facebook connect

[kastlebrick]

Has anyone used "facebook connect" ..for their Customer Registration Template??

I'm not quite sure how to set it up, codes would be appreciated.

BFChris, or Jim.. is this even possible?

[Jim]

We are looking into the possibility of using Facebook Connect, however they keep changing their api integration so until that gets finalized it is not possible to say when or if the feature will be implemented in ShopSite. I really doubt that it would be possible to do this outside of the ShopSite code because of the encryption routines needed to access encrypted information in the ShopSite database are not available to outside applications.

[kastlebrick]

Thanks Jim,

That figures....

that's like, not being able to include "free local delivery" <~that sucks
~I only want to have the 5 surrounding zips for free LOCAL delivery. ..an no I don't know how to write JS. nor can we afford to pay someone

this should be simple enough for the average user, but it's not

by the way.. I did add the 42,000+ zip codes to the exclude.

[Jim]

I understand your frustration but security of shopper data is highest priority. No one wants to receive a letter saying that the server their data was stored on was compromised and their credit card and address information was possibly compromised. That is why we don't allow access to the encryption data in the database.

In regard to your comment about the "free local delivery". If you entered 42000 zip codes to exclude 5 you don't understand how the zipcode functionality works. Here is what I entered to exclude these 5 zipcodes that are in my neighborhood, 84058,84057,84097,84601,84603

0????,1????,2????,3????,4????,5????,6????,7????,9????,80???,81???,82???,83???,85???,86???,87???,88???,89???,841??,842??,843??,845??,847??,848??,849??,8401?,8402?,8403?,8404?,8407?,8408?,84091,84092,84093,84094,84095,84096,84098,84099,84051,84052,84053,84054,84055,84056,84059,846?0,846?2,84604,84605,84606,84607,84608,84609,84090,84091,84092,84093,84094,84095,84096,84098,84099

The ? character is a wild card to represents any number (or letter). So to exclude all zips that start with a 0 you just have to use 0????. You do likewise for the first number of all other zips except for the main number used for your local area. That will exclude the largest majority of the zips in the country. Once you are in the zips that start with the same number as your local zips you do the same things for the second number in the zip. So in my case all the zips start with 84 so I exclude all zips starting with 80,81,82,83,85,86,87,88,89. The next digit can be either a 0 or a 6 so I can exclude 841, 842,843,844,845,847,848,849 by putting ?? after them. For the 840 series I can exclude the 8401,8102,8403,8404,8406,8407,8408 by adding a ? to each of those numbers. Similarly for the 846 series all but the 0 range of the 4th digit can be excluded. 8461,8462,8463,8464,8465,8466,8467,8468,8469 each followed by ? That leaves just the 8405, 8409 and 8460 numbers and those can be done by excluding the last digits that don't match the 5,7 in the 8405x and the 7 in 8409x and 1,3 in the 8460x series.

It took me a lot longer to write this description than what it actually took to figure out the exclude zip series and put them in the field.

We generally try to work on features that will benefit the most merchants. We haven't had many requests for and "include" option for the free shipping. With a limited number of engineers and time, we try to have the developers work on higher profile features that get more bang for the buck. There are some nice features being worked on for the next version of ShopSite, I think most merchants will be pleased with what we are implementing. Some like the Facebook Connect rely on other companies development so we can't release those features until the development platform is stable.

Feel free to add enhancement requests to the Enhancement forum. We look at all of the enhancements and determine which will benefit the most users and not affect others in a negative way.

[kastlebrick]

Jim, thanks for writing this all.. I WILL read it after dinner..

but I just wanted to say I found a spread sheet listing all zip codes with their state an city all in different columns..

I copied column "A", the zip codes, took out the local ones I want to offer free delivery an pasted it into the exclude.

WAY easier than editing the zips with ???? ........when I have time I may go through them. because there are probably some missing

[kastlebrick]

Gotcha Jim,

I'll look into, Shopsites sister co... for hosting as I would think they will keep up to date. ~wish we has our own server, cuz it'd be done!!

Yes not only FB connect, but as I've seen you can log in Via, google/facebook/yahoo/twitter.. or your normal site log in.

I look forward to new implementation... an will check out the Enhancement forum.

[ShopSite David]

Support for Facebook Connect in ShopSite Pro Customer Registration was added in version 11 which was just released. More information can be found in the help documentation:
http://www.shopsite.com/help/11.0/en-US/sc/pro/cr.configure.html