Store this angel in big sizeHi-res photo of Nick Kington accessible from Dexterity
West Byfleet, Surrey, 5 January 2009 -- Even with the arrangement hunters out in force back Boxing Day, the retail top artery sales are absurd to deliver the poor Christmas trading after-effects for the majority of the artery and adhesive retailers. But one ray of achievement for retailers could be their online sales. According to the latest analysis conducted by ecommerce specialist Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) there were cogent increases in adjustment levels and about-face from Christmas 2008 internet trading, as able-bodied as a about-face appear endure minute affairs patterns.
In a Christmas poll conducted a allotment of a sample of baby and average businesses affairs online, respondents appear an boilerplate of a 48% access in about-face and a 43% acceleration in orders placed for November and December 2008, compared with the aforementioned two months in 2007. Actinic’s analysis endure year appear a agnate acceleration compared with 2006.
Nick Kington, managing administrator of Actinic comments, “This is the sixth poll we’ve conducted and the analysis after-effects affirm analysts’ pre-Christmas expectations that the allotment advance in online arcade would already afresh far beat advance in top artery sales.”
Richard Phillips from The Soap Kitchen, www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk, who had apparent a 38% access in the online business for November/December 2008 said that, “Christmas 2008 and the year as a accomplished has apparent our online sales achievement access considerably, adjoin a apparent abatement in retail sales through our top artery boutique over the endure three months. 2009 will be a arduous year and we are agilely assured that our online attendance will see our arch sales performance.”
Another trend accent by a amount of e-traders in their comments was the abhorrence of shoppers to accomplish to purchasing until the endure minute, conceivably acquisitive for December bargains. The acquaintance of Robert Mobberley at www.performancemotorcare.com was typical: “Unlike 2007 area we saw a abiding access in orders from the alpha of November, the aggregate of online shoppers in 2008 didn’t appear to alpha their arcade until able-bodied into the aboriginal anniversary of December. However in adverse to 2007 they again connected appropriate up until the endure accessible postage date, with some still authoritative purchases on Christmas Day!
Other comments showed that to be acknowledged requires not just agog appraisement but top levels of account and a authentic online business strategy. Denis Caunce from www.parcel2ship.co.uk said, “Companies that are bright about their online bazaar while alms acceptable levels of chump account can still prosper, even in this ambiguous climate.” Mark Lowery from www.ewetsuits.com added, “Those who action aggressive articles or who advertise absolute to the accessible can account from the recession if they aback up low prices with accomplished chump account and acceptable products.”
Trademarks: Actinic, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business and Actinic Designer are registered trademarks of Actinic Software Limited.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Press Contacts:
Nick Kington, Actinic, Globe House, Lavender Park Rd, W Byfleet, KT14 6ND
+44 (0)1932 358345, nkington@actinic.co.uk
Actinic PR: Jane Lee, Dexterity. Tel +44 (0)1273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
2009年12月16日星期三
Actinic - Actinic Upgrades Web-based Ecommerce Solution, Actinic Express, to Version 2.0
Store this angel in big sizeSpecial offer: Create a web abundance for just £1
Hi-res angel accessible from Dexterity
West Byfleet, Surrey – 3 February 2009 - Actinic, the award-winning ecommerce software provider today announces adaptation 2.0 of its entry-level, web-based arcade cart, Actinic Express (www.actinic.co.uk/express). This provides startup web retailers with a quick and cost-effective way to alpha trading online, enabling them to actualize and administer their own online shop, all via a web browser. The enhancements cover website design, adjustment processing and payment, performance, account and aswell business features. As a appropriate offer, Actinic Express costs £1.00 for the aboriginal ages until end April 2009.
Version 2.0 adds eight new capacity to accommodate added choices for an ecommerce site’s appearance. Themes can be customised with aggregation logos, fonts and colour schemes so that anniversary website has its own character that reflects the business’ attending and feel.
The architecture options for the artefact pages accept aswell been enhanced. New blueprint options cover announcement articles in assorted columns on a page -- ideal for website owners with an all-encompassing ambit of products.
New appearance aural adjustment processing cover affiliation with Google Checkout and added adaptability on adjustment filtering.
Amongst its abounding achievement changes, Actinic Express 2.0 now has an bigger backend database, page loading and rendering, agreement of artefact attributes and anamnesis usage.
Marketing functionality now includes the ability to consign chump data calmly for mailshots and e-mail campaigns. The accession of Google Analytics affiliation enables tracking and barometer of both company behaviour and aswell web website and business attack performances.
Kate Donald of www.themagpiestore.co.uk says: “We chose Actinic Express as it had consistently acceptable reviews aural the industry and was acutely simple to use. We aswell admired the actuality that we could calmly advancement our website as and if our business bare to.”
Visit the Actinic Express archetype abundance at www.actinic.co.uk/express/example.
For a audience go to: www.actinic.co.uk/express/demo.
A abounding account of changes back Actinic Express 1.0 is at www.actinic.co.uk/express/updates/v2.htm.
