I’m not familiar with InfusionSoft, but I looked it up really quick online, and it looks like it is more of a sales & marketing type of software? Pretty expensive and high-end, so I doubt that would be opening up their source code to other developers.
Does their system run on a WordPress foundation?
What type of integration would you be looking for? Seems like my plugin serves a totally different purpose than what they are doing.
I could always be hired to make a custom solution that integrates with your software if they are open to letting me view the necessary code and data structures. I’d have to know a lot more first to see if it’s even possible.
Also, I think some people are confused when they see “Member” in the name of my plugin. This is NOT a membership type plugin. It’s a simple directory list and contact form for Staff or Board members of an organization, company, etc. It is NOT designed to be a directory or contact form for WordPress site user accounts or for membership type sites.
Hi there, Rose and DBAR. I work at Infusionsoft and can weigh in on this.
Infusionsoft is a sales and marketing solution for small businesses. It offers decent features including CRM, email marketing, marketing automation and e-commerce.
Our software is not open-source. It’s not built on WordPress, either.
We have an API that customers can access and can be used to read and write to our database as desired. I don’t currently know of any known WP <–> Infusionsoft integrations that will do this.
That said, Rose, can you clarify what you want to do with Infusionsoft and this plugin? In the absence of the integration, you can use a Web Form to collect the person’s information, save it in Infusionsoft and direct the person(s) to any page you desire.
Let me know if you have any more questions on Infusionsoft. To learn more about the Infusionsoft API, visit http://help.infusionsoft.com/developers/api-basics.
Hi Joe,
Thanks for the info. It’s nice to know that you have an API, and, with a quick glance, looks like you already have a PHP SDK as well. So, that would certainly make things much easier if there is some kind of need for integration between my plugin and your system. I can’t really think of anything right now, unless any submissions from my plugin’s contact form are also sent to your system so the contact info can be added into your system for future marketing?
Unless I get a lot of demand for it, I think this would be a very low priority type of integration, and, more likely would end up being an add-on extension since the majority of users of this plugin would not need/want to integrate with your system.
Hi Rose,
That looks like something you would need to hire someone to custom program for you.
My plugin is a self-contained WordPress plugin, that uses custom post types for the “members”, and is not designed to fetch data from external sources.
If you want to hire me to take a look at the InfusionSoft API and try to create something like that, I may be able to do something similar. However, this would not be something I incorporate into my Directory plugin, since it would require a totally different data structure, and probably a different presentation method as well, and it wouldn’t be useful to the majority of people that my plugin was designed for.
You could always post this as a job request on one of the WordPress job boards. Assuming the InfusionSoft API makes it easy to grab all the data you want, it shouldn’t be too difficult to format that data and present it in a directory style table similar to mine or that link you showed me. You would just need to pay someone to do this, as I don’t think it’s something that would be marketable to the vast majority of WordPress users.
Thanks for the help. I was hoping I might find something that could be easily adapted to InfusionSoft, but I guess not 🙁
Oh, Well!
Thanks anyway!
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. The code that goes into doing something like this is MUCH more complex than you would think from what you see on the front end. What you need would require almost a complete rewrite of my plugin (several thousand lines of code) to make it work, so it would be best to just hire someone to create it from scratch.
I really don’t think you’ll find anything from existing plugins since you have a VERY specific need.
That’s the whole reason I got into programming my own plugins, because when I was (and still am) doing the volunteer work redesigning the PTA web site for my son’s school, I couldn’t find anything out there that exactly fit our needs. I found things here and there that did some of what we needed, but never in the right way, and they were always missing quite a bit. So, I just decided to dive in and start creating my own custom plugins. This is the only one I have released to the general public so far, since it is fairly generic and can be used for much more than just PTA web sites. I’ve added quite a few new features to make it more appealing for other sites, but it still has a fairly specific purpose, which is simply to make a nice looking list of all board members, officers, or staff of an organization (that an admin users creates) and a simple way to contact those people either by displaying their contact info or generating a contact form if you don’t want to reveal contact info to the public (or spambots).
