marcelke
Thanks very much for this great component. A great way to mange updates and see the versions, differences and update without the need to un-install things first. Especially for modules, which need to be set up again most of the times after updating or when installing a new component you have to repair the menu items.
I hope you will keep on developing it.
Kind regards,
Marcel
Thanks Marcel. Glad it worked for you. Documentation for other developers to adapt this to offer their extension updates via their online repository is coming out soon. On the fly upgrades, backup, remote file comparison and rollbacks are now possible. We have started working to get it compliant with J! 1.6. We strive for remarks and bug reports, so as to improve upon.
This component is more than great! Easy to set up and easy to use. All in functionality like good bounce handling, statistics and not to forget the VM integration!
Support is fantastic. Some small issues in the beginning all solved at instant. If you have a problem: good and quick response and they really solve the problem.
I have worked with many components and its developers in the last year(s) and Acyba is in the top. These guys know what an newsletter components needs and how support is supposed to be.
It is not the cheapest but really worth the money.
Marcel
After a few days working with it this is my experience.
Negative:
Quite expensive.
No documentation at all;
No forum;
The component integrates with VM only with one phplist attribute (lets say: name). So if you use first-name and last-name this is combined and put in the phplist attribute name. If you want to address people in the newsletter only by first-name or only last-name it is not possible with phplist.
Poorly translated and fields are missing in the subscribers module translation file.
The subscriber module has a show / hide option. It works but the text is shown far out of the module. As far as I can see it has no css possibility and when you don't use show / hide the module takes a lot of space. No possibility to use a line of text before and after the input fields.
The text of the send button in the subscriber module is hard coded.
Integration on the VM checkout pages works but has a bad look.
Integration with Virtuemart uses three hacked files. With one click some files in Virtuemart are being stored safely and are replaced by the component hacked files in the Virtuemart component. The hack and un-hack works fine, however when you made changes to those files yourself (like I did in the ps_userfields) you loose your changes.
Positive:
The nice possibility to change translations in ALL the language file in the website.
Import subscribers from many other newsletter components (not tested by me due to no documentation on how to do this / set up the attributes in phplist).
Access phplist trough back-end. Just like with Extplorer.
Ajax module so subscribers stay on the page.
Installs fine and the possibility to install phplist from the back-end. Although the automatic download and install didn't work. The second option to download it first and upload install it through the component worked fine.
Pre-sales support is oke.
I have no experience with technical support yet. I raised a few tickets today and yesterday.
All together I think the component lacks of functionality and build-quality you get. Not good usable for the reason why I have bought it. To many hick-ups, no documentation. It took me many hours to find things out and improve things.
Kind regards,
Marcel









