Extra! Member Management - Update
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 11:08PM Spent most of today migrating my member details across from PayPal, esellerate and the .htaccess script mechanism I use to manually manage my members. One of the few things I love about Microsoft is the data manipulation capabilities of Excel and yes, it works just fine on the Mac! - I'd have been stuffed without Text to Columns and AutoFilter. I just don't know of another package with this type of functionality. The migration process was quite involved, not so much from the aMember side as the import mechanism is pretty sweet, but due to the complexity of bringing over members from different sources. I made a major boo boo on the final stages transforming some dates which made half of the members expiry date incorrect. This was after I discovered the save and restore mechanism. Some manual edits and all was well. Just got about 40 records to double check, update the ScreenCastsOnline website with the new arrangements and some new pages and then unleash it on the poor, unsuspecting Extra! members! To be truthful, it should make life better for both the members and myself. I may so a short screencast to explain all. The only thing I still need to resolve is an alternative payment gateway for those people who really don't like PayPal. Even though you don't need an PayPal account and can pay with a credit card, some people still won't use PayPal. I have an account setup with eSellerate but unfortunately, there is no integration with aMember. This means any new users using eSellerate still have to be managed manually. I did a quick check of other payment gateways but they are all so expensive to setup! Anyone with any recommendations on a cheap low volume payment gateway that integrates with aMember?
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Well it finally happened, I got an appearance on Rocketboom!
OK so if you blink you'll miss it, and it's in the distance and if you didn't know I was there you'd miss it but hey, it's me!
Just so you don't miss it I've included a freeze frame from Rocketboom from 3/10/2006 - that's me in the red circle :-)
The two guys sitting in front are Paul Colligan and Andrew Baron (Mr Rocketboom himself). This was taken just before Andrews keynote (obviously) on the second day.
Don't worry, I won't let this appearance go to my head!
