.

what is the "Auto notification tool"....is that something that is included with adnsf?

This sounds like a nice add-on, I might have a go at writing this if I get time.

How I'd approach it?

- Write an XMLpackage template for the customer's email content
- Write a stored proc to extract all new products created since the last time the module ran
- Write an .aspx page to run the stored proc, extract the list of new products and use the XMLPackage to email it to all subscribers
- Use the Windows task scheduler to run the above page every week

let me know if anyone creates this add-on. i'll buy it.

For any one visiting this thread, the add-on was developed for toofast. Contact me for more info.