We’ve got another client and this time its a car distributor, Naza Peugeot Malaysia to be precise!

They have just won the Peugeot distributorship for Malaysia and would like to gather the details of all current Malaysian Peugeot owners. So part of their strategy was to create an online form where these owners could key in their info.

Since we already did something similar for Dreamgirls, this should be cakewalk. Of course we had to put in an extra item for this form. Car details.

Why I call it extra is because we initially used our custom fields for this and realised, “hey arent people allowed to own more than one Peugeot car?”.

So that’s why we had to add a special Car Details fields group for them, much like how we did it with the addresses, which is a standard ezypzy contact field group.

As usual, we also tagged the online registrants as ‘online’ and on top of that, we also tagged them according to their car model so that Naza would be able to quickly list out all contacts who owns a particular model.

So right now we just need to add in the Export Contacts function, and Naza should be happy with our service.

Ahh yes, back to the Malaysian Dreamgirls. Progress on this has been quite disappointing actually, partly because there are so many bloody holidays in December and I’ve personally been quite intoxicated this month.

However the more technical setback was the fact that the Dreamgirls team kept changing their audition form fields. And on top of that, they wanted some really custom fields like Height, Weight, vital stats and etc. So what did we do? We gave them custom fields! Wooohoooo!

So basically we told them, if you decide to change the form again, just change the custom fields. The custom field feature was not too hard to do since we’ve already done it for the Listing module. They have pretty similar stuff, for instance you can create various contact templates that have a list of different custom fields.

In other words, you could have a contact template for your vendors, another one for your customers, another one for your employees, another one for the hot Facebook chicks you’ve been stalking when you can’t sleep at night (oh wait, that’s just me I think). Anyway you get the idea.

Just started to work on the long awaited Import Contact feature. And true to our “lets try to do this differently” mantra, we let you import from vcards, Outlook and even your Yahoo, Gmail and MySpace addressbook. Awesome Blossom feature again!

After this we’ll add Importing from CSV & Excel file.

So at the moment there are a few ways to get contacts into your Contact list:

- Click Add Contact and add them individually (pain in the arse if you had more than 50 contacts)
- Use the Import Contacts feature mentioned above.
- Click on the Reports tab and convert your mobile Leads to contacts with just one click.
- Create a publicly accessible online form for your contacts to key in their details themselves. A much asked for feature by our beta testers.
- Think of a contact in your head and it magically gets saved in your ezypzy contact list (we so wished we could do that for you ).

Managed to improve the Contact List search function a bit this week by adding in the Live Search feature, where the server gets search results as the user types in his/her search request.

So for instance, here’s the contact list:

And as I type in “sh” in to the name search box, the server immediately displays contacts with “sh” in their names right below.

Is that cool or what! But after the search result is displayed, the cursor seems to stop focusing on search box, and the user has to click in the box again and continue typing. BLEH! Will fix that later.

We have had our first official client in Monsoon Cup Terengganu. So basically they went from beta tester to paying client within two weeks. Awesome Blossom!

They loved ezypzy so much that they are subscribing to it for the entire 2008

This is pretty interesting. Got a call from a close friend’s brother recently about helping them out with their upcoming website, www.malaysiandreamgirl.tv, which is pretty much an online reality model search series. First of its kind in Malaysia.

We of course jumped at the opportunity to work with them… for obvious reasons >:)

Anyway, started off by helping them source and set up their streaming server. I tried out the Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server, but it was a bitch to set up, so I scrapped that. So we went with the Wowza Media Server instead, which was easy to set up, easy to configure, streams flash videos smoothly and best of all, super great support. I emailed them regarding some problem and got a reply within the day (thanks Charlie!).

So after getting the streaming server up and running, they wanted to do an online audition and newsletter subscription form. That’s when I introduced ezypzy to them. Because in essence, those who are auditioning for the show are Dreamgirl’s contacts, so are their newsletter subscribers.

So we suggested to them that we could make a publicly accessible version of Dreamgirl’s Add Contact form and whoever registers through this form, they will be automatically added into Dreamgirl’s ezypzy account’s Contact list and tagged as ‘online’, so that they know exactly who registered online.

As for the newsletter, same concept with the audition form, except newsletter subscription form only has one field.

The other feature we would need to add would be a special subdomain for individual ezypzy users. So for instance, Dreamgirl’s online forms will only be accessible via http://dreamgirl.ezypzy.com.my/ (subdomain follows the username) .