App for Cloudflare (appforcf.com)

digitalpoint · Oct 5, 2023

App for Cloudflare®

appforcf.com

Nothing super interesting at first glance, but some things the site does...

Homepage builder

See homepage: https://appforcf.com

Telegram support

Login
Two-step auth
Push notifications

PGP support

Two-step auth
Encryption of certain things (see below)

Payments

Crypto currency payments without a third-party provider (running our own full nodes)
- Bitcoin
- Monero
PayPal API
- Webhooks, no IPN
- Advanced subscription management
  - Users can cancel their own subscriptions
  - Can do advanced things like start subscriptions that don't start until the future (up to 10 years out). Handy for something like, "Pay something upfront or trial, then 2 years from now a subscription starts.

Websockets

Push web page updates to the user if needed

Identity verification

Can optionally allow users to verify their identity
- Phone number verification done with Telegram
- Reads barcodes from ID automatically
- Updates page in realtime with barcode info via WebSockets
- Identity verification requests are sent to a review queue for approval/denial
  - If approved, the underlying documents are encrypted with a public key (private key is kept offline) because there are times we need to retain ID documents, but don't necessarily need to look at them often/on demand.
Someone that gets their identity verified gets a "verified" badge next to their username (or display name... see below).

Display name

Users can have a display name different than their user name (based on user group)... for example maybe you only allow people with verified identities to change their display name (pic above shows the display name as Shawn (with identity verified badge) and username as digitalpoint).

Other profile stuff

Cleaned up cometically
Granular as far as what is displayed and what fields users can use (user group permissions)
Users that are allowed to change "about me" can have those changes sent to a review queue before they are seen.

Marketplace

Fairly advanced
Integrates with XenForo nodes
Supports subscriptions
Supports licensing
Supports split-payments (allowing users to sell stuff and the site taking a percentage automatically)

Better flashMessage

Run this JavaScript in the console (do it a few times back to back) if you want to see what I mean: XF.flashMessage('Test message', 5000);

Blah, blah... other stuff too.

JordanH · Oct 7, 2023

Always been a fan of your work, and the custimizations you can bring to XenForo.

However, I have never been a fan of the use of extreme animations as you scroll a web page. TBF though, I've also grown tired of the subtle ones too

digitalpoint · Oct 7, 2023

Ya, it's all a work in progress. It's limited to the home page and I'm not really sure what I want to do exactly (possibly nothing). UI is not what I like... I like backend stuff. hah

Alpha1 · Oct 7, 2023

In the plugin you advertise the Pro version. But the link to purchase does not lead to a checkout/cart page, but to a login page. i.e. hitting a 'You must be logged in to do that' message on a XF login page and an inconspicuous register button.
IMHO you are giving the customer many steps to reconsider the purchase. Is this the current purchase process for a new user?

Go to product
Click Purchase
Go to Login page
Find and click inconspicuous Register button
Fill in registration form.
Go to email account and click validation link
Find product again
Click purchase again.
View cart
Checkout
Pay.

It seems to me that this will cause bad conversion. Do you measure a analytics funnel to see how many users abort?
Optimally it would be something like this:

Go to product
Click Purchase
View cart
View checkout, fill in details (or login) and place order
Pay.

Example:

All Plugins Bundle

Grab a pack of all Octolize plugins as a cut-price tailor-made limited offer for developers, agencies and freelancers. No strings attached, each plugin's 1-site subscription included.

octolize.com

I would like your WordPress plugin to be very popular and hope that you sell a lot of licenses to make it worth your while. IMHO its important to make the purchase process easy enough to so that sales can grow nicely.

digitalpoint · Oct 7, 2023

Alpha1 said:
In the plugin you advertise the Pro version. But the link to purchase does not lead to a checkout/cart page, but to a login page. i.e. hitting a 'You must be logged in to do that' message on a XF login page and an inconspicuous register button.
IMHO you are giving the customer many steps to reconsider the purchase. Is this the current purchase process for a new user?

Go to product

Click Purchase

Go to Login page

Find and click inconspicuous Register button

Fill in registration form.

Go to email account and click validation link

Find product again

Click purchase again.

View cart

Checkout

Pay.

It seems to me that this will cause bad conversion. Do you measure a analytics funnel to see how many users abort?
Optimally it would be something like this:

Go to product

Click Purchase

View cart

View checkout, fill in details (or login) and place order

Pay.

Example:

All Plugins Bundle

Grab a pack of all Octolize plugins as a cut-price tailor-made limited offer for developers, agencies and freelancers. No strings attached, each plugin's 1-site subscription included.

octolize.com

I would like your WordPress plugin to be very popular and hope that you sell a lot of licenses to make it worth your while. IMHO its important to make the purchase process easy enough to so that sales can grow nicely.

Ya, the underlying marketplace system I built does actually support registration-less purchases (I touched a little on it here). However, in this case, I think the problems it causes outweigh the problems it solves. There are a few issues, but the biggest is just the general support issues.

So let's say we let a user make a purchase and create a license... How do we offer them support when we don't know who they are? How do you allow them to later change the license (or allow them to recover a lost license if they misplaced it)?

One option I considered is automatically creating backend user accounts after the purchase is made with the email address, but there are some forms of payment that require ZERO info about the user (Bitcoin or Monero for example). So how do you help someone that you don't even have a clue who they are or if they ever even purchased something and they want help trying to recover a lost license? What if in the future the want to extend the support/upgrade license, but we don't know which original license it should be attached to?

The marketplace flow is probably not the final form... I just need to figure out if there are ways to make it better without sacrificing the ability to actually help customers. Like imagine if you could anonymously buy XenForo licenses... how would you expect XenForo (the company) to help customers when they aren't sure who the customers are?

But ya... I'm kind of in a "first things first" mode with the marketplace. I need to see if it can process a transaction/sale as it's supposed to first. haha After that, maybe the solution is to allow a guest user to pick a username/email/password on the purchase page (if they aren't already logged in), which would effectively handle the registration process in one go... But let's see if it can even process a sales first.. haha

80sDude · Oct 8, 2023

Love it. Looks great. I just registered.

JoyFreak · Oct 11, 2023

Looks cool. Will sign up.

RobinHood · Oct 11, 2023

Very nice. I think the 'Premium' link at the top of the home page needs to really bring you to the product listing page where you can see the price first, or somewhere that you can see it before committing to registering, as that's all I was really interested in when first clicking on it. Instead I had to go all the way to the footer to find the info link.

digitalpoint · Oct 11, 2023

RobinHood said:
Very nice. I think the 'Premium' link at the top of the home page needs to really bring you to the product listing page where you can see the price first, or somewhere that you can see it before committing to registering, as that's all I was really interested in when first clicking on it. Instead I had to go all the way to the footer to find the info link.

Ya 100% agree with that... there is a link to the product page above it in the header, but ya... I don't know why the purchase link is even on the home page. Not like anyone is going to purchase without looking at the product page. It's been fixed.

JordanH · Oct 12, 2023

I feel like your header content should be inside the container width of the page

To something:

digitalpoint · Oct 12, 2023

Ya, probably makes sense for those that want to use their browser at absurd widths.

Done.

Guess what I enjoy/am good at between:

Backend/code
Front end silliness

JordanH · Oct 12, 2023

digitalpoint said:
Ya, probably makes sense for those that want to use their browser at absurd widths. Done.

Guess what I enjoy/am good at between:

Backend/code

Front end silliness

Sillyness indeed, now the background image is also in the container

securedme · Dec 19, 2023

How can I get all these features?

App for Cloudflare (appforcf.com)

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