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Auto-email customers with abandoned carts?
Some of my competitors automagically send out polite inquiry emails within an hour or so if you start a cart in their shop and then abandon it. I would love to have this too, especially since I'm relatively new to x-cart and don't have a good idea of why carts get abandoned on my site (other than the Canadian shipping issue). Does anyone offer this kind of mod?
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Re: Auto-email customers with abandoned carts?
This is highly "illegal" in today's e-mail world. Technically, you are only allowed to send an e-mail to someone if:
a. They bought something form your site and you are contacting them about their order. b. They opted in to a mailing list c. They contacted you requesting information If a customer started a cart, they may have a million reasons to abandon it, but sending them any kind of e-mail about it is not a good idea.
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Re: Auto-email customers with abandoned carts?
Hi all,
I do use this feature on a OSC site and it realy works! I know that there might be a problem when people find it spam, but so far in the last two years that I use I I never had complaints. But sending this kind of mail helped met to 1- improve my service and 2- increase my sales. I someone has a feature like this please leave a message Mark
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Re: Auto-email customers with abandoned carts?
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here is the breakdown of the basics of the canned spam law. Hope this helps you write your terms of service and privacy policy. Hardly anyone ever reads the sites privacy, terms of service, and website use policies. Yet these policies are what lets the viewer and registering customer know what you plan to do with their information. If they do not agree they may then leave with no harm being done, or should they choose to remain browsing, they are now accepting your terms, especially if they registered and then abandoned a cart and you had a specific detailed policy letting them know you may send them an email if their is non-complete or problems with attempted orders. Just don't go crazy and make the policy so broad that someone would not even stay viewing the site. If the policy is too opened ended you risk alienating your customer base. be specific in the terms and always write it to be customer service oriented so they get the feel good feeling when they read it. Please contact a lawyer for verification on how you should proceed. And for the mod get xcart, bcse, Ryan or someone else that knows xcart to code this basic setup for you. Good Luck! What the Law Requires Here's a rundown of the law's main provisions:
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Re: Auto-email customers with abandoned carts?
Thank you Jason!
I will get in touch with one of the companies Mark
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