Paypal Scheduled Maintenance

Author storesecured Posted on January 27, 2009Categories Third Party Notices

[1] Scheduled: This notification is to inform you of the following maintenance activity. – From Jan 29, 11:05 PM PST (Jan 30, 7:05 AM GMT) to Jan 29, 11:35 PM PST (Jan 30, 7:35 AM GMT) most of PayPal site features will be unavailable with the following exceptions: 1. Website Payment Standard (Account Optional payment flow only) 2. Express Checkout 3. Direct Payment 4. Risk Controls 5. IPN will be delayed. – From Jan 29, 10:30 PM PST (Jan 30, … Continue reading “Paypal Scheduled Maintenance”

Ways to increase your sites conversions (part 2)

Author storesecured Posted on January 22, 2009Categories Hints Tips and Tricks

Continuing our series on how to increase conversions this article will cover increasing conversion through the use of unique content. Tell people what to buy. If you sell multiple different types of a certain product tell them which one is the best and why. Use your personal experience to help your clients get over the tough questions. Give folks the information they need to decide what to buy. A buyers guide has been shown to increase conversions by up to … Continue reading “Ways to increase your sites conversions (part 2)”

New Features 1/21/2009

Author storesecured Posted on January 21, 2009Categories Features

Added CAPTCHA bot verification to contact us and custom form pages to verify that a human is completing the form and reduce automated spam. For all custom forms created from design–>forms, the CAPTCHA will be added to the custom form when any change is made to that form by the merchant. If you wish to have the CAPTCHA added immediately just go in and re-save one of the fields on the form and the CAPTCHA will be added. Click here … Continue reading “New Features 1/21/2009”

Ways to increase your sites conversions (part 1)

Author storesecured Posted on January 20, 2009Categories Hints Tips and Tricks

There are a variety of ways to increase the conversions on a website. This article will go over a few things that you can do to build trust. Remember that online you only have a few minutes to make a impression and get your customers to trust that you are a reliable merchant. Include a link to view the shopping cart or a mini cart object in the template. This allows your customers to what is in their shopping cart … Continue reading “Ways to increase your sites conversions (part 1)”

FedEx Service Interruption

Author storesecured Posted on January 14, 2009Categories Third Party Notices

Dear Valued FedEx Customer: Please be advised that there will be a temporary service interruption on Jan. 17, 2009 due to system updates and our quarterly corporate load. Customers using FedEx Web Services, FedEx Ship Manager® API and FedEx Ship Manager® Direct solutions within our production environment will experience interruptions during the following times: Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009: All systems and services will be interrupted beginning at 9 p.m. CST until 10:30 a.m. CST on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009. Please … Continue reading “FedEx Service Interruption”

Paypal Maintenance Notice

Author storesecured Posted on January 8, 2009Categories Third Party Notices

[2] Reminder: This notification is a reminder about the following upcoming activity scheduled for Jan 08, 11:00 PM PST (Jan 09, 7:00 AM GMT). Please note the new end time of Database Maintenance is Jan 09, 12:00 AM PST (Jan 09, 8:00 AM GMT), but there is no change in the end time of Batch Processing release time. (Sent Jan 05, 5:00 PM PST by KD) SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE DETAILS ——————– Service: Live Site Affected Product(s): – Order Management (IPN / … Continue reading “Paypal Maintenance Notice”

Introduction

Author storesecured Posted on January 8, 2009Categories Introduction

This blog is a place for StoreSecured clients to get important information about scheduled maintenance, new features, tricks and tips and third party notices etc from our integrated partners. We recommend that StoreSecured merchants subscribe to this blog to always be alerted of new postings and important information. Note that this blog replaces the announcements area for all new information and no further announcements will be posted in that area.

All about CAPTCHA

Author storesecured Posted on January 7, 2009Categories Features 1 Comment on All about CAPTCHA

What is CAPTCHA? A CAPTCHA system is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.  The process involves the server asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade.  Because other computers or bots are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct response is presumed to be human.  The StoreSecured CAPTCHA system requires the user to enter a … Continue reading “All about CAPTCHA”

FedEx Scheduled Service Interruptions

Author storesecured Posted on January 7, 2009Categories Third Party Notices

Dear Valued FedEx Customer: Please be advised that there will be temporary service interruptions in January 2009 due to system updates and our quarterly corporate load. Customers using FedEx Web Services, FedEx Ship Manager® API and FedEx Ship Manager® Direct solutions within our test and production environments will experience outages. The FedEx test and production environment is scheduled to be unavailable during the following service interruptions: Saturday, Jan, 3, 2009: Tracking services will be unavailable beginning 9 p.m. CST until … Continue reading “FedEx Scheduled Service Interruptions”