Autoresponder for marketing

[Imac]

Hi all,

Needed to know if there was an autoresponder capability OOTB and also
bounced mail support. I have been going over the demo for about a month now
and have come to the conclusion that Ofbiz would most likely fit my needs
OOTB with minor modifications (mostly on the commerce site itself), if the
campaign (communications) features would work the way I need. My site will
be primarily a lead generation site with ecommerce in the near future. Along
with that I will also be running a services biz which will focus heavily on
customer relations and events/speaking engagements and training sessions. I
know Ofbiz might be overkill for this but I feel better safe than sorry for
the future.

One other thing would be content/site management and if I'm not mistaken,
from what I've seen it should do ok for what I need.

If anyone has any suggestions or comments as to what I would like to do,
they would be much appreciated.

Also, I am very willing to contribute back any work that I do with Ofbiz in
exchange for your patience and help along the way. I'm going to need it!

Thanks in advance

Ed  

[S K Pradeep kumar]

I think this might help you : http://www.getresponse.com/
http://shop.opentaps.org/index.php/featured/getresponse-email-marketing-integration-module.html

With regards,
S K Pradeep Kumar,
9035009495


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Imac <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Needed to know if there was an autoresponder capability OOTB and also
> bounced mail support. I have been going over the demo for about a month now
> and have come to the conclusion that Ofbiz would most likely fit my needs
> OOTB with minor modifications (mostly on the commerce site itself), if the
> campaign (communications) features would work the way I need. My site will
> be primarily a lead generation site with ecommerce in the near future.
> Along
> with that I will also be running a services biz which will focus heavily on
> customer relations and events/speaking engagements and training sessions. I
> know Ofbiz might be overkill for this but I feel better safe than sorry for
> the future.
>
> One other thing would be content/site management and if I'm not mistaken,
> from what I've seen it should do ok for what I need.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions or comments as to what I would like to do,
> they would be much appreciated.
>
> Also, I am very willing to contribute back any work that I do with Ofbiz in
> exchange for your patience and help along the way. I'm going to need it!
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ed
>
>
>

[Imac]

Thanks for that Pradeep.

However, I was looking for something self hosted and AIO and I'm not sure
opentaps would be the way to go for me. Also, it isn't very reassuring to
see the opentaps ecommerce site using magento for the storefront!


On 10/25/13 7:21 PM, "S K Pradeep Kumar" <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>I think this might help you : http://www.getresponse.com/
>http://shop.opentaps.org/index.php/featured/getresponse-email-marketing-in
>tegration-module.html
>
>With regards,
>S K Pradeep Kumar,
>9035009495
>
>
>On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Imac <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Needed to know if there was an autoresponder capability OOTB and also
>> bounced mail support. I have been going over the demo for about a month
>>now
>> and have come to the conclusion that Ofbiz would most likely fit my
>>needs
>> OOTB with minor modifications (mostly on the commerce site itself), if
>>the
>> campaign (communications) features would work the way I need. My site
>>will
>> be primarily a lead generation site with ecommerce in the near future.
>> Along
>> with that I will also be running a services biz which will focus
>>heavily on
>> customer relations and events/speaking engagements and training
>>sessions. I
>> know Ofbiz might be overkill for this but I feel better safe than sorry
>>for
>> the future.
>>
>> One other thing would be content/site management and if I'm not
>>mistaken,
>> from what I've seen it should do ok for what I need.
>>
>> If anyone has any suggestions or comments as to what I would like to do,
>> they would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Also, I am very willing to contribute back any work that I do with
>>Ofbiz in
>> exchange for your patience and help along the way. I'm going to need it!
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>

[S K Pradeep kumar]

