Vindicia Subscribe Essential Do It Yourself Integration Playbook
Project Playbook
During the course of this project, you will be using the on-line documentation, including tutorials and videos, along with our sample code and real-time technical support to integrate Subscribe into your operations. Specifically, you’ll be integrating Subscribe to your user store-front (including self-care) and your content management system. You may also be extracting data from Subscribe to feed your own data warehouse or ERP system.
Using Tutorials
The content and mode of the tutorials will vary based on the subject matter and expected audience but there is some common information contained within all tutorials.
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User Story - A one or two sentence description of the scope of the tutorial
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Use Case # - Unique ID for the tutorial (when you reference this number it helps us know where you are in your integration work so you can provide more targeted support)
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Estimated Completion Time - how long it should take the assigned resource to complete this use case. This is an estimate only of course and should be used as a guideline for project planning purposes
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Uses - What Subscribe components will be used to implement this use case.
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Completed By - What resource is expected to implement this use case.
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Pre and post-requisites - What needs to happen before this use case can be implemented and what are the results of this use case once it has been implemented.
Use the links in the table below to view a high-level description of the tutorials contained within each functional area. You will also find a link to view the detailed use cases/tutorials for each grouping. (throughout this article we will be using “tutorial” and Use Case” interchangeably)
Offer Management | Order Management |
Customer Care | Subscriber Self-Care |
Entitlement Management | Charging & Billing |
Financial Activities | Data & Reporting |
Note that some tutorials are for your information only. Others are designed to show you how to complete specific tasks in Subscribe such as run reports or reconcile cash. Other use cases will walk you through aspects of the technical integration you will need to perform to complete this project.
In all, there are a total of 63 Use Cases/Tutorials. In the table below you can see the number of use cases by user (aka “Completed By”). This may seem overwhelming at first but don’t worry, we’ll walk you through it.
Completed By | Count |
Lead Developer/Engineer | 34 |
Business Manager | 15 |
Customer Service Manager | 9 |
Finance Manager | 5 |
Feel free to refer to the Project Playbook often and if you find yourself in need of a little extra assistance or if you have a question you can seem to find the answer to feel free to drop us a line a support@vindicia.com.
Using the Project Playbook
To help you get started and to keep you on the right path we’ve sequenced the tutorials in the order that will allow you to get up and running on Subscribe in the shortest amount of time. Feel free to follow this plan or to comprise one of your own.
Each of the modules listed below will walk you through a prescribed set of tutorials/use cases. The modules are designed to be done in the order listed but you can skip any that do not pertain to your project.
Good luck and remember, if you get stuck or just need some additional information please reach out to us at support@vindicia.com.
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Unit 1 - Key Concepts and Best Practices |
Unit 2 - Subscriber Management |
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Unit 1 - Set up a basic subscription |
Unit 2 - Free Trials |
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Unit 3 - Campaigns and Promotions |
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Unit 1 - Subscriber Accounts |
Unit 2 - Subscription Upgrades & Downgrades |
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Unit 3 - Subscription Cancelations | |
Unit 4 - Payment method changes |
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Unit 1 - Customer Care |
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Unit 1 - Finance and Accounting |
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Unit 1 - Reporting |
Unit 2 - Data Extracts | |
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Unit 1 - Using PayPal |
Unit 2- VIP Subscriptions |
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Unit 1 - Seasonal Subscriptions |
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Unit 1 - Single-Use Products |
Unit 2- Single-Event Products |