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Membership validation can be utilized to
allow only Subscribers of your magazine to access secured content
on your web-site. Kable®
offers a system where by we will interface with your web site to
allow you to control the content that can be viewed based on the
user's subscription status at Kable®.
STANDARD FEATURES:
How to obtain a username and password
The subscriber can obtain a username and password in one of the following ways:
1) New Order - At the time the subscriber enters a new order on the web, they are also
prompted to choose a username and password to access web content.
A temporary
file is utilized so access can begin immediately after the order is placed.
2) Existing Subscribers - The sign-in page will allow the subscriber to enter their
account number. If they enter a valid account number, they
will be allowed access, OR they can check a box on the page, and choose a
username and password to be associated with their account number.
3) Customer Service - Customer Service can be directed to provide a subscriber with his or her user
name and/or password when contacted.
Log-in Page
The log-in page can be hosted in one of the following two ways:
1) Kable's standard log-in page can
be utilized.
2) A client's web development team can set up the client's home
site to have a userid and password box form which posts to a page at Kable's site.
Regardless of the method chosen for the sign-in page, Kable will return
control to a page on the client's home site with a flag set indicating if the user is a valid
subscriber.
Additional Gatekeeper pages
Forgotten password page. - This page consists of a lookup
by account number or username. An email is sent to the subscriber if the email address is stored on
the subscriber's record. If no email address exists on file, an error message is displayed directing the subscriber to customer service.
CONSIDERATIONS FOR SETTING UP GATEKEEPER:
1) File Format
a) Web content is available to ALL print subscribers.
b) Web content is available at no additional fee to all print subscribers. Tracking is done via the use of a demo field on the subscriber's
main file record. Valid values include: P - Print, B- Both Print & Web, or E-Electronic only. There does not HAVE to be a web-only edition.
c) Web content is available at additional cost to print subscribers. Tracking is done via the use of a demo field
on the subscriber's main file record. Valid values include: P - Print, B - Both Print & Web, E - Electronic.
Financials for web and print are combined. Separate web pages are set up for
each subscription type.
d) Web Only content is handled on a separate file.
2) Username/Password Size
Username: 30 / Password: 20
Username: 15 / Password: 10 (Specify if desired)
3) Expires (Grace Issues)
Access is allowed for 4 additional grace issues past expire.
The number of grace issues can be customized.
4) Bill-me-laters
The option is available to allow or disallow access to bill-me-later subscribers.
5) Credit Suspends
The option is available to disallow access to subscribers
on credit suspend.
6) Deletes
Accounts on delete are not allowed access.
This can be customized to allow access if desired.
7) Holds
Accounts on hold are allowed access.
This can be customized to allow or disallow access to specific hold codes.
8) Temporary File Retention
If the subscriber does not get added to the live file due to an invalid credit card
or address, access will be granted until the temporary record is deleted.
The default number of days for a userid and password to remain on the temporary
file is 30 days. This can be customized.
9) Information Sharing
Kable® returns a flag denoting the subscriber status based on the options listed above.
If additional information will need to be sent either to or from Kable®, please specify when requesting gatekeeper.
For additional information, download the membership validation documentation.
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