Marketing workflow advice

Hi there,

We intend to implement a workflow to build our directory where:

1. Partner user (with a discount code or other controlled access) will add unclaimed listings from the front end < needs to be the front end because we don’t want to be giving wp-admin access and they will want to be able to use the Social Importer

2. The new listing gets a full 1 year free pricing product – expecting the user (partner or contractor) uses a 100% discount voucher to do this

3. We use WPAffiliate to tie the user to the unclaimed listing

4. We market to the business added by the user via email to encourage them to claim the listing (and of course renew as a paid client in a year)

Issues with the workflow…

1. We have Paypal and Stripe – if you add a 100% discount voucher, the payment process still pops up with a $0 billing… Users will not want to add card payment details even if its for 0.

How could be allow this to be done from the front end so that any user or partner can be an affiliate and add listings for future claim for us (and share the revenue)

2. When a new listing is added, we’d like to inject the listing url and the email address associated to the listing into Mailchimp/Mandrill etc to help the process of automating the market mail sent to the business to ask them to claim their listing.

Any ideas on how we can achieve this?

I’d greatly appreciate any advice.

Many thanks, Steve.