Add a Purchasing System to Your Community Server 2008.5
At one time or another, almost all Social Networks and Organizational Communities have needed a way to collect a payment from a community member. Whether it’s for a ticket to an event, a t-shirt, a donation, membership dues, or a software license, there are often reasons that organizations need a way to charge members in their communities. Born out of this need, Couto Solutions’ Secure Checkout Building Block is ideal for organizations that want an integrated payment system, but don’t need all the bells and whistles of a full blown shopping system. Secure Checkout can help you in the following ways:
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Provides a Single Secure Checkout System for All Your Needs
- Provides everything from the shopping cart to the receipt
- Gives you the ability to create your own unique product types to be processed through this secure payment system
- You can purchase it once per community and use it with all Couto Solution’s Building Blocks that require secure payment processing
- Its credit card processing API is built on the provider model so additional processors can be added
- Allows you to collect extended data from a community user (Extended data includes all data needed for purchasing. For example: Real Name, Address, and Phone Number)
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Provides a Unique Automated Email System
- Associate an unlimited number of automated emails with each product and send them on checkout, days after a purchase, or months after a purchase
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Provides a Unique Contract System
- Create and associate unique user agreements/contracts individually on a per product basis or create a general contract that covers all purchases
- Community Members must agree to all individual product contracts associated with the products they are purchasing as well as all blanket contracts before they checkout
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Provides Many Add-On Options
- Directory Connect Add-On for Secure Checkout:
- Provide a permissions based, rich community directory search engine for seeking out other community members
- Create unlimited permission based search profiles
- Create permission based exports of member data
- Search for members based on geographic locations
- Community Promote Add-On for Secure Checkout:
- Create, print and email coupons
- Track coupons from creation to redemption
- Create multi-use or single use coupons
- Send coupon email blasts to community members