Starting DAP 3.8, DAP has a new feature where you can ask DAP to always generate a pre-chosen, default password of your choice for all new members.
So all new users will be assigned the same default password, which they can of course change as soon as (or any time after) they login.
This is especially helpful for new users, if instead of DAP, you want a third-party service like Aweber to send out the new member’s “Welcome Email” which contains their email and password.
Since DAP is unable to pass the randomly generated password to Aweber, instead, you can setup a default password by going to
Setup > Config > Advanced > “If you want DAP to generate a default password for all new users, enter it here. If not, leave blank”
So if you set this password to say, “changethis“, then DAP will give out the same password to all new users.
Then, in the welcome email you configure at, say, Aweber, you would put the Aweber merge code for email id, and then enter this pre-selected password (because you already know what it is) into your Aweber email, like this:
Hello {!firstname},
Welcome to Example.com. You may log in to your member’s area at:
Email: {!email}
Password: changethisThank you,
- Admin from Example.com
And if you ever change the default password in DAP, don’t forget to also change it in your welcome email at Aweber (or 3rd party email service).
Also, don’t use the default password in any subsequent emails, other than the Welcome email (very first email sent to member through Aweber), because the member may have already changed their password by then.
WARNING: You must have also set up DAP/Aweber integration first before you attempt to do this.
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Is this workaround still valid or has DAP been updated to pass the unique user password on to Aweber?
Workaround still valid.
Can you set the default password only for individual products? Or is it a general setting for every product I offer within DAP?
>> Can you set the default password only for individual products? Or is it a general setting for every product I offer within DAP? <<
Sorry, no. It’s a global setting, not a product level setting.
Okay. Two questions:
With a generic default password set, can anyone who is not registered just enter an email address if they knew the password?
Any idea when the update will be ready for us to send a unique password within the Aweber welcome email?
>>With a generic default password set, can anyone who is not registered just enter an email address if they knew the password? < <
Yes. That's why it's not recommended.
>>Any idea when the update will be ready for us to send a unique password within the Aweber welcome email? < <
We have not yet looked into aweber apis and whether they support sending of password. But if they do, we will be able to support it within the next 6 months.
In using the workaround to have Aweber sign up user for DAP (and not the other way around) you gave sample text for the welcome email from Aweber. The following portion perplexed me:
—start excerpt—
Welcome to Example.com. You may log in to your member’s area at:
Email: {!email}
Password: changethis
—end excerpt—
Should that be a URL instead of email, since we’re telling them they may “login here”?
Just want to make sure I understand.
Yes, you need to add url of your DAP login page in addition to the email/password for login.
>>We have not yet looked into aweber apis and whether they support sending of password. But if they do, we will be able to support it within the next 6 months.<<
I would like to know as soon as this is available please, Veena! Cheers
I’d like to second Mick’s implied suggestion re: “the sooner the better” for being able to send a password via Aweber. That’ll be an important step for DAP.
Agreed. It all depends on what Aweber offers. We will look into it and if aweber supports it, we will try to incorporate it into dap 4.4.
Jeff, how are you currently getting customers’ emails who have just bought your product into your Aweber ‘buyer’ list? Are you using the DAP default password? Or offering another free goodie to entice them? Or something else? Just interested. Cheers.
Mick: I’m still trying to figure out which subscriber flow to use, which is why I’m hanging around these blog posts. i’m basically going to be running a sign up / affiliate program for a zero cost product, so no payment event need be part of the process.
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