It's a job scheduler that operates within AC7. Even in shared hosting environments. No access to the server console is required.
Here is the current feature list, subject to change of course:
- Product Now-In-Stock notification. Registered users add out-of-stock items to their wishlist. When the item comes back in stock, AC7 automatically sends an email to the user using your own email template to encourage the sale. Hands-off to you as the site admin and encourages visitors to leverage the AC7 Wishlist feature more often.
- Order follow ups. Automatically send an email to customers a specific number of days after the order has shipped. Say something like "Thanks again for your business, we just wanted to make sure you received everything as expected." This makes for a great marketing opportunity for your site. Again uses your own custom email template and is completely hands-off.
- Completely automate AC7 feed generation and upload for all standard AC7 feed formats. Eventually I'll tie this into my Feed Builder module as well. Google will never know what hit them
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- Automatic sitemap.xml file generation.
- Support for 1-time and recurring scheduled jobs.
- Ability to pause/unpause the processing queue. Also easily cancel unwanted jobs at any time.
- Admin-defined polling interval lets you control how often jobs are scanned and processed.
- Unlimited jobs. There is no physical limit to the number of jobs you can schedule. Your server and hosting speeds will still dictate a sensible limit.
- Fantastic customization possibilities. Wrote your own distributor feed but have to manually run it every day? Need an automatic export to an FTP location? No problem, I can add it as a custom job to the module and you can schedule it to run as often as you like.
- Best of all, ALL of these features are possible by changing only 1 AbleCommerce 7 file in your storefront. Just load up my DLL's, copy the management ASPX pages into the ~/Admin/ folder and you're ready to automate your store. Installation will be super easy.
I should have a beta ready by the end of the month, if not sooner. Live testing on Solunar.com will begin tomorrow.
By the end of Jan 2009, I'll have about 90% of my daily storefront tasks fully automated. No more feed uploads. No more distributor data pushes and pulls. Joy and bliss will be mine
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Pricing hasn't been set. But don't worry- it'll be reasonable like my other module prices.