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There's a change in payment options for our international customers.

For international customers we've been offering two ways of making payment:

• PayPal
• Wire transfer

We will continue to do so. But there's a restriction. If the invoice amount is more than $US 500, the payment has to be done via wire transfer. If the invoice amount is less than $US 500 you can continue to make payments using PayPal. This is due to a change in PayPal's User Agreement. This change will be effective from March 1, 2011.

The restriction imposed by PayPal is $US 500 per transaction. If you are making a single payment for several invoices, for an amount greater than $US 500, please do so using wire transfer.

At the moment, we don't accept funds through Western Union. But we are considering having it in the future.

I am pleased to announce BizSense 0.3.1 Alpha release.

The release brings some new features as well as several bug fixes.

Changelog for 0.2.8 Alpha

* Enhancement #955: redirect bounce emails to specified email in settings
* Enhancement #958: add subscriber status
In the newsletter module when the bounce processing was performed, BizSense used to delete the processed emails. In some cases, the email server administrator wanted to retain these emails. Thus we have added a setting where you can specify an email address to which the emails should be forwarded to before deleting. The subscriber entity now has status field with the possible values unconfirmed, confirmed, active and blocked.

Changelog for 0.3.0 Alpha

* Bug #600: Fix list subscriber ER mismatch
* Bug #752: message queue API responds with 201 even though no record is inserted
* Bug #882: same message can not be send twice to same list
* Bug #939: check email address validity in message queue API
* Bug #943: proper Dojo build required for activity/task/ page
* Bug #944: completed tasks should not appear in home page task dashlet
* Bug #945: Calls with held status should not appear in my calls dashlet in home page
* Bug #946: status column should be displayed in activity/task
* Bug #948: Move cron status icon inside bizsense status
* Bug #949: Rename form field email in admin/email/testmail
* Bug #950: error occurs after opportunity notes is created
* Bug #962: After editing the task, redirect to view details page
* Bug #969: Defaults are not appearing in filtering slect fields
* Bug #970: Ability to add meeting status
* Bug #971: Saved search is not working in opportunity index page
* Bug #980: Newsletter email validation
* Feature #938: Newsletter - ability to add and remove domains to blacklist
* Enhancement #947: Update dojo to 1.5.0
* Enhancement #951: search and pagination for subscriber list
* Enhancement #957: Add bounce count to subscriber table
* Enhancement #959: add blocked_timestamp for subscriber table
* Enhancement #960: add table domain_blacklist
* Enhancement #974: In the account notes email notification mention account name and author
* Enhancement #975: In the account notes details page print the account name in the link provided

We're looking to hire a Python programmer.

If selected, you will be working with interesting technologies related to Python and web development. We help our customers run high traffic websites. We use Pylons web application framework to build scalable and high performance websites.

Job Description And Desired Candidate Profile

:

• Work with a team of 4 Python programmers. The team members are spread across the globe.
• Have prior experience in web development
• Be comfortable working with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases

We're looking to hire 3 to 5 PHP programmers.

If your profile is similar to the following, please apply

• Experience - minimum 3 years
• Familiarity with any one PHP framework. Zend Framework experience is a plus.
• Experience in object oriented programming.
• Exposure to unit and functional testing
• Exposure to web services - HTTP based, REST, XML-RPC, etc
• JavaScript knowledge is a plus. But not a requirement.
• Understanding of HTTP is required.
• Basic hands on experience with XML and JSON is required.

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of BizSense 0.2.7 Alpha. In this release whopping 200 issues were closed.

The changelog is as below:

* Bug #389: In an invoice a product can be selected only once
* Bug #447: campaign summary
* Bug #464: Vendor product is different from Product under invoice
* Bug #467: Fix import lead page for UI
* Bug #472: I am not getttin total if produt do not has tax component
* Bug #516: move validators to Bare

Fedora 13 was recently released. Fedora 13 brought a host a new features for

• Desktop users
• System administrators
• Developers
• Users for other specific audiences such as science, mathematics, circuit design and embedded development

Read the release notes for more details.

BizSense CRM And ERP has a powerful newsletter feature. Using BizSense you can enhance your relationship with your customers and prospects.

The first step is to create opt-in lists. BizSense emphasizes on the target recipient's convenience. There are certain dos and don'ts to which you have pay attention.

• Build and use your own opt-in list. Avoid purchasing email lists from third party vendors.
• Provide a means for your target recipients to opt in and out of mailing lists.
• Don't add a recipient to the mailing lists without their explicit permission.
• Include unsubscribe link in each bulk message. The recipient shouldn't have to login to unsubscribe.
• Act on bounce messages. If a recipient email server says the user doesn't exist a couple of times, unsubscribe the recipient from all your mailing lists.
• Read and understand the bulk email policies of popular email service providers like Google, Yahoo!, AOL, etc.

Once you install BizSense and save the newsletter settings, create your mailing lists. Note that the mailing lists are one way, meaning you can send email from BizSense to the mailing list subscribers. If the recipient replies to the newsletter those replies are not processed by BizSense.

BizSense offers a WYSIWYG editor to compose HTML emails. While composing the message, be sure to save both HTML and text versions. BizSense sends emails keeping in mind the recipient's preferred email format.

Are you running Linux servers and looking for someone who can maintain them for you?

Are you looking for Linux experts to deploy websites and other public facing services?

We've been helping customers from various parts of the world to install and manage Linux servers. Many of the customers want to instantly know how much it is going to cost them to avail monthly remote maintenance services. For this reason we're creating profiles of Linux servers and publish a standard price list.

The introductory BizSense offer is now published.

Here's the pricing summary:

BizSense - CRM And ERP Pricing

BizSense CRM And ERP Hosted Service Pricing

BizSense CRM And ERP Training Services

The announcement is a bit late. Last week, we released BizSense 0.2.0 Alpha.

A whopping 179 issues were closed in this release.

As I write this post, the team is gearing up release 0.2.1 Alpha. In the upcoming posts of this blog, I will discuss the features of BizSense in detail.

The changelog is as below:

* Feature #36: Ticketing system
* Feature #45: Basic financial accounts
* Feature #46: Add Quote feature
* Feature #73: Quotes
* Feature #74: Email notification for lead notes
* Feature #75: Email notification for contact notes