nopCommerce is now MW compatible!

Thanks to the efforts of maxut, customers using the nopCommerce e-commerce solution can now accept payments with Merchant Warrior.

“nopCommerce is new but very popular open source e-commerce solution. nopCommerce is available for free. A solution with comprehensive features that is easy to use for new online businesses, yet powerful enough for the most demanding e-commerce expert. It’s a secure, scalable and extendable e-commerce platform.” – nopCommerce

nopCommerce boasts a mass number of features within an open source platform that is PCI DSS compliant.

The nopCommerce module for Merchant Warrior is available here. The author mentions that only AUD and NZD are supported, however, if specified during your application process we can enable multiple currencies at your request.

Cool Gel Mat chooses Merchant Warrior

Summer is coming! And with that in mind we are happy to announce one of our most recent clients -  Cool Gelmat.

Introducing the Cool Gelmat, a special cooling mat that will provide users who struggle with heat issues with comfort and relief especially during the warmer months when many people find it difficult to get a good night’s sleep.

“Anyone trying to keep cool during summer will find relief with the Cool Gelmat, without the electricity bill,” says Nicky Buckley.

How does the Cool Gel Mat work?

The unique heat absorbing gel eliminates excess body heat allowing you to experience cooling relief for up to 2 hours, thus encouraging a comfortable night’s sleep and the opportunity to cool the body and fall asleep more easily.

The Cool Gelmat requires no electricity to stay cool or to recover its cooling ability, so you can enjoy instant relief again and again without ongoing power costs.

Cool Gelmat ambassador Nicky Buckley said the product is great for the whole family, especially during the warmer months; with rising electricity costs many families are wary of how much they switch on the air conditioner.

“Anyone trying to keep cool during summer will find relief with the Cool Gelmat, without the electricity bill,” Nicky said.

“It can be used not only when lying in bed, but also sitting on the couch, at the office, while travelling, or even while doing exercise such as yoga or Pilates.”

“The Cool Gelmat is quite outstanding. Anyone undergoing oncology treatment such as radiation therapy or experiencing the symptoms of multiple sclerosis may benefit from the Cool Gelmat’s cooling relief.”

What else do I need to know?

The Cool Gelmat comes in three sizes to accommodate different mattresses and a range of uses. These sizes include pillow size to target smaller areas like the head or feet, up to its largest size, which can fit two across on a king size bed.

Cool Gelmat’s manufacturing process is patented which means it is the only one that always stays flat and never goes lumpy – ensuring years of hassle-free cooling relief.

The Cool Gelmat is currently available from Chemmart, National Pharmacies, Pharmores Pharmacies, Bedshed, Snooze, Forty Winks, Sleep Doctor, Dreamland Bedding and Bedroom, Beds’R’us, Home Express, Sleeping Giant, Regal Mattress.

What is Bargains 4 Business?

Bargains 4 Business is the brainchild of Sydney-based advertising and media professional Mikel Kew. It is one of the first group buying sites in the market to focus solely on business-to-business sales. Their ultimate aim? To achieve huge savings for their Australia-wide community of business customers, while creating an explosion of new business for their suppliers. To learn more about how B4B deals work visit www.bargains4business.com.au

Why use Bargains 4 Business?

Building on the hugely successful group buying concept employed by Groupon, Spreets and Cudo, www.bargains4business.com.au has tailored the deal system to the needs of business customers to help them get back on track.

Bargains 4 Business deals bring customers extraordinary savings on business-related goods and services – everything from office cleaning and copy paper to top class chauffeurs – while delivering an explosion of new patronage to suppliers.

“CEOs, managers and purchasing officers shouldn’t have to sift through bikini waxes and pedicures to find great business deals like printing services and stationary supplies,” says Sydney-based Bargains 4 Business Director, Mikel Kew.

Unlike consumer driven sites our daily deals are selected specifically for their appeal to business customers”.

Businesses can no longer afford to take a risk with conventional “scatter gun” forms of advertising that may or may not hit their target. With group buying, suppliers only pay a commission on their resulting sales if target numbers of customers are reached and the deals go through.

“We are committed to featuring deals that achieve great value for both the customer and the business advertising the deal,” Mr. Kew explained. “We work closely with each supplier to carefully structure deals that are not only viable for their business, but also encourage additional sales and ongoing customer relationships.”

Australian enterprises need all the help they can get in the current financial climate, whether they are desperately trying to find new customers or diligently trying to reduce costs. B4B creates a win-win situation: business customers are guaranteed savings of at least 40% off essential products and services, while suppliers rapidly expand their customer base.