Pricing and availability
Actinic Express 2.0 is accessible today. To accompany with this absolution Actinic is alms new barter a assurance up fee of £1.00, including the aboriginal ages of hosting for chargeless on its defended servers. This action ends 30 April 2009 and replaces the accustomed £49.99 (+ VAT) set up price. After the aboriginal ages Actinic Express costs just £19.99 per ages (+ VAT) with no minimum arrangement term. This includes hosting. Available from www.actinic.co.uk/express or 0845 129 4800.
About the product:
Actinic Express is an easy-to-use online arcade barrow band-aid (as against to desktop-based software) that includes aggregate you charge to set up and administer your own online shop. Whether you are a new start-up business, or an absolute business analytic to aggrandize online, Actinic Express will get you trading on the internet, fast. No programming or architecture abilities are necessary. If you can use a web browser, you can use Actinic Express.
Your online boutique is hosted by Actinic with new software appearance added automatically, abrogation you to get on with the important job of active and growing your business. And even better, the amalgamation is provided for a low account transaction so your business can acquiesce to barter online, whatever your budget.
Key appearance include: it’s simple to set up and administer your boutique from any PC with an internet connection, no software to install; best of customisable architecture templates; adjustable online archive to affectation your articles (up to 20,000); seek engine friendly; a ambit of transaction processing options; hosting, automated software upgrades and blast abutment included.
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Trademarks: Actinic, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business and Actinic Designer are registered trademarks of Actinic Software Limited.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Actinic, Globe House, Lavender Pk Rd, W Byfleet, KT14 6ND
0845 129 4800
For analysis copies, contact:
Actinic PR: Jane Lee, Dexterity. Tel 01273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
Hi-res angel accessible from Dexterity
West Byfleet, Surrey – 3 February 2009 - Actinic, the award-winning ecommerce software provider today announces adaptation 2.0 of its entry-level, web-based arcade cart, Actinic Express (www.actinic.co.uk/express). This provides startup web retailers with a quick and cost-effective way to alpha trading online, enabling them to actualize and administer their own online shop, all via a web browser. The enhancements cover website design, adjustment processing and payment, performance, account and aswell business features. As a appropriate offer, Actinic Express costs £1.00 for the aboriginal ages until end April 2009.
Version 2.0 adds eight new capacity to accommodate added choices for an ecommerce site’s appearance. Themes can be customised with aggregation logos, fonts and colour schemes so that anniversary website has its own character that reflects the business’ attending and feel.
The architecture options for the artefact pages accept aswell been enhanced. New blueprint options cover announcement articles in assorted columns on a page -- ideal for website owners with an all-encompassing ambit of products.
New appearance aural adjustment processing cover affiliation with Google Checkout and added adaptability on adjustment filtering.
Amongst its abounding achievement changes, Actinic Express 2.0 now has an bigger backend database, page loading and rendering, agreement of artefact attributes and anamnesis usage.
Marketing functionality now includes the ability to consign chump data calmly for mailshots and e-mail campaigns. The accession of Google Analytics affiliation enables tracking and barometer of both company behaviour and aswell web website and business attack performances.
Kate Donald of www.themagpiestore.co.uk says: “We chose Actinic Express as it had consistently acceptable reviews aural the industry and was acutely simple to use. We aswell admired the actuality that we could calmly advancement our website as and if our business bare to.”
Visit the Actinic Express archetype abundance at www.actinic.co.uk/express/example.
For a audience go to: www.actinic.co.uk/express/demo.
A abounding account of changes back Actinic Express 1.0 is at www.actinic.co.uk/express/updates/v2.htm.
Pricing and availability
Actinic Express 2.0 is accessible today. To accompany with this absolution Actinic is alms new barter a assurance up fee of £1.00, including the aboriginal ages of hosting for chargeless on its defended servers. This action ends 30 April 2009 and replaces the accustomed £49.99 (+ VAT) set up price. After the aboriginal ages Actinic Express costs just £19.99 per ages (+ VAT) with no minimum arrangement term. This includes hosting. Available from www.actinic.co.uk/express or 0845 129 4800.
About the product:
Actinic Express is an easy-to-use online arcade barrow band-aid (as against to desktop-based software) that includes aggregate you charge to set up and administer your own online shop. Whether you are a new start-up business, or an absolute business analytic to aggrandize online, Actinic Express will get you trading on the internet, fast. No programming or architecture abilities are necessary. If you can use a web browser, you can use Actinic Express.
Your online boutique is hosted by Actinic with new software appearance added automatically, abrogation you to get on with the important job of active and growing your business. And even better, the amalgamation is provided for a low account transaction so your business can acquiesce to barter online, whatever your budget.
Key appearance include: it’s simple to set up and administer your boutique from any PC with an internet connection, no software to install; best of customisable architecture templates; adjustable online archive to affectation your articles (up to 20,000); seek engine friendly; a ambit of transaction processing options; hosting, automated software upgrades and blast abutment included.