You can use any opentaps OOTB component in ofbiz

With regards,
S K Pradeep Kumar,
9035009495


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Imac <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks for that Pradeep.
>
> However, I was looking for something self hosted and AIO and I'm not sure
> opentaps would be the way to go for me. Also, it isn't very reassuring to
> see the opentaps ecommerce site using magento for the storefront!
>
>
> On 10/25/13 7:21 PM, "S K Pradeep Kumar" <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> >I think this might help you : http://www.getresponse.com/
> >
> http://shop.opentaps.org/index.php/featured/getresponse-email-marketing-in
> >tegration-module.html
> >
> >With regards,
> >S K Pradeep Kumar,
> >9035009495
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Imac <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Needed to know if there was an autoresponder capability OOTB and also
> >> bounced mail support. I have been going over the demo for about a month
> >>now
> >> and have come to the conclusion that Ofbiz would most likely fit my
> >>needs
> >> OOTB with minor modifications (mostly on the commerce site itself), if
> >>the
> >> campaign (communications) features would work the way I need. My site
> >>will
> >> be primarily a lead generation site with ecommerce in the near future.
> >> Along
> >> with that I will also be running a services biz which will focus
> >>heavily on
> >> customer relations and events/speaking engagements and training
> >>sessions. I
> >> know Ofbiz might be overkill for this but I feel better safe than sorry
> >>for
> >> the future.
> >>
> >> One other thing would be content/site management and if I'm not
> >>mistaken,
> >> from what I've seen it should do ok for what I need.
> >>
> >> If anyone has any suggestions or comments as to what I would like to do,
> >> they would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Also, I am very willing to contribute back any work that I do with
> >>Ofbiz in
> >> exchange for your patience and help along the way. I'm going to need it!
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

[Ted Byers]

On Friday, October 25, 2013 07:40:23 PM Imac wrote:
> Thanks for that Pradeep.
>
> However, I was looking for something self hosted and AIO and I'm not sure
> opentaps would be the way to go for me. Also, it isn't very reassuring to
> see the opentaps ecommerce site using magento for the storefront!
>

I don't know what your issue is (and I don't know what the acronym AIO
represents), in part because you haven't offered a precise definition of what
you need to accomplish, but if your autoresponder is not there out of the box,
it is almost trivial to make one.  I do it frequently using Perl (but then,
the ecommerce transaction processing API I developed has been developed in
Perl.  One of these days, I will integrate my API (once I figure out how to get
it to talk to the major Canadian Banks - All the banks it talks to are either
in Europe or Latin America at present) into OFBiz.

For example, when a transaction is processed, whether MOTO, involving a call
center's agents, or a website's shopping cart, I can configure my system to
email a receipt to the customer and a notice to the merchant.  It takes about
an hour and a half to write that, or a script that sends an email
automagically in response to any event I can detect.  This could in principle
be done in Java, in the module that handles the transaction, though I do not
know if that is done in OFBiz.  And it takes only a little longer to create a
perl script (and again, you can generally use any programming language you're
comfortable with: Java, C++, ADA, VB, C#, &c., and even assembler, if you're
that masochistic ;-)  - when I was in university, our department's sysop had
the attitude that real programmers program only in machine language, i.e.
binary) that runs as a scheduled task (so stand alone rather than as part of
an application supported by an application server) to process incoming emails
(not really something you want an application server to handle), and send
emails automatically as appropriate to the sender, the merchant, or anyone
else, as appropriate (defined in the functional requirements derived from the
business processes that need to be supported.

And I have seen some cases where no programming was required at all, in that
the auto-response was something configured in the corporate mail server itself.

I can not tell, from what you have written, what you want in an autoresponder.  
You haven't said what the events are for which you want an automatic response,
whether you're focussed on incoming or outgoing email, or how you envision the
OFBiz application, running on the usual application server should be talking
to your email servers (pop, IMAP, STMP).  Having written so many, I can think
of half a dozen different kinds of autoresponders, each requiring a different
solution, and sometimes very different technologies.  I would think some of
these would be already built into the ecommerce modules, needing only suitable
configuration so they know what mail servers to talk to and how, with what
credentials (but I haven't examined them closely enough to know), and others
would be of interest only to processing banks and their resellers.

To get a more useful answer, you may need to define more precisely what you
want to do.  Then, maybe, someone can either tell you which files to examine,
or offer advice on how best to write it.

HTH

Ted