This is the customer support page. Please post your questions or comments here. You can also send me your question, comments or suggestions via in-world IM to Fred Allandale.
This is the customer support page. Please post your questions or comments here. You can also send me your question, comments or suggestions via in-world IM to Fred Allandale.
Will there ever be a way to monitor subscribers online? Like.. if we were to put in our individual numeric code or username, and see all of the people who have subscribed? That was the one really big perk that I loved about Subscribe-o-Matic, which I transitioned from just yesterday because I reached the breaking point with payments. I would love to have that online feature with Subscriber Kiosk at some point, if possible. Otherwise, keep up the great work! I’m getting used to the new system and so far, so good!
~Averie Larnia~
By: Averie Larnia on January 27, 2009
at 10:13 am
Subscriber Kiosk was designed to be a totally in-world solution in order to avoid the need to charge a monthly fee for web site maintenance and data storage. The trade is that you give up the capability to do web-based inquiries. Having said that, I may at some point look into the feasibility of web integration, however it would be a rather large effort and might necessitate charging a monthly fee.
To compensate for the lack of a web-based interface, I have tried to offer some features that are not available in other subscriber systems, such as the ability to add names manually (via chat or notecard list), send multiple inventory items, providing an API, etc. I can now also provide a semi-automatic way to import your subscriber list from Subscribe-O-Matic. Send me an IM in-world if you want more details on this.
Thanks for the question and I hope you will find Subscriber Kiosk to be a convenient and cost effective tool.
Best Regards,
Fred Allandale
By: Fred on January 27, 2009
at 10:59 am
Hi Fred,
I have a couple questions regarding features/potential features:
1. A huge selling point for me (Master Pro 3.0) was the API capability. Is there any means or are any scripters working on some of the best features that hippo has such as Marketplace auto-subscription when a customer buys, or something like hippovisit? These are incredibly useful, and I can’t see giving up hippovisit or hippogroup yet as they super-powerful in combination with hippogroups. Hippovisit is basically an invisible greeter which offers subscription either by sensor or collide. I’m sure I can connect a prim via API, but I just don’t know how
In the meantime, I will have to keep transferring customers into Master Pro via list to txt instructions.
2. Will the API functionality allow for MySQL via PHP integration on each merchant’s own web site? For example, if I’m fine with having my own website which can hold a MySQL PHP database, I’m all good with hosting it myself, I would just need the API written to connect those two things.
3. Are either of these available now?
THANKS!
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By: S0phie Sautereau on October 30, 2010
at 3:23 pm
Hi SOphie. Thanks for your comments and questions.
1. There are two sensor based Greeters for sale at Night Sky that were developed by other scripters to work with Subscriber Kiosk via the API. If you visit my store at Night Sky, one of these will greet you and offer you the option to subscribe. I am also working on a simple vendor that can be used with a Subscriber Kiosk to offer new buyers an opportunity to subscribe and also offer existing subscribers discounts. Stay tuned.
2. The API is intended primarily to allow you to develop LSL scripts that can communicate with a Subscriber Kiosk to do things such as add/remove subscribers, query whether an avatar is an existing subscriber, monitor when someone subscribes/unsubscribes, etc.. So you could write a separate script that uses the Subscriber Kiosk API commands and HTTPIn/HTTPOut LSL functions to connect a kiosk with an external website database. MySQL and PHP are not my areas of expertise but I am sure there are other folks out there that could develop those scripts for you.
Best Regards,
Fred
By: Fred on October 30, 2010
at 5:01 pm
Hi. Can you please send me the instructions to be able to send a gift (that is NOT full perm on a notecard) to my subscriber list? Whatever I am doing, I am doing it incorrectly.
Thanks!
Artie Jonstone
By: Artie Jonstone on April 20, 2012
at 7:20 pm
Hi Artie:
Make sure the name of the item you are sending does not start with an asterisk (*) or “subscriber”. Those names are reserved for specific purposes and are never sent from the kiosk to your list. If you are not the kiosk owner, but are an authorized administrator, the item must have copy and transfer next owner permissions. If you are the kiosk owner, the item can have any next owner permissions.
By: Fred on April 20, 2012
at 8:12 pm