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Payment Gateway E-xact Integrated
Shopify has now integrated with the Canadian payment gateway E-xact.
From the E-xact Transactions website:
E-xact is a leading provider of fast, secure and accountable online transaction solutions. Since 1998, we’ve been at the forefront of the emerging world of online exchange, with solid and secure transaction processing systems and superb customer service.
Special thanks to James Edward Gray II who contributed the code for this gateway to ActiveMerchant.
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Week of Discounts
Its been a week since we deployed the Shopify discount support and the reactions have been amazing. Its remarkable to finish a feature so many people have been waiting and lobbying for and we couldn’t have been happier with the feedback.
Some stats:
- over 200 discounts have been created so far
- Customers already saved about 1000$ using discounts across hundreds of orders
- There have been 91 posts containing the word discount on our forums in the last while
- The average discount code is 10.75 characters long
And some quotes:
“Oh yeah! Can’t wait to dig into it!” – Jared Burns
“Fu#$^&! awesome!!! That is all I can to say. Not only coupon codes, but a whole section for Marketing. Brilliant!!” – Dan Wright
“Thanks Tobi and team. We’re confident this is going to help our marketing efforts no end.” – Duncan Barret
“awesome!”, “fantastic!”, “yes yes yes!!”, “YOU ROCK!” ....
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Payment Gateway PaymentExpress Integrated
Shopify has now integrated with the credit card gateway PaymentExpress. PaymentExpress is an exciting gateway because it supports acquiring banks in New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
From the PaymentExpress website:
Payment Express® is a Visa and MasterCard certified solution, developed by DPS, which facilitates electronic payments seamlessly from multiple access points i.e. EFTPOS, Billing, IVR, CRM, Vending, MOTO (Mail Order / Telephone Order), Web and Wireless.
DPS, the company behind PaymentExpress, is not new to the business of payment processing, as they have been operating since 1997. They also service a myriad of huge clients including Air New Zealand, Air Pacific, Air Rarotonga, Freedom Air New Zealand, American Express, Bank of New Zealand, Westpac, and many others.
With the addition of PaymentExpress, Shopify customers in Asia and Oceana now have another excellent choice for accepting payments for their products and services.
Special thanks to David Jones who contributed the code for this gateway to ActiveMerchant.
Payment Gateway Cardstream Integrated
From Cardstream’s website:
Cardstream’s Global Payment Gateway enables Merchants to process, authorise, settle and manage card transactions 24/7. Card transactions can be processed online, by telephone or via laptop, PDA and mobile devices.
We are happy that we are now able to offer more payment processing options for our Shopify customers in the UK, and there will be more to come.
Endoborn
Discounts
We just launched discount code support for Shopify which was the most frequently requested feature. We took the opportunity to introduce a completely new tab to the admin interface called Marketing where we complied a wealth of information which we collected on our forums and while marketing Shopify itself.
Discounts form:
Marketing tab:
Enjoy the free addition and join us to celebrate on the forums!
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OpenID Support
Today we deployed an update which adds extensive OpenID support to Shopify.
OpenID is a fantastic technology which will make life on the web a lot easier for everyone by removing the need to remember different login & password combinations for each site you want to authenticate yourself to.
Since Shopify is all about removing inconveniences we thought its a great fit and decided to make it available to the many thousand Shopify stores we host.
With the recent industry support for OpenID many people already have accounts without even knowing it. For example your AIM account can be used as an OpenID account. Just enter the address openid.aol.com/screenname :
To get started, head over to the accounts screen in your Shopify admin, edit your user account and click “Use OpenID”. Of course we also offer OpenID for invited staff members and during initial account creation.
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UK Payment Gateway DataCash Integrated
From the DataCash website:
DataCash’s principal services cover the authorisation and settlement of all branded VISA, MasterCard, JCB, American Express credit cards and debit cards + local UK debit card schemes such as Switch and Solo.
- Outstanding real-time processing speed with average authorisation response times typically below 2 seconds
- Multiple card types, including bank cards, private label cards, Visa or MasterCard branded cards, American Express branded cards, non-PIN based debit cards, corporate purchasing cards and procurement cards
- Multiple currencies (120 worldwide)
- Multiple UK acquiring bank connections
- Unparalleled processing scalability and security
- Exceptional service reliability backed by 24×7 operations support
- Support for additional fraud prevention solutions
- Real-time MIS Reporting
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It's Showtime
The latest addition to the collection of Shopify themes is called Showroom and comes straight to you from the jaded Pixel labs. It is now available to all Shopify users.
It has never been easier or faster to have your own online store that features the latest in web technology like AJAX. You read right: users can add products to their cart without any page reloading whatsoever.
The customer can proceed directly to the checkout with a single click – bypassing the cart screen entirely. Showtime also introduces collection descriptions which allow you to display text & images related to an entire collection.
We set up a demonstration store called Fashionable Hats so that you can see Showroom live in action.
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Quote
ActiveMerchant 1.0.0 is now released. Hear those footsteps? That’s the sound of million Shopify clones coming your way.
—ninthspace