Feature List - Spread The Word Magento Extension

Below you can find a list of features implemented in the latest version of the Spread The Word Extension for Magento:

General Information

• Localization support
• Magento Multi-Site support. Each store and website can have its own configuration
• Magento version 1.4.2.0 and above are supported
• Thought-through interface

Simplicity

• 3 simple invitation steps:
  Pick a service for importing friends
  Select friends to invite
  Send invitations

Invitation Page Overview

• Detailed information about the people you invited
• A possibility to apply the received discount to the shopping cart straight away
• A possibility to download information about the discount and use it later

Spread The Word Rules

• 4 work modes:
  Invitation Only
  Invitation Sender Gets Discount
  Invited Friends Get Discount
  Senders and Invitees Get Discount
• Separate discount configuration for manual invitations
• Separate discount configuration for the invitation sender and for their friends
• 3 discount types:
  Fixed discount (for any number of invited friends) 
  Dynamic discount
  Dynamic discount with predefined levels
• A possibility to assign percent and fixed amount discounts separately
• Service targeting: exceptions for certain services within one rule
• A possibility to create multiple exceptions for one service
• A possibility to change the discount type and amount for a service within a rule
• Targeting triggers are a date range, minimal number of friends or a combination of both
• Separate service targeting for friends and for the sender
• Conflict-free Mechanism that protects against rule configuration errors and suggests possible solutions
• A possibility to choose a rule for further use right from the rule manager
• A possibility to assign a rule to a certain Website or View right from the rule manager

Services

• Global social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Mailru, Yammer
• Global e-mail services: Google Gmail, Outlook Online by Microsoft, Yahoo
• Process LDIF and vCard address book files
• Set the maximum number of recipients for manual invitations
• Disable a service or the entire group of services
• Third-party plug-in support

Integration with Services

• Connection to all services via their API
• Users see correct problem description when the services are overloaded or when the API request limit is exceeded

Authorization & Security

• OAuth protocols for your customers to safely authorize in the services
• Customer's information protection

Interactive Visualization Reports

• Invitation Timeline Report
• Sales Performance Report
• Service Popularity Tree Map Report
• Statistics by Customer Type Report
• Rule Rating Report
• Involvement Report
• Each report has several levels of information detail, ways of data grouping, powerful filters and an option to see the trend

Mobile Devices

• Direct OAuth authorization links for mobile devices that don't support browser pop-up windows

Senders and Invitees Activities Information

• See if the invited people accept the invitations
• See if the invited people make purchases
• See if the invitation sender makes purchases
• See if the same people are invited several times

Short Discount Alias

• Replacement of real discounts with short alias
• Short alias tracking
• Short and real discount correlation manager
• Information about the short discount holder: whether it's a sender or a friend, discount amount, real discount code and the service used
• Quick search for a real discount using an alias, discount amount, service used, holder, etc

Invitation Stack

• Email invitation queue with detailed information about the service used, the discount type and sender
• Choose to send all messages instantly or with pauses to avoid server overload
• Possibility to automatically log out after sending all messages
• See detailed information about the sending process and messages left in real time (latest browser versions only)
• Possibility to send messages via Cron Job at the specified time or at certain intervals
• Partial message sending via Cron Job: choose the number of messages to send at a certain interval
• Pause, unpause, delete messages from the queue or delete only failed messages
• Requeue all failed invitations in a click
• Check discount expiration date before sending the message

Invitation Problem Manager

• Requeue all failed invitations in a click
• Detailed information about failure reasons
• Possibility to fix expired or deleted discounts and requeue the failed invitations
• Replacement of all erroneous discounts by valid ones

Access Level

• Define the extension access level: customers and visitors or customers only

Service Display Settings

• Set the number of services per line
• Choose how many lines to display
• Automatic pagination

Address book

• Possibility to select all friends by default
• Choose to highlight your customers in the list of friends
• Highlight friends who were invited before
• Option to see the friends’ profile pictures
• Show friends' detailed information including a link to their social network profile
• Alphabetize contacts:
  By store locale
  By customer's browser locale
  By the most common first characters of the friends' names
  By specified alphabet
• Instant dynamic discount calculation when choosing friends

Invitation templates

• Locale support
• Customize templates using Magento Transactional Email Manager
• Separate templates for email invitations and for personal messages in social networks

Personal Messages in the Invitations

• Customers have a possibility to add a personal message to the email invitations
• They can also customize the personal invitation template in the social networks
• Personal message length control

Invitation Process Verification

• Choose to exclude the existing customers from the invitation process
• Don't let the customers invite the same person twice
• Personal message length control
• Protection mechanism

Sending Invitations

• Send invitation messages in the social networks instantly
• Have a stack of email invitations to avoid server overload

Notifications

• An option to notify the store owner about new invitations instantly via Magento Notification Inbox or by E-mail
• Notifications about the approaching expiration dates for the discounts used in Spread The Word rules
• Notifications about expired discounts used in Spread The Word rules
• Notifications about conflicting rules and possible solutions
• Notifications when editing discounts that are currently in use

Account Generation for the Invited Friends

• A possibility to generate an account for the invited person and send login information automatically
• Delete accounts that haven’t been not activated after a certain period using CronJob or manually

Conflict-Proof

• The extension switches to the “Invitation only” mode if a rule configuration conflict is found
• It has a protection mechanism against sending expired or deleted discounts