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NodeSpot Monitor

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Website & Server Monitoring, Uptime & Performance, Australian.

What is NodeSpot?

NodeSpot offers a hosted solution that allows you to monitor your website or applications performance and uptime. The service allows reporting and alerting via email, phone call and SMS the minute your website experiences difficulties.

NodeSpot helps minimise damages to your brand’s credibility by mitigating and preventing outages. This allows users to react to outages before customers notify you that they can’t buy your products.

This methodology has been proven to directly result in increased revenue, brand reputation and uptime for online brands and websites.

This service, commonly considered a necessity for transactional websites that do business online, can be fully managed from any location with an internet connection, without the need to install any additional software or make any configuration changes to your servers.

With NodeSpot’s redundant global network of monitoring nodes, you can count on rock solid monitoring to protect your brand’s online presence.

So if you are in the market for a monitoring solution that gets the job done, you should check out www.nodespot.com.au ASAP!

Virtuemart 2

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MW Payment Module Available!

Joomla! fans it’s time to get yourself updated to the latest version of VirtueMart and be able to accept payments via the Merchant Warrior Payment Gateway.

What is VirtueMart?

“With its fully-featured eCommerce engine, VirtueMart is perfect to sell your Goods online and drive your Business to new Heights. Despite being Open Source Software it powers large Online Shops providing the Performance, Usability and Security you expect from professional Software.

VirtueMart is the leading Online-Shop Solution for Joomla! (more than 2.5 Million Downloads so far).

And the Best: it’s free! You can download, use and modify it without any Restrictions (License: GNU/GPL) – just as Joomla!.” – VirtueMart

VirtueMart 2 Payment Extension

Installation of the Merchant Warrior VirtueMart 2 payment extension is simple. Download the Merchant Warrior VirtueMart 2 payment extension here.

Navigate to your “Extension Manager” in your Joomla! Administration Panel and upload and install the module.virtuemart2.zip package:

Navigate to your “Plug-ins Manager” in your Joomla! Administration Panel and enable the “VM – Payment, Merchant Warrior” plugin:

Navigate to your VirtueMart 2 store Administration Panel and create a new “Payment Method” that uses the “VM – Payment, Merchant Warrior” payment method:

Configure the Merchant Warrior payment method with your merchant settings:

Easy!

That is all it takes to prepare your VirtueMart 2 store to take credit card payments with Australia’s Best Payment Gateway.

PrestaShop Addon

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MW adds PrestaShop Support

There is no better way to start this post than by thanking our merchants for their patience while we prepared this module. We are excited to offer our new PrestaShop module to the public and hope that the PrestaShop team will shortly have it listed in their addons shop for FREE.

The Merchant Warrior PrestaShop Addon supports both the Direct API and Transparent Redirect services and also supports multiple currencies. The Transparent Redirect integration with PrestaShop will ensure that you remain PCI DSS compliant when processing payments from your online store.

What is PrestaShop?

“PrestaShop consists of 100 developers, designers, and professional e-commerce addicts. Headquartered in Paris and Miami, we are a leader in everything e-commerce and are committed to staying free and Open-source. As most developers know, inspiration begins with your customers. Each merchant and community member carries out projects large and small that contribute to not only their personal growth, but also the growth of PrestaShop. We continue to work hand-in-hand with the community and are passionate about creating features, modules, and templates according to their needs. The success of our software is thanks to countless hours by numerous contributors from around the world. We want to make sure every merchant is successful and in the process we ensure it is easy to sell online by providing over 275 features and an overall software that can be customized to each business’ needs.”  –PrestaShop

Why choose PrestaShop?

  • Winner of the 2011 Open-source Business Application award
  • Over 100,000 stores
  • 300,000 active community members and growing!
  • #1 Open-source shopping cart
  • Available in 41 languages
  • Strong global presence with stores in over 150 countries
  • 1,500 downloads per day

Installation is easy!

MODULE AVAILABLE HERE.

Once you have completed the installation of your PrestaShop cart adding the Merchant Warrior module to your installation is extremely simple. Unzip the contents of the zip file into the ‘modules’ directory of your PrestaShop directory and configure the options in your PrestaShop back office as seen in the screenshots below:

Get me started!

The PrestaShop Addon is available via the Merchant Warrior Developer Zone or via a direct link here. Hopefully in time the PrestaShop team will make the module available for FREE via the PrestaShop Addons shop.

MW IVR Unleashed

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MW Phone Payments is here!

It is always a nice feeling to release a new payment solution to the public that we have had in beta for a few months. The MW Phone Payments will enable you to accept credit card payments from your customers via phone. It is as simple as placing a biller id and reference number (or invoice number) on a bill and/or letter accompanied by a telephone number that your customer should call to pay their bill.

Merchant Warrior grants you FREE access to 1300 321 PAY and 1800 321 PAY phone words or alternatively you can provide your own 13, 1300 or 1800 number.

As with many other IVR systems you will NOT be required to wait for an emailed report of all phone payments before updating your billing system. The MW Phone Payments platform issues real-time notifications when transactions are processed and in doing so will allow you to update your billing system the second a transaction is processed.

Accept Token Payments via IVR

The most exciting part of our announcement today is that our IVR platform also enables you to accept Token Payments from your customers. Your customers will have a choice of entering their credit card details or a Token ID to pay a phone bill. This feature significantly reduces the time that your customer has to spend keying in numbers into their phone and provides a PCI DSS compliant solution for accepting payments via telephone.

Phone Payment Advantages

  • Automate acceptance of customer over the phone (MOTO) payments
  • Receive notifications in real-time from MW when a transaction has been processed
  • Extra hardware and/or software is not required
  • Multiple routing options for enterprise clients (route to number, route to IP etc)
  • IVR prompts can be customized
  • Accept both credit card and token id’s from customers
  • Validates CVV2

How does it work?

It’s time for a demonstration!

You can trial a simple credit card phone payment by following the instructions below:

To trial the Phone Payments service from your phone please dial: (07) 3166 5439 (Australia) or +61 7 3166 5439 (International).

Please use the following details when testing:

Biller ID: 081437
Reference Number/Invoice Number: 111
Payment Amount: 1500
Card Number: 5123456789012346
Card Expiry: 0513
Card Security Code: 123

It’s a wrap!

If you would like a demonstration of our premium IVR features such as Tokenization, or are looking to learn more about the MW Phone Payments platform, please contact us.

nopCommerce for MW

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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.

MW Supports Cart66

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MW Integrated with Cart66 – FINALLY!

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 Integrates MW

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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 Supports MW

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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.

MW & Magento… Finally!

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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.