Summary

This Plimus service update issued on August 9th, 2009, contains fixes and improvements to provide greater usability, security and reliability for users of the Plimus control panel and online commerce system.

What’s New in this Update? 

New Payments Processor: Payvision  

An additional payment processor, Payvision has been activated within the Plimus system, and this will offer an additional automated payment credit card processing channel for customers purchasing from the USA.

Information Link Element  

This element, on the home page of control panel provides links to major service announcements.

Russian User Interface

Textual improvements to Russian control panel interface make the control panel account page easier to use for Russian language users

Affiliate Notification by Mail  

In order to avoid a surfeit of emails, affiliates can now opt (from the main settings dialog) whether to receive notifications regarding changes relating to affiliate products. The new default is now not to receive such emails.

Control Panel Interface  

Newsletter list pages now allow viewing and sorting by Date Sent, Date Created, Items Pending, and Processing columns.

Recurring Charges 'advanced' panel has been amended slightly to clarify the need to activate authorize only and add a Buy Now reference when offering an initial free trial period. The interface also makes clearer that when a customer pays by credit card the first payment charged is based on the recurring and not the initial sum.

Contract Set Up 

CD on Demand set up controls: these are now also available for Promotion contracts enabling Vendors to offer a back up CD for such items.

Post-Sale Transaction Emails 

Custom fields information is now included in post-sale emails.
A translation problem on emails relating to Armadillo-based post-sale notifications has been corrected.