Getting Started

At Plum we strongly believe that one size does not fit all. Depending on your business goals we can work with you to adapt our product to fit your needs.

We provide a stepped approach to integration, from the basic installation all the way to seamless integration into your site. You can start tomorrow with step one, then get more sophisticated as you learn what your visitors like and want. Here are the three levels of customization offered by Plum:

1. Get a Group

Fast startup - with minimal costs and lots of upside, you can deliver a complete social sharing experience to your visitors. A Plum Powered Group can be up and running on your website in 48 hours.

Custom look and feel - with custom header, footer and sidebar functionality is customized making the Group a natural extension of your site.

URL masking - your custom Plum Powered Group can become a sub-domain of your main site.

2. Cut and Paste Social Features On To Your Website

Single sign in - We can integrate a Plum Powered Group with your existing registration system. If your site currently does not support registration, then we will handle registration for you.

Single profile - For sites that already have a user profile. Instead of creating a separate profile for the Social Group, Plum has APIs that make it easy to update the profiles if the user edits their profile on your site.

Widgets - Feature user generated content throughout your own site with suite of standard widgets. A great way to let your active users promote their own content on other websites, too. Included with every Plum Powered Group is the ability to let your users design and embed widgets into other sites such as MySpace, TypePad, WordPress and Blogger.

3. Become REALLY Social with Deep Integration

APIs - Create new social applications and deploy user content in innovative new ways. Using the Plum Platform's APIs your site can create a fully integrated social experience throughout. All Plum's applications are built on the Platform APIs. You can enhance, extend and customize Groups functionality on your site and write quick mashups, all using Plum's suite of REST APIs.

iPhone - Get own branded iPhone application, in the Apple iTunes App Store. Your iPhone application lets your users share, discuss and discover photos, notes and web pages with friends from their iPhone.