Customer newsletter sign-up module?

Does anyone know of a module or work-around so a visitor can sign up for the newsletter only? i.e a form on the home page which automatically adds a customer Name and Email address ONLY (without all the other validation etc) so I can build a mailing list alongside my existing/registered customers?

Much thanks to all!

You can do it yourself by copying catalog\controller\account_create.php to (say) catalog\controller\account_subscribe.php
Then rename the class to ControllerAccountSubscribe, cut out the bits you don't want and then provide an introduction and link on the home page.

You will also need to provide your own language file and template file copied and renamed from the ones specific to account_create that are referenced from within account_create.php

You might want to add some logic to account_login so that your subscription only customers can upgrade to actual customers while still using the email they registered with.

Hi - I wanted to check to see if there has been any update since the last contribution to this thread.

The solution provided is a bit complex - Does anyone know if an "external" newletter (for non-account users) is in the works?

Copying and pasting files through ftp  is much easier to understand than delving deep into the code as has been suggested, especially the part about subscription only customers upgrading to actual customers while still using the email they registered with

Any help would be greatly be appreciated.

All the best,

-Ben

This sounds like a good idea for a sidebox module contrib.

I'll take a look

Sounds good Qphoria

I would be happy to donate a bit to the community for something like this.

All the best,

-Ben