We have backed a fearsome fight against cancer.

Dpivision.com Ltd has sponsored Kate Davies to complete a gruelling four hour kick-boxing challenge

Brave Kate is taking part in the Phoenix Martial Arts Sponsored Fight where, over four hours, she will be non-stop fighting, changing opponents every minute.

All of the cash raised will go to Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign, with the last challenge raising a staggering £40,000 for the charity. Good luck Kate!

http://www.justgiving.com/pma-kdavies/?from=UKSponsorExit

The scripts will upgrade your software to the latest release, giving you all the features of the current version without having to perform a fresh install.

http://blog.dpivision.com/2009/05/introducing-tradingeye-v6-e-commerce-for-everyone/

Please do bear in mind that due to the changes in the front-end markup, your design will have to be tweaked slightly in order to accommodate the new features such as the CSS-based drop-down menu, product/attribute sorter, grid layout, amongst other new introductions to the system.

Get the scripts

You can buy and download the upgrade scripts from our online order forms:

http://www.tradingeye.com/upgrade.php

The new Tradingeye integration has just been launched and supports the download of Customers and Invoices (or Sales Orders) in your accounts software.

Order in Tradingeye

Invoice automatically created in Sage 50 Accounts

Customer in as shown in Tradingeye

Customer in Sage 50 Accounts – The Account Ref is auto generated by Connect and associated to the Tradingeye customer.

Installation

Simply copy the Sage plugin into a /sage directory on your Tradingeye site, and just run the installer script from http://localhost/sage

Complete the settings in the configuration screen and click Save

Now, setup Connect with the supplied URL’s (Your URLs may be different to the ones shown above).

What’s coming soon in Connect for Tradingeye~

We will continue to expand on the Tradingeye integration and here’s a list of what we’ve got planned

•    Support for Invoice discounts
•    Upload of Products and Images from Sage to Tradingeye
•    Upload of Product categories from Sage to Tradingeye
•    Upload of stock levels from Sage to Tradingeye
•    Upload of Supplier records from Sage to Tradingeye

Pricing

Tradingeye Plugin for Connect - Free to all Tradingeye customers
Connect for Sage 50 / Instant Accounting - £25pm or £300pa
Connect for Sage Act! - £25pm or £300pa
Telephone and Email support - £25pm or £300pa

The annual or monthly license fee for the software includes all future updates to the software. All prices are quoted excluding VAT (EU only).

Next week, we will be heading to the capital with one of just six North East-based businesses selected to attend the High Growth conference.

As part of the conference, which aims to give software and technology-based businesses the chance to explore strategic partnering, flotation or equity finance, we will be meeting with top bods at Microsoft, Google and Silicone Valley businesses.

We will also be given the chance to meet some potential corporate customers and be given advice on how to develop our business.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, project manager, said: “This is another great chance to spread the word about the work we do to some of the world’s biggest companies.”

CannyBill currently enables you to bill your customers in any one currency but now you have the ability to offer multiple currncies at the same time which all have a live currency converted built in.

This means you could have your base currency in UK £ but also offer your customers the possibility to pay you in US $ or EU € (other currencies can easily be added)

Admin -> Settings -> Invoice Settings

From this page you can select which other currencies you would like to offer your customers.

There are now two ways you can bill your clients.

1)    Create an invoice

Admin -> Invoices -> Create New Invoice

When creating a new invoice, you can select which base currency you would like to offer. Please note however that your customers can select a different currency to pay when they login to their My Account.

Customer My Account -> Dashboard -> Pay Online

2)    Create an order form

Admin -> Packages -> Create New Order Group -> Create New Package

You can also view all your CannyBill statistics in the various currencies your offer.

Admin -> Dashboard

Admin -> Invoices

And lastly, in all you reports you can also switch between your chosen currencies.

Admin -> Reports

About Greg Kirk

Greg Kirk is 27 and lives just outside of Leeds in the North of England. Greg is a web designer and has been working in web design since 2005. Greg graduated from The University of Huddersfield with a BSc in Multimedia Techonology. Greg got his first break in the industry at Moving Media Marketing. In 2006 he joined WPA Pinfold, and currently heads up all their digital media work.

Tell us a little about your company.

