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- ILuvSushi
Question, i'm going to be setting up a small e-commerce site. What do you think about this:
After they purchase a thank you gets posted to their cell phone as a text message. Of course this would be opt-in and allow for future sales etc to be sent to the purchaser.?
Thoughts?
- ********0
I use Miva and once a CC has been used officially it forwards a message to their E-mail account. Pretty standard stuff. I guess you could tweak it to go to SMS as well. :)
- ILuvSushi0
jazx so then you think it would be a nice added touch?
- ********0
yes and no. Hmmmm? I think some people will like it because it assures them that their order was processed and yet then there are others that will get irritated at having to delete the SMS message. Whatever you can never totally win, go for it.
- ToxicDesign0
Why would you ever want to send an SMS? It won't work for a receipt, and not everyone can get SMS right? so why?
Hey, stick to your medium:
Buy something over the phone = get a call confirmation
Buy something via snail mail = get a mailed receipt back
Buy something online = get an email confirmation receipt.
[ ok now you've made me type "receipt" too many times]
- also the first ever site I did was an e-commerce site using http://www.authorize.net with all orders being stored in a mySQL db - haven't had a prob yet...
- meph5040
first I would have to say to stay away from miva, its bloated as hell and a money pit, with all the lisc. you have to have.
as far as SMS, SMS is not the same as emailing someones phone and requires a lot more effort to SMS from a server.
Unless you have your store set up for WAP then I don't see what the big point of it would be ?
its a nice idea, but I don't know that it would be widely used or an attraction for e-com customers.
thats my .02, if you have the time, skills and resources do it. and if it works then I'll be the first one to say sorry.
- shutdown0
I'd stick with what people expect
email works and can be kept.
Plus it will cost you to send an sms everytime so save the money and buy a bit more bandwidth and have fancy html email reciepts
- ajxthompson0
which e-commerce are you using?
- ILuvSushi0
I'm unsure which e-commerce i'm going to use yet. There will initially only be like a handful of items.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
- ILuvSushi0
Heh- I was almost thinking of just using paypal initially :(
- ********0
MIVA + PayPal and PayQuake. Cheap methods for this type of shit.
- ILuvSushi0
how much would MIVA run me?
- ILuvSushi0
Whoa, Miva is a little up there for right now. It almost seems paypal is the most economical as well as payquake.
Maybe I should test the waters with my products before i jump in to something like miva.
- jox0
Why would anybody want a message on their phone? Stick to e-mail - after all, they were ordering *online*, and would probably want to be notified online. In fact, skip the thank you, it's just annoying.
It's like when you email people a question, and then they call you back to give you the answer. I hate that.
- meph5040
OScommerce is a free opensource package that with VERY little php knowledge you can set up and get going.
I converted over 30 Miva sites to OScommerce and saved my company about $5k a year in Lisc. cost alone.
I truly hate miva, it VERY slow, has many problems when connecting to gateways such as yourpay.com and authorize.net
not to mention the interface sucks.
I'm pretty biased against it, I admit that. But OScommerce beats it hands done in my book.