Alex Sirota
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An error occurred while saving the comment Sure thing -- we have published full documentation here
Https://waxm.newpathconsulting.com/watm
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An error occurred while saving the comment It would be useful to add a "short description" box with a max of 200 characters to an event that can be shown as a preview and used as a macro in email instead of the full description
The event speaker(s) should also be a separate piece of data that could be featured in an email apart from the description. This would make for more marketing-friendly calls to action in an email and remove the need to include the full event description which can get long.
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An error occurred while saving the comment @Oleg,
Now that you are able to generate SSL certificates on the fly with Let's Encrypt, even custom domains can be SSL encrypted. This is a good step in the direction of allowing the payment process to occur under the domain of the customer, rather than a third party payments page.
Removing the need to bounce to an outside domain name with wholly different branding is a good user experience boost, and also will allow tracking of goal completion in Google Analytics.
It's a good thing, and I hope you will consider this for future improvements to optimizing the ecommerce experience in Wild Apricot.
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31 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment @Bryan - Why not just subscribe to uservoice and link it into your site or embed it into a Wild Apricot page. That is what this service is
uservoice.com
An error occurred while saving the comment I second this idea - need to be able to up and down vote comments on discussions and be able to float popular comments "higher" into the discussion tree. Sort of like this Wishlist forum actually :)
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An error occurred while saving the comment To be sure we have identified an approach that seems to work but it does require temporary downtime which is not always allowed or appropriate.
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An error occurred while saving the comment A few other notes on this -- one should allow a decimal point in the extra charge calculation to allow fractions. We use this field with a x 1.00 multiplier to collect donations as part of a membership. If you want to collect a 182.42 membership you can enter 182.42 into the extra charge calculation field but decimal points don't work so we need to run down and edit in the invoice system afterwards to add the remaining amount. This doesn't support the ongoing ability for the member to self-renew with the exact amount.
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An error occurred while saving the comment There is a potential issue with the way Wild Apricot currently delivers emails. It appears that the system is configured to "spoof" a sender address. When using a custom domain DKIM and SPF records are added to DNS for the custom domain but that does not always ensure successful email deliverability.
What could be improved is if an undeliverable email can be optionally re-delivered through a functioning real mailbox (rather than spoofing). This has several pieces of added value:
1. Emails will be delivered on behalf of a real mailbox that has storage space and hopefully good email profile. That mailbox must be configured under the custom domain name applied.
2. Because emails are sent through the SMTP server of the mailbox email deliverability should increase.
3. This could be an option to improve email deliverability as spam filters prefer real mailboxes as senders rather than the sender and from emails being different (as is the case now).
Because some hosts do not want hundreds of emails sent through an SMTP server there may be some constraints here. Also there is an added cost for a higher level of email deliverability that may be desired.
In concordance of this request maybe it should be possible deliver an undeliverable email through an alternate SMTP server that is configured optionally by the Wild Apricot admin.
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An error occurred while saving the comment We are working with a WA customer to help them integrate with AffiliateWP, a popular WordPress plugin with a ton of affiliate features/dashboards/coupons. There are multiple integrations with various systems in the WordPress ecosystem, but not Wild Apricot. I am looking to find out how to "inject" an affiliate code into the member subscription/join workflow. It appears that even adding a custom HTML widget on the Membership level change system page wouldn't work since we need to add it to the successful completion page and that does not seem to be accessible from the system pages editor.
Even if that were possible though, still the membership renewal has to have an affliate code inserted via the call via a search argument or as part of the browser session.
And then the final custom HTML would fire a JS back to the affiliateWP plugin to record a completed transaction, but I see multiple barriers:
1. How to inject the affiliate code so WP process doesn't reject it and uses it.
eg: https://newpathconsulting.wildapricot.org/Sys/MembershipLevelChange?affiliatecode=123
Seems to work but the search arg is lost on the next step.
2. The call back on the successful completion page.
I can only think of a theme override would be required to modify and support the injection and call back process to introduce the necessary scaffolding to support the call/callback of the affiliate process coming from AffilateWP powered WordPress site.
Another approach could be using Javascript to collect the inbound search arg on the initiall call, store the serach argument in a session and then load it up on the successful completion page, but again that specific page is in accessible to insert code into unless theme overrides are used (I imagine).
Maybe I am thinking about this wrong though. And maybe the mechanism is wrong.
Even a simple affiliate program with ability to record codes like discount codes and recording successful transactions in WA would be great. The requirements are quite simple.
1. Designate a code and record information for the affiliate program owner
2. When the code is recorded on the inbound call to the member registration system pick it up and on successful completion record a successful completion of a registration.Initially this could be used only for new subscriptions (not renewals, or recurring levels).
Depending on an external referral system to do this can be cumbersome and entail new costs/dependencies that are probably overkill for most people. Most are looking for a simple counter to compensate the affiliates based on simple math (percentage of the fee or a flat fee). This could be done all manually outside of WA since most affiliate programs are not that ambitious.
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An error occurred while saving the comment New customers who don't have experience embedding really lose it here. Especially nice formatting doesn't work. I think a better approach would be to have gadgets for video and audio so they can be placed anywhere without worrying about formatting.
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137 votes
An error occurred while saving the comment **** why don't you collect this information as part of the member profile? That way it can always be updated on renewals too or left as is.
An error occurred while saving the comment What is the current polls/surveys tool missing to address your needs CGD59? https://gethelp.wildapricot.com/en/articles/1582
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An error occurred while saving the comment Another twist to the need for duplicating events -- when duplicating an event you may wish to optionally change the start/end date and time so that when an event is duplicated you can on the fly duplicate the event but bump to a future date.
Event duplication should also have an option to duplicate published events and copy their settings for audiences. So if it is restricted and already taking registrations, a duplication should KEEP the settings as is. Currently a duplicate event is automatically disabled and set for admin only. I can see why this may be a desired behaviour but if you are using the duplicate event as an event template, you'd want ALL the settings to be exactly duplicated and just push the date to a future (or in theory past) date and time.
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