EVODESIGN is a small Liverpool based design and new media marketing agency specialising in brand development, graphic and web design.  Our web design philosophy is creating standards based, cross browser compatible and accessible online experience for our clients and their customers.

Why did you choose Tradingeye as your ecommerce platform?

In many ways, once we discovered Tradingeye existed, the decision was made for us.  We had been longing for someone to develop an XHTML / CSS compliant solution that could easily be engineered to our own requirements.  It seemed to defy logic that of all the cart solutions available none seemed to be lightweight, responsive, scalable, manageable and XHTML / CSS compliant.

Once we began looking into Tradingeye it became clear it had everything we’d need for the majority of our clients requirements.  When we started to get a look at V6; how beautifully engineered the back-end was and the additional features on offer we were desperate to get to grips.

Could you please let us know about your project?

The Omega Changing Rooms site was originally developed using V5 of Tradingeye back in November 2008.  The project changed in scale a few times which created some delays.  The delays proved to be a blessing as they allowed us to re-engineer the site using V6.

The benefits of additional front-end features, as well a great back-end were clearly evident.  However, most compelling was the ease with which the client understood the conceptual framework of Tradingeye.  We had previously struggled getting the organisational structure of the site across to the client, under V5.  The completely re-designed interface of V6 removed all of these problems - creating an extremely intuitive end-user experience.

We anticipate over the coming weeks the store will scale seamlessly, all with very little input from our side.

Do you have any future plans for the site?

We hope our client will begin to harness the full potential of content management available within Tradingeye.  Linking specific articles to products, creating downloads and datasheets.  The new SEO features of Tradingeye are already reaping improvement in search engine indexing and we expect this to grow.  As Tradingeye v6 begins to offer detailed usage reports, augmented with analytics data we expect the store to present some unique opportunities for further enhancement (new products, landing pages, offers and promotions.)

Do you have anything else you would like to share?

Choosing which technologies to invest in as a web developer can be a gamble.  There simply aren’t the resources to try every conceivable option; at some point a decision must be made.  The friendly, skilled and rapid response of dpivision.com Ltd in relation to their products and services coupled with a vibrant and helpful user community go a long way in establishing confidence.  This kind of support is worth its weight in gold when your client’s business is dependent on the infrastructure you are providing.

Customer notes enable you to add notes against a customer when for example they call you up or you want to save some information relating to their account.

Admin -> Settings -> Invoice Settings

From here you can turn the customer notes feature on or off.

Admin -> Customers -> View Customer Details

From the main customer details page you can see how many notes have been created and also create a new note.

Admin -> Customers -> View Customer Details -> Add Customer Note

From this page you can write or edit your customer notes.

And we got in on the three days of jam-packed action to mingle with some of the country’s top bods, listen to some of the industry’s finest speakers and exchange tips on digital related issues.

Hosted in the spectacular Sage, more than 400 people from across the country attended the event, with talks from the likes of Alex Hunter, head of online marketing for Virgin Group, Dan Lyons, Newsweek Magazine’s technology columnist, Curtis Wong, principal researcher for Microsoft Research and Andrew Barke, industry head for advertising agencies at Google.

But it wasn’t all work, work, work. We also got to eat some fabulous food on the Quayside and relax with some post-conference drinks at The Pitcher and Piano.

Thinking Digital 2010 runs from May 25 to 27, with the main conference taking place at The Sage Gateshead.

After such an informative and enjoyable three days, we’ve already booked our tickets for next year.

Find out more at www.thinkingdigital.co.uk and you can see some of our photos from the night below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpivision/sets/72157618408188776/

The recent Tradingeye.com redesign was picked up by the guys over at Unmatched Style who thought the simple, straightforward style of the site to be worth a video review.

It’s always nice to receive recognition for hard work, and we’re so happy that out of all the web design galleries out there, Tradingeye.com has been picked out by one of the most respected.

We’d like the thank Gene and the guys at Unmatched Style for taking the time out to review our site. In their own words, “Unmatched Style is not just another CSS design gallery. We want to foster constructive design criticism as well as provide inspiration to our readers”.

Head over to Unmatched Style to read the review, and watch the short video of the Gene’s thoughts on the redesign. And don’t forget to rate us!!!