To further aid the business community Bargains 4 Business is looking for deserving businesses that need a hand to pull them through the downturn. If you know a business that offers top quality products or services, but is currently feeling the pinch, nominate them for our monthly “Deserve A Deal” promotion. We will reward their efforts with a free deal from one of our suppliers.

B2B with B4B!

Business to Business savings with Bargains 4 Business! We would like to thank Bargains 4 Business for choosing Merchant Warrior as their preferred Payment Gateway provider.

To receive offers from Bargains 4 Business, visit www.bargains4business.com.au and sign up for the newsletter. For a limited time subscribers will enter a draw to win an iMac desktop computer valued at $1,399.

Let’s face it. Developers make the Internet go round and round. We know it, you know it and developers really know it. Over the past couple of months our development team has been working on a number of new features that we will be introducing to our merchants shortly.

Due to the rapid influx of new merchants choosing Merchant Warrior as their Payment Gateway we have had an overwhelming increase in the number of integrations that we are currently performing. We are currently integrating with numerous shopping cart systems, CMS systems, custom billing systems and mobile solutions.

Our plan is to be integrated with EVERY possible system that is available to merchants and this is where we would like to call on DEVELOPERS!

Help us, Help You!

All Developers receive a FREE test facility for testing integrations.

We are now offering any Developer that can provide us with a module or integration to a system (shopping cart, billing, CMS – you name it!) that we are not already integrated with a 50% discount on our annual fee for the first year of processing.

We have always and will always be a Developer friendly Payment Gateway. We work with Developers globally and it is with their advice and requests that we have been able to provide our merchants with a Developer friendly Payment Gateway that is easily integrated into any billing system.

We know that without the continued assistance and support of our global platform of Developers we will not reach our goal of being integrated with every (and yes we mean EVERY) billing system available to merchants.

All of our development documentation is available via our Developer Zone.

Developers should contact us if they would like more information about our Developer benefits program.

It has definitely been a long time coming and an integration that has been requested by so many Australian merchants. Cart66 is an eCommerce plugin for the popular blogging software wordpress that enables merchants to “sell electronics, digital downloads, videos, music, web hosting, legal services, collect membership fees, and more.” – Cart66

Over the past few months we have had an overwhelming number of requests to have the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway integrated with the Cart66 plugin. The lack of support for an Australian payment processing option made the extremely flexible and popular Cart66 plugin unusable for many Australian merchants.

We feel extremely lucky to have been contacted by Dante Chichizola @dchichizola a senior web developer from Macintype Design who registered his interest in integrating the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway into the Cart66 plugin.

Thanks to the efforts of Dante an Australian payment option finally exists for the Cart66 plugin! The plugin can be found at the Merchant Warrior Developer Zone or by clicking here.

We will be contacting the great team at Cart66 to have the plugin available with the professional version of the plugin. We understand they are extremely busy but do hope we manage to get this merged into their development cycle in time for their next release.

CS-Cart v2.2.1 Release

We are happy to announce that the relase of CS-Cart v2.2.1 has support for the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway.

“CS-Cart is the best shopping cart solution for building an ecommerce website of any size: from a small web store to a virtual shopping mall. A ready storefront, support for many payment and shipping options, full inventory control, unlimited products, promotional tools, and other ecommerce software features out-of-the-box.” – CS-Cart

We have had a number of merchants request the integration of our Payment Gateway with CS-Cart and we are happy that CS-Cart has decided to include us in their latest release.

A full list of feature changes that are available in CS-Cart v2.2.1 are available here and here.

LemonStand now supporting Merchant Warrior

Thanks to the efforts of Sam Georges from Frag Networks the Merchant Warrior payment gateway is now supported in what is known as one of the most flexible shopping carts available – LemonStand.

The Merchant Warrior payment module is available to developers free of charge from the LemonStand market place which is a new addition to the LemonStand website that allows developers to contribute addons which can enable additional functionality to the base LemonStand shopping cart.

Direct link to Merchant Warrior Payment Module for LemonStand can be found by clicking here.

What is LemonStand?

The LemonStand shopping cart is best described by a phrase which can be found on the LemonStand website:

“eCommerce that doesn’t suck.” -LemonStand

The LemonStand shopping cart boasts a beautiful interface and flexible system which enables developers to easily implement custom shopping cart requirements.

Features

• Powerful Reporting
• Safe and Secure
• Content Management
• Designer Friendly
• Developer Friendly
• Marketing

There are several blog posts which could be written to describe the numerous features that the LemonStand shopping cart supports – please see LemonStand Feature List

Whether you are currently searching the market for the best shopping cart for your website or looking for a new shopping cart due to the lack of features in your current online store, LemonStand is an eCommerce platform that you will most definitely want to add to the list of products that you evaluate.

