Is it possible to programme a loyality scheme using facebooks API?
August 30, 2011 4:47 AM Subscribe
Is it possible to programme a loyality scheme using Facebooks API?
As a company we have a facebook page which has a number of likes what we would like is a to have someone develop an app that uses our facebook API to show all those people that like us in our own backoffice/intranet system. Then each time that person visits our retail store we can select that person in our backoffice and manually allocate them say 100 loyality points this would then go off to Facebook and appear in there Ideally it would be good if this showed up in there news feed and would visiable too all their friends too..
Im unsure if that is possible so any help / advice would be appreciated
As a company we have a facebook page which has a number of likes what we would like is a to have someone develop an app that uses our facebook API to show all those people that like us in our own backoffice/intranet system. Then each time that person visits our retail store we can select that person in our backoffice and manually allocate them say 100 loyality points this would then go off to Facebook and appear in there Ideally it would be good if this showed up in there news feed and would visiable too all their friends too..
Im unsure if that is possible so any help / advice would be appreciated
Response by poster: are you sure? when ive liked big brands like uniqlo for example i see items appear within my news feed... I take it thats just me that sees that as i 'like' them?
posted by toocan at 8:15 AM on August 30, 2011
posted by toocan at 8:15 AM on August 30, 2011
PunchTab sort of has this ability. Visit the site that has it installed, get points. The only problem is that the person has to actively sign up. So you'll have to convince people to visit your site AND sign up using their Facebook info to get the benefits.
Nothing shows up in my news feed about visiting a site with this installed.
If you want to see it in action visit the site in my profile. There's a red ribbon image in the top left of the screen.
posted by theichibun at 8:59 AM on August 30, 2011
Nothing shows up in my news feed about visiting a site with this installed.
If you want to see it in action visit the site in my profile. There's a red ribbon image in the top left of the screen.
posted by theichibun at 8:59 AM on August 30, 2011
Just to clarify one thing, things showing up in your newsfeed is not the same thing as something posted to your wall. The newsfeed is people/pages posting on their own walls, not yours.
Whether it's possible or not, it may not be a good idea, and should at the very least be totally opt in. I wouldn't want my shopping habits exposed quite so literally. "Donnagirl bought boots from Zappos" (for example, of course Totally Hypothetical) would quickly overtake my Facebook existence.
posted by donnagirl at 5:43 PM on August 30, 2011
Whether it's possible or not, it may not be a good idea, and should at the very least be totally opt in. I wouldn't want my shopping habits exposed quite so literally. "Donnagirl bought boots from Zappos" (for example, of course Totally Hypothetical) would quickly overtake my Facebook existence.
posted by donnagirl at 5:43 PM on August 30, 2011
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posted by ella wren at 6:08 AM on August 30, 2011