Hi Thomas,
I have some good news, but it involves some investigating on your part.
According to Aweber support, Custom fields are list- specific, rather than account-wide.
To clarify, if you were to come up with some custom fields for your Paypal customers' addresses (whatever paypal calls the field is what the field needs to be named in Aweber) theoretically that information will be passed to your Aweber customer list upon checkout, via the integration app.
You just need to find out how Paypal identifies these fields, so that you can match it in Aweber.
You might want to star here:
https://developer.paypal.com/d.....IOverview/
Let us know what you find out.
Thanks Steve,
That is mighty respectable of you to delve so deep into this quagmire when it's not even the platform you use yourself.
"For the people adding city info manually, you might just have to give up this data as someone bonces from list to list unfortunately."
I think John's got a way to handle this covered in the lesson in having Aweber email me notifications for each new subscriber and then file those somewhere. It's not automated but I can go back to look at which form the subscriber came in from originally, and then update it in my customer list in the ad-tracking field manually.
thanks again,
Thomas
Oh, no worries, Thomas. I secretly enjoy solving these types of problems.
Don't get me wrong, I have access to the MMM aweber account, but I tend not to play around in there if I can avoid it.
You're right about the notifications. However at that point the subscriber will be bounced to the customer list, so that email notification will not help you. You'll actually need to search your email account for the person's email address/ full name and see what the original Aweber subscriber notification says about any custom field data.
Just wanted to point that out. Do you follow what I'm saying?
Ideally though, you should consider contacting Paypal to see how you can use paypal's native address field in order to attach a custom Aweber field to the subscriber as they order. That way you get the mailing info sent along with the subscriber. That would make it really easy for segmenting people.
All the best.