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inboundnow / retired-leads

Track visitor activity, capture and manage incoming leads, and send collected emails to your email service provider for WordPress
http://www.inboundnow.com/leads/
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Support for leads without email addresses #128

Open atwellpub opened 9 years ago

atwellpub commented 9 years ago

A customer has a telephone based form, no need for an email. Our current system checks to make sure that an email is present and the email contains a @ in it before it attempts to create a lead.

Here's the support ticket. Ideas welcome.

http://support.inboundnow.com/support/topic/leads-not-saving-in-list/

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DavidWells commented 9 years ago

Hmmm super edge case. Web leads have emails.

If we allow forms to create leads without emails it is going to cascade into problems elsewhere with conditionals all over the place where emails are used:

Places like automation, mailer, full contact, etc.

If a lead is willing to fill out a form with their personal phone number, you better believe they would be willing to give a lesser piece of information of email

DavidWells commented 9 years ago

email is also the title component of the wp-lead CPT if I remember correctly. I don't even think its possible to create a CPT without title