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Each year we have an onsite audit completed by our registered QSA (Securus Global) in order to ensure that all components of our payment platform including our business processes are PCI DSS compliant.

Tier 1 PCI DSS v2.0 – Certified!

In August 2010 the PCI SSC announced that the PCI DSS v2.0 would be published in October of 2010. A list of changes that have been made between PCI DSS v1.2 and PCI DSS v2.0 can be found here.

Thanks to the efforts of all staff we have been certified by Securus Global as a Tier 1 PCI DSS v2.0 payment gateway.

Merchants that take advantage of the Merchant Warrior payment platform can rest assured that all products have been thoroughly assessed and will continue to maintain the highest level of compliance.

The introduction of our Token Payments solution (including Tokenized Batch Payments), Transparent Redirect and Hosted Payments has aided a number of organizations in maintaining the highest level of compliance and reducing the costs that are associated with the PCI DSS.

We owe a great deal of thanks to the support that we have received from our acquiring partners (National Australia Bank, Westpac Banking Group, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited, Commonwealth Bank of Australia), our merchants and of course our QSA – Securus Global.

We know that it has been a long time coming but we have finally got there. Our merchants have been asking us for an integration module into the one of the world’s most popular open source eCommerce stores – Magento and finally they have it.

What is Magento?

“Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source eCommerce solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Magento’s intuitive administration interface contains powerful marketing, merchandising and content management tools to give merchants the power to create sites that are tailored to their unique business needs. Completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento offers companies the ultimate eCommerce solution.” – Magento

Magento & MW – How?

As those of you who have integrated with Merchant Warrior in the past will already know – we like to keep it simple. The Merchant Warrior Developer Zone has been updated to include a Magento 1.5+ module that includes instructions on how to install the module and enable your Magento shopping cart to accept online payments via the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway.

Merchant Warrior & Magento are a powerful combination that merchants should consider, whether they be searching the market for the right shopping cart or looking to take their current eCommerce platform to the next level.

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What are Batch Payments?

Merchant Warrior’s Batch Payments offers merchants a simple way to process a large number of offline or periodic transactions. If your business is processing large volumes of subscriptions, membership fees or installment fees then you will already be using a Batch Payments solution or you should be.

Batch Payments are processed by a merchant compiling a file which contains a list of the transactions which need to be processed for a specific period. This file is then submitted to a Payment Gateway for processing. A solution such as Merchant Warrior’s Batch Payments is a much more efficient method of processing transactions when you are dealing with a high volume of transactions.

Why Merchant Warrior Batch Payments?

Merchant Warrior offers its merchants two methods of processing Batch Payments:

• Manual upload via the Merchant Warrior administration panel
• Merchant Warrior’s advanced Direct API platform

Both of these batch processing methods support .csv (comma separated value), .xls (microsoft excel 94-2004) and .xlsx (microsoft excel 2007) file formats.

In the past Batch Payments often meant that merchants were dealing with complex file formats, slow transmission methods and the requirement to poll a service to identify whether the batch file had been processed or not. Have no fear – we will not put you through that pain again.

Merchant Warrior’s Batch Payments enables merchants to work with simple file formats which can be integrated into any periodic billing system whether it be for a small business or corporate.

Merchants have the ability to request and receive automatic notifications when a batch file has completed processing and have the resulting batch file compressed (if required). Reports can be emailed upon batch processing completion, are archived indefinitely and can be easily accessed via the Merchant Warrior administration panel or Direct API.

Batch Payments & PCI DSS?

Yes, we do our math. Our team works hard to ensure that we supply our merchants with the best solutions in the industry.

The Merchant Warrior Batch Payments solution supports our extremely popular Token Payments service. Rather than be required to store your customer’s credit card information locally you can simply submit a batch file to the Merchant Warrior Direct API or merchant administration panel filled with Tokens (see Merchant Warrior Token Payments for more information).

What’s next?

There are a lot of new features and updates that we are performing to our processing platform. Our aim has always and will always be to offer our clients the best payment solutions in the industry that ease their integrations, ensure their PCI DSS Compliance and increase their processing security.

We believe our Batch Payments revamp is a step forward for our processing platform and one that will encourage merchants to take advantage of our advanced Payment Gateway and customer focused services. In short – our merchants love it, we hope you do too!

For further information visit Merchant Warrior Batch Payments. Sample batch files and integration documentation can be found at the Merchant Warrior Developer Zone.