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By SAbow - Thu 3 Jul 2014
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Hi,
I have a customer requesting an email this item feature near all the social links on all item page. They want the item name, image, description and url and a place to insert a message and sent to a friend/or themselves.
Has anyone coded this feature yet or is it in the works for a newer version?
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By Paul - Fri 4 Jul 2014
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This is something we've looked at before. But to be honest, we're not big fans of 'recommend a friend'.
In our experience very few people use these because the feature varies slightly on each web site. The vast majority of people just copy and paste a URL to an email and send it to a friend, because this works out easier and simpler. Your email system will generally autocomplete your friend's email, a web site won't because it doesn't have the address already.
There is also the issue with privacy. Encouraging users to submit friends' email addresses to be entered into web sites used to be a very common way of building marketing lists, effectively subscribing someone to a list without their consent on the basis that a 'friend' thought some content there might interest them. While these days sites are aware of spam and privacy concerns and almost certainly don't retain the addresses or use them for marketing, there isn't really anyway to know for sure how the emails you submit will be treated. It's really better to encourage users not to submit friends emails into other websites.
That said, I know customers can sometimes be insistent. If that's the case, I am sure it's not really a huge thing to build a page to do this, maybe an hour or two.
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