Please note the following scheduled maintenance notice affecting all StoreSecured merchants Date and Time Friday 9/4/09 9:00PM PST Duration 3-4 hours What will be affected Stores Manage Interface What will my customers see? A maintenance message will be displayed to shoppers. What is being done? We will be applying updates to the database server
Sales website to be updated
Posted on August 31, 2009Categories Important ChangesThe design of our sales website http://easystorecreator.com will be updated within the next week. A picture of what the new homepage will look like is included below for your reference.
List Views Enhanced
Posted on August 29, 2009Categories Features, Important ChangesThe following pages have been updated to include the following enhancements Pages: -Design > Links > View Edit -Design > Pages > View Edit -General > Taxes > View Edit -Shipping > Locations > View Edit -Shipping > Methods > View Edit -My Account > Admin Logins > View Edit -My Account > Block IPs > View Edit -General > Domain > View Edit -Marketing > Banners > View Edit -Marketing > Affiliate > Banners > View Edit Enhancements – … Continue reading “List Views Enhanced”
File Manager Thumbnails
Posted on August 29, 2009Categories FeaturesThe file manager has been updated. You can now create thumbnails at the same time that images are being uploaded. Go to Design–>File Manager–>Upload Choose the files you want to upload Check the box to create thumbnails Click on the button to upload the files Your files will be uploaded an thumbnails will be created for each one
Best Practices for Images
Posted on August 25, 2009Categories Hints Tips and TricksOptimize all images for the web to a maximum of 90% quality. This will make the image filesize 50% smaller, load in half the time and take up less bandwidth, all without sacrificing quality or image size. Dont use any special characters. Use only a-z, 0-9, underscore and dash. Special characters can cause problems with some older browsers and are not worth the trouble. It is not a good idea to use spaces, quotes etc in image names. Use a … Continue reading “Best Practices for Images”
Image Manager Updated
Posted on August 21, 2009Categories Features, Important ChangesDesign–>Files/Images is now Design–>File Manager. The page has been expanded and upgraded to allow for more functionality and easier viewing of more files. New functionality includes: Ability to choose which folders and/or files to make thumbnails for Ability to move multiple files from one directory to another Uploading of multiple files at a time as many as you wish Ability to delete multiple files or folders at once
Departments page updated
Posted on August 12, 2009Categories Features, Important ChangesPlease note that a new department management page has been added to the store admin. The new page has the following enhancements: Department import and export data format updated. Import can now be scheduled for a later date or to occur at a regular interval for easy automatic updating. Import can now be done from a url or by uploading a file. Imports can now be done with only the required fields, all optional fields are not required to be … Continue reading “Departments page updated”
FedEx Outage Communication
Posted on July 22, 2009Categories Third Party NoticesPlease be advised of the following important announcement from FedEx. Between July 13, 2009 and July 15, 2009, FedEx Ship Manager® API and FedEx Ship Manager® Direct customers may have been impacted by rating incidents which were caused by an issue with a hardware device. While the hardware device was not in a “failed state,” it was causing sporadic problems with the transaction stream. Please be assured that FedEx is taking this incident very seriously. We regret any inconvenience that … Continue reading “FedEx Outage Communication”
Authorize.net Status
Posted on July 3, 2009Categories Third Party NoticesAccording to Wikipedias website we have found the following information regarding the current downtime: On July 2nd, 2009, the entire web infrastructure for Authorize.net (main website, merchant gateway website, etc) went offline a few minutes before midnight Pacific Time. None of the over 200,000 merchants who use Authorize.net payment gateway were able to process credit cards. Authorize.net’s main corporate office and their customer service were closed due to the July 4th holidays in the USA. Reports from their technical support … Continue reading “Authorize.net Status”
Authorize.net gateway appears to be down
Posted on July 3, 2009Categories Third Party NoticesPlease note that at the moment the Authorize.net gateway appears to be down and is not processing transactions. ================================================= Requests to capture funds are not able to connect to authorize.net The authorize.net website is down And credit card authorizations and deposits are also not being accepted at this time ================================================= We have no further information from Authorize.net at this time. Please contact Authorize.net support for further information and an estimated time to fix the issue. You may wish to also … Continue reading “Authorize.net gateway appears to be down”