So, i'm already using the transaction and cancel hooks. However, this article does not give any guidance on how to discern that the transaction is from a brand new user. What param conditions would equate to a brand new approved customer?
I really wish you would add a simple http option in event hooks. Let us choose the conditions to trigger the http request and then use your templating language for placeholder vars in the http request body. SMS, other services, mmmmm.
#1 Posted by Marc Guyer Support staff on 01 May, 2012 03:44 PM
Hi Stephen -- Great to hear from you! It's quite a coincidence that you ask this question today. We're very close to releasing a major rewrite of the hook system. I'd be surprised if it doesn't meet all of your requirements. We're looking at less than a couple of weeks.
#2 Posted by Stephen Rhyne on 01 May, 2012 06:50 PM
Hey Marc,
Sounds great! However, I would still like to know if there is a $_POST condition I can use to determine a transaction is a new sign up? Perhaps a combination would suffice? I guess I could just keep the state on my side by setting the user to "pending" and then when the first approved transaction comes in just cross check with my records?
What do you think? Should I go with that?
Thanks.
#3 Posted by Marc Guyer Support staff on 01 May, 2012 10:21 PM
There's unfortunately not a great way to do that right now. You could compare the invoice billingDatetime to the customer createdDatetime but the hook doesn't give you that date for the customer. You'd have to pull the
customer/getfor the customer and get the date that way. If you pull that, you could just see if that invoice is the first one.Alternatively, you can wait for the new hook to be released. In it there is a
invoice[isInitial]bool. I recommend moving to the new hook when it's available anyway.Marc Guyer closed this discussion on 06 Jun, 2012 04:49 PM.