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Hi Peter,

I haven't installed your product yet because I'm trying to work out if it is the right solution, so I have some questions that I couldn't find answered elsewhere.

Same as Karl I am using Easy Digital Downloads with Astoundify's Crowdfunding Plugin with Fundify Theme. Your collaboration emails plugin sounds fantastic, but I'm not sure if it will work properly with this set up. For reference my website is http://www.villageraised.com.

So I have a platform, where I am user role 'Admin', and I have two types of users that are not given access to the Wordpress backend but interact on the front end. Both of these users are given the default user role of "Campaign Contributors" by the plugins.
a) Campaign creators: these people create & edit their "campaigns" via a form on the front end. Once they are happy they submit it for review (which then places it into the "pending" list on the backend for Admin to review).
b) Supporters: these people pledge money to the campaigns. It is a delayed purchase process where they input their payment vial PayPal Pre-approvals but the payment is not processed until later, eg 30 days later. Currently invoices are being sent out at that second point rather than the first.

My initial question is about the link that is emailed to the author when they need to make changes: is this a link to the campaign on the backend (which they don't currently have access to and I don't want them having access to) or will it take them to the form in the front end?

My second question stems from what I saw Karl ask. Is it correct that if I use your plugin that it's not just the author that is notified, but then also every person who pledges to the campaign will get an automated message as if they were the author? Is there no way to separate out these two different types of user?

Basically the solution I want, and will likely have to use more than one plugin to achieve (or find no solution):

PART ONE - YOUR PLUGINS MIGHT WORK
1) Campaign Creator (which currently has user role 'Campaign Contributor' as a default) creates a campaign via the front end, and submits it for review.
2) 'Admin/Editor' receives notification of pending campaign. Reviews the campaign, and then either:
a) Accepts it by pressing "publish", or:
b) Changes it back to draft for changes, and adds note (Peter's notes)
3) Campaign Creator receives email, either:
a) notification their campaign has been approved, date for publication, front end link it will be at, or:
b) notification their campaign requires changes with notes and front end link to edit it

PART TWO - USING OTHER PLUGINS
4) Supporter (which currently has user role 'Campaign Contributor' as a default) pledges to a campaign. They receive an email with a message that thanks them for supporting that specific campaign & confirming pledge details.
5) Campaign Creator receives an email notifying them of details of the pledge including supporter contact details.

There are lots of plugins that purport to do part of the job, but complications occur with how my website works - so I would appreciate if you could give me your advice in relation to your plugins. Also, for Peter's Notes are these notes only viewable via the backend of would an author be able to see them via email and link to front end?

Thanks for your help,
Luci

BTW I had trouble with the login process of your forum. I registered but then logging in kept redirecting me to logged out status. Also, I wanted to post this comment under Karl's because that seemed more relevant than starting a new thread but there was no option to reply or create new post under it.

Thanks