E-junkie SupportIt is not possible to make that a default opt-in for Free Checkout, since we would have to make it that way for all 10,000 sellers using our service, most of whom would not wish to be regarded as spammers by buyers who didn't notice they were opting into a mailing list during checkout.



If you're using Free Checkout just for testing purposes and will actually be using PayPal Standard for live orders, then rest assured all buyers who checkout through PayPal would automatically be opted-in, since PayPal provides no method to opt-in or -out during checkout. Those buyers would still of course get the opt-in confirmation email from Aweber.

Instead of using our standard Aweber integration method which depends on the buyer deliberately opting-in, a more reliable solution would use the Payment Variable Information URL setting to send the order data to the URL of a custom script on your own server, which would then submit the buyer's info to Aweber. If you would need some help setting that up, we can recommend the competent, E-junkie-experienced developers listed in our directory here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/developer-directory.htm



As another alternative, have you considered using some combination of our Thank-you Email and/or Send Stored/Generated Codes features, to provide buyers with the call-in number and pass-code as soon as their payment is completed?

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.thankyou-email.htm

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.selling-codes.htm



If you want to continue trying to use our standard Aweber integration, you could add some custom text to the shopping cart, explaining to buyers that they must check the "Sign-up for product updates and newsletter" box during checkout. Just add the following lines to your View Cart code on every page, just before the "// -->" line in the standard code you obtained from Seller Admin:



function EJEJC_config() {

EJEJC_POSTCALL=true;

}

function EJEJC_shown() {

jQuery("#tdPmnt").attr("innerHTML",

"<b>NOTE:</b> You <b>must</b> check the <i>Sign-up for product updates and newsletter</i> box during checkout in order to receive instructions to access your seminar!");

}

Buy Now buttons bypass the cart and take the buyer directly to instant checkout for just one item at a time, so in that case there'd be no chance to show any message between clicking the button and reaching the checkout screen. You could, however, put a message on your own product page directly above or below the button itself.

Hi EjunkieGuru,



can I use the above code also with my "add to cart" button and not the 'view cart' button?



I only have one product and most buyers won't even use the 'view cart' button anyway because they checkout immediately after adding the product to their cart.



Thanks



p.s I think this info might be useful in the standard description on how to integrate Ejunkie and Aweber. It took me hours to find this thread and figure out why the Aweber mail wasn't being sent automatically!

The above code has to go into the View Cart button, it won't work if you try to put it into a Add to Cart button.



That doesn't mean that the buyer has to click the View Cart button for this code to work. The View Cart button code is what contains all the information to create the overlay cart that comes up when someone clicks the Add to Cart button, so even if a buyer never clicks the View Cart button specifically that code is being used. Just be sure that you include the View Cart button along with any custom code you've added somewhere on the page with your Add to Cart button and they will work together.