Aweber

Aweber is one of the most popular hosted autoresponder services available on the web. You can sign up for an account with them at: www.aweber.com.

To integrate AShop with your Aweber account you will also need to ask them to provide a so called "email parser", which is an additional service that they charge extra for. It is an email address that is connected to your Aweber list and whenever someone sends an email to that address they are automatically signed up with the list. AShop can send an email no behalf of your customers to your Aweber parser when they buy a product.m This is done through the automation fulfilment feature in AShop.

Start by editing the file aweber.php in the automation directory. Change the $ashoppath variable to the filesystem path to your AShop on the server. Change the $password variable to any password you wish to use to secure the script from unauthorized use. Change the $aweberemail to the email address used with your parser. Upload the modified aweber.php script to your AShop.

Create a fulfilment option on the page Configuration->Fulfilment in your AShop admin panel. Select "Automation" as the fulfilment method and enter a descriptive name, for example "Aweber". Select if you want your customers to be signed up whenever they order something from you "Run once: Per order" or only if they buy certain products "Run once: Per associated product". Leave the "Include returned data in receipt" option turned off. Enter the URL to your aweber.php script in the URL field, for example: http://www.yourdomain.com/ashop/automation/aweber.php. Change the "Other fields+values" box at the bottom of the page to: "password=yourownpassword" where "yourownpassword" should be changed to the password you put in your aweber.php script. Leave the other fields with their default values and click "Update" to save the fulfilment option.

Depending on wether you selected to run the fulfilment option once per order or once per associated product you may now also need to associate it with some of your products, which is done through the "Fulfilment" buttons on the page "Edit Catalog".