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Welcome to the Precision Computing Arts / Fastwebdev blog. We post interesting news about our "Cool Tools" web hosting and content management system. (Customers can set up and maintain similar blogs on any "Cool Tools" websites that they host with us.)

Thursday, 26 January 2012
Form 1099 not needed for Precision Computing Arts, Inc.Recently we were asked if we needed a 1099 from a customer. We are incorporated as Precision Computing Arts, Inc. and do not need a 1099






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Thursday, 01 December 2011

Unable to Charge Credit CardFor customers using our Precision Computing Arts / Fastwebdev website hosting system, here's some clarification about those "unable to charge credit card" messages that may occur during automated monthly credit card billing.

Each month, the automated system attempts to charge your credit cards for website hosting. Sometimes the first attempt fails, cards are declined, and customers receive an "unable to charge credit card" automated message. In all but a few cases in which the card truly is faulty, the second attempt goes through successfully. 

This "unable to charge credit card" message occurs occasionally and is no cause for concern, unless your credit card has expired or has other problems.

Please follow these steps to figure out whether outstanding payments exist for your website hosting account:

  1. Log into your system editor.
  2. Click My Account Info under My Account on the left-hand side of the page. (Or click My Account under My Account & Email in the middle of the page.)
  3. Click View Billing History.
    • If you see PAID next to the month, no worries, all is well.
    • If you do not see PAID, something may be wrong with your credit card information.

More Information about Credit Card Billing

Accounts are billed on the 1st of each month. If the card fails, the system attempts to reprocess the card on the 4th, 9th, and 15th.

  1. If the system is unable to process the card on the 9th, the account is disabled (website stops working).
  2. If the system is unable to process the card on the 15th, the account is cancelled (website and email stops working).

Disabled accounts can be reinstated by providing valid credit card information.

Still have questions? Please contact us.

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Tuesday, 20 September 2011
New order archiving featuresSystem Update: 4.19 - [08/25/2011]
Orders are now archived automatically in order to improve the performance of the order management area.
  • Order states of Completed, Shipped, and Cancelled will automatically be moved to the History area after 3 months. 
  • All other order states will automatically be moved to history after 6 months. 

Merchants can access these orders by clicking the History link in their order manager area or by entering the order id in the search field. 

Ecommerce reports still will reflect information for all completed and shipped orders even if the order has been archived. 

 

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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

What's New in System Update 4.19System Update: 4.19 - [9/8/2011]
Ecommerce account holders (merchants) can now set up an affiliate program. This feature enables merchants to set up a commission rate to be earned by the affiliates and banners for the affiliates to display on their websites. Orders created by visitors who reach the site via these banners will be tracked and an affiliate payment will be computed. Merchants can keep track of affiliate payments via their website admin.

How it works:

Merchants create an affiliate program with a percentage based commission via the Affiliates area in the Store section. They set up an affiliate commission rate and write up how the affiliate program works in the program description area. Then they add banners that the affiliates will have to choose from to display on their website.

Affiliates are created via the User Accounts system. This can be done via the normal user account to a group methods: manually enter the affiliate user, create a form that sets up the submission as a user in the group, or use the standard Create Account option.

Once the affiliate user is created, the affiliate logs in via the My Account area and clicks the Affiliate tab. They can see details of the affiliate program and grab HTML to display the merchant's banner on the affiliate website. Sales completed by customers who reach the site by clicking the banner will be tracked and commissions will be applied to the affiliate.

The merchant can view the amount owed to the affiliate and register a payment by finding the user in the user accounts area (Affiliate group) and clicking the Affiliate tab. The merchant still must send the payment to the affiliate.

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Friday, 09 September 2011

Fraudulent Digital Certificates - Visit Microsoft Website for DetailsMicrosoft is aware of active attacks using at least one fraudulent digital certificate issued by DigiNotar. A fraudulent certificate could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks against all Web browser users including users of Internet Explorer. This issue affects all supported releases of Microsoft Windows.

Typically no action is required of customers to install this update for supported releases of Microsoft Windows, because most customers have automatic updating enabled and this update will be downloaded and installed automatically.

For more information, including how to manually install this update, see Microsoft Security Advisory (2607712) at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2607712.mspx.

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