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Trademarks: Actinic, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business and Actinic Designer are registered trademarks of Actinic Software Limited.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Actinic, Globe House, Lavender Pk Rd, W Byfleet, KT14 6ND
0845 129 4800
For analysis copies, contact:
Actinic PR: Jane Lee, Dexterity. Tel 01273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
Actinic - Actinic Customers Give Advice on Maximising Online Sales in Tough Times
Store this angel in big sizeWest Byfleet, Surrey – 16 February 2009 - Each day seems to accompany worse bread-and-butter news, and allusive for top announcement in the harder knocks antagonism is the retail industry. Even online, times are accepting tougher. Chris Barling, CEO of ecommerce and EPOS supplier, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) has been gluttonous out tips from web retailers on how to get in angry trim. The admonition accustomed ranges from accepting the basics absolutely appropriate to convalescent business and application some Web 2.0 techniques to absolutely appoint customers.
Below is a arbitrary of the tips, additional extracts from the comments fabricated by web abundance owners – the abounding article of 1140 words is accessible to download at www.actinic.co.uk/ecommerce/get-more.htm.
1.Treat barter just the aforementioned as you would if they appointment your boutique and personalise their acquaintance wherever possible. If you accord them a abundant experience, they are acceptable to appear aback and adjustment repeatedly.
2.Use customers’ comments to advance your site. “There's no bigger (and honest) critics to accumulate you on your toes and consistently improving,” says James Auckland of www.lunaspas.com.
3.Traditionally in any abatement business and bartering budgets are the aboriginal to be cut. But business is apparently the endure across that should see the axe. Try altered things, and antithesis cuts in one across with added spending in another. Christianne James of www.4little1s.com says that the key point is, “the adeptness to admeasurement the after-effects of the campaign, as an advancing exercise in accomplished tuning, acquirements what produces after-effects and what doesn’t.”
4.Optimise your website for the seek engines. Check what agreement humans use to acquisition your site.
5.Let your shoppers collaborate anon with added abeyant buyers and with you, e.g. application acknowledgment forms, artefact reviews and amusing networking sites. “New reviews aswell add added agreeable to your site, which can advice seek rankings,” comments Nigel Berman from www.nigelsecostore.com.
6.Make the page agreeable appealing, e.g. add video clips to explain your offering, and “add frequently alteration account to your website to appearance barter that your business is breath and dynamic,” advises Mark Fraser of www.greenjersey.co.uk.
7.Build a association annular your business and get humans involved.
Chris Barling comments, “There are abounding account around, but one bright assignment seems to emerge. This is that anybody is planning to aggravate their efforts – and your competitors are abiding to as well. So if you are to survive the accepted difficult times, it’s all-important to plan even harder. Those that advance will appear stronger and into a apple with beneath antagonism – that’s the big upside.”
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Trademarks: Actinic, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business and Actinic Designer are registered trademarks of Actinic Software Limited.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Actinic
Globe House, West Byfleet, KT14 6ND
0845 129 4800
Press contact:
Jane Lee, Dexterity. Tel +44 (0)1273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
Below is a arbitrary of the tips, additional extracts from the comments fabricated by web abundance owners – the abounding article of 1140 words is accessible to download at www.actinic.co.uk/ecommerce/get-more.htm.
1.Treat barter just the aforementioned as you would if they appointment your boutique and personalise their acquaintance wherever possible. If you accord them a abundant experience, they are acceptable to appear aback and adjustment repeatedly.
2.Use customers’ comments to advance your site. “There's no bigger (and honest) critics to accumulate you on your toes and consistently improving,” says James Auckland of www.lunaspas.com.
3.Traditionally in any abatement business and bartering budgets are the aboriginal to be cut. But business is apparently the endure across that should see the axe. Try altered things, and antithesis cuts in one across with added spending in another. Christianne James of www.4little1s.com says that the key point is, “the adeptness to admeasurement the after-effects of the campaign, as an advancing exercise in accomplished tuning, acquirements what produces after-effects and what doesn’t.”
4.Optimise your website for the seek engines. Check what agreement humans use to acquisition your site.
5.Let your shoppers collaborate anon with added abeyant buyers and with you, e.g. application acknowledgment forms, artefact reviews and amusing networking sites. “New reviews aswell add added agreeable to your site, which can advice seek rankings,” comments Nigel Berman from www.nigelsecostore.com.
6.Make the page agreeable appealing, e.g. add video clips to explain your offering, and “add frequently alteration account to your website to appearance barter that your business is breath and dynamic,” advises Mark Fraser of www.greenjersey.co.uk.
7.Build a association annular your business and get humans involved.
Chris Barling comments, “There are abounding account around, but one bright assignment seems to emerge. This is that anybody is planning to aggravate their efforts – and your competitors are abiding to as well. So if you are to survive the accepted difficult times, it’s all-important to plan even harder. Those that advance will appear stronger and into a apple with beneath antagonism – that’s the big upside.”
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Trademarks: Actinic, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Business and Actinic Designer are registered trademarks of Actinic Software Limited.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Actinic
Globe House, West Byfleet, KT14 6ND
0845 129 4800
Press contact:
Jane Lee, Dexterity. Tel +44 (0)1273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
Actinic - Actinic Launches Ecommerce Fraud Checking Service with The 3rd Man
Store this angel in big sizeWest Byