Gift accounts linked through Facebook

Rev. Wayne Paul Barrett
Rev. Wayne Paul Barrett Member Posts: 62 ✭✭
edited December 2024 in English Forum

I have a suggestion for gift cards/gift accounts: Since a primary issue with an online gift account system seems to be not wanting to give out our Logos User Information to other people, could it be possible to use our Facebook identities to link to our Logos User Information and have a Facebook widget/app where people could add money to a gift account for us? That way anyone we are Facebook friends with could potentially add money to that gift account?

 

 

 

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  • Lynden O. Williams
    Lynden O. Williams MVP Posts: 9,012

    Another option, since many do not have a facebook page, is to tell the individual your logos id "email address" and have them call Logos and place money on your account, or tell your sales rep, to keep a list of books that you desire, and he/she can then tell the giver the price range of your books, and the individual can choose what they are willing to pay for, and when you open up Logos, "purprise" (that is how my 5 year old pronounces it) the book starts to download.

    Mission: To serve God as He desires.

  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 3,069 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/269404#Comment_269404

    I had asked Bob Pritchett about gift cards and such before. It is already on their wishlist. I'm not sure about Facebook. 

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  • Rev. Wayne Paul Barrett
    Rev. Wayne Paul Barrett Member Posts: 62 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/269415#Comment_269415

    Lynden,

    I have had people give me gift certificates by calling Logos and just having them search for my name and some location info, and the Logos staff was reportedly very helpful. That is not the issue.

    The issues, as I see them: 1. When someone purchases you a gift certificate, it shows up on your orders under your account, which is highly unintuitive and frankly, illogical. I didn't buy it; it's not an order I placed, it's money that I can spend ON an order. 2. I, and from what I've read, Logos, do not particularly want my or anyone else's unique Logos ID out there for public consumption. There needs to be another identifier that allows Logos to link the money given to the person for whom it is intended. People need to be able to go onto the Logos website, locate the user they want to gift money to, and pay for that gift.

    I should be able to then use that gift money very similarly to how I use a Gift Card or an allowance within iTunes.

    Actually, I think that iTunes is a great model for how to do this. Just let someone give me a unique code that unlocks the gift amount. Logos already knows how to do "unlocks"; just extend this to "unlocking" a gift card.

     

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