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PayPal Announces Temporary Interruption of Payflow Link Transaction Processing
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
PayPal has recently announced that it plans to migrate some of its resources, and, as a result, some of its services will be unavailable for a brief period of time on the morning of Friday, March 18th 2010. Merchants who rely on Payflow Link for their payment processing will be unable to process transactions via Payflow Link between 2:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. pacific time on 03/18/2011. Merchants utilizing Payflow Link are advised to disable their Payflow Link payment option and enable an alternate payment method such as Credit Card Payment With Simple Validation during the estimated downtime to continue processing orders and avoid generating errors during checkout. For more information about this issue, and the latest updates regarding the migration, please refer to PayPal’s official blog: https://www.x.com/view-blog-post.jspa?blog=1983&blogPost=4500
Google Web Hosting
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Google Web Hosting
Using Google web hosting as an interim measure
Google web hosting is a great way of creating free websites share information with friends and family. The whole point of a web hosting service is to give an individual chance to upload their own website to the Internet so that it can be seen by others also have a connection to the Internet. This latest addition to the Google brand is great way of creating complex and interesting websites without spending large amounts of money that many companies want in order to design a site.
A website allows individuals to publish their thoughts or knowledge on a public portal, and others who have access to the Internet can then search and find this information and view the page exactly as it has been designed by the author. With a single click publishing option, the Google site allows users to create websites from templates and upload files just that they would with regular websites, only the service is free and very easy to use, and with handy widgets and other integrated elements, the author to me a very professional looking website in minutes with little or no knowledge of web programming.
Although most large web companies already have their own websites and for some, in-house programmers and IT specialists along with their own server room for secure and powerful hosting, smaller companies may not have the funds to set up this kind of system. A website gives the company chance to branch out and peeled to more customers and like-minded individuals, and without a website many companies miss out on a huge chunk of profits. Google web hosting allows these companies a simple and affordable option to bridge the gap between complete Internet invisibility and having a fully integrated powerful website that caters to their every needs. The solution offered by Google is by no means complete, and is definitely not a replacement for a well-designed company websites, but it does offer some flexibility for those who need to get information out onto the Internet, and templates offered by the hosting service.
Web those being accounts normally cost anything between $10 and $100 month, and accounts on dedicated servers with specialist hardware and software can cost even more than this. This is why it is wise for a company to make the decision carefully about what kind of web hosting they want to opt for. When he comes to make website quickly in the interim, Google sites service can help the company get up and running without risking any money on hosting contracts and web designers before the company knows what they want from their provider. Creating a Google site is a great idea as a test run for any ideas they may have, and trialing these ideas with their audience can give feedback that can help when designing the permanent website. It can also help the company understand the importance of having a decent web page that is easily accessible to the current clients and also potential new clients.
Free Shopping Cart
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Free Shopping Cart
Implementing a free shopping cart; the benefits
Developing a web interface for a store can be very complex, and those who have never done this before might find the project challenging, and may realize that there are certain aspects that they have no idea about, including taking payments securely from customers. Online shopping on the Internet is becoming a normal process for many, and most large grocery stores and fashion outlets allow shoppers to browse and buy full baskets of goods without leaving their home. Most people who use the Internet on a daily basis have purchased an item at some point in their lives from an online store.
Those programming a website often need a way to take money from their customers for their products. When the Internet first started trading with individuals, the only way to take payment for goods was to provide bank details to the customer who could then make a payment from their bank, quoting a reference number so that the company knew which products and orders it was in relation to. This process took a very long time, and the only people using the Internet for buying products were generally wholesalers and those who have a lot to benefit from going through the arduous process to trade online. When the company PayPal started trading on a global scale, they created the idea of a free shopping cart to add to websites that can accept payments from all different types of countries and convert it into one easy way to pay for goods. The inception of this online payment scheme changed the whole idea of Internet shopping. A PayPal account now allows the user to assign bank details to a certain secure username, so that these bank details never need to be shared again outside of the PayPal website. Instead, users provide an encrypted username and password to the vendor and accepts terms and conditions that use the vendor permission to take is stated amount out of the PayPal account, and if funds are not available in the PayPal accounts, this money is then taken straight from the bank.
Store websites have to make sure that all of their processors works perfectly, as consumers online are much more picky than consumers in the real world. If a website is not functioning properly, or does not load in an adequate amount of time, consumers will have many other options for their shopping online. Online stores no longer have browsing time to win over the consumer, and because of this many companies invest great deal of money making sure that their website functions perfectly, is very enticing to the consumer and has a flawless system for taking payment that almost all of their consumers will be able to use. Implementing the use of a free shopping cart can help many create and run a website capable of turning over a profit with little start-up capital required for the entrepreneur. This is an important factor the start-up of many small businesses and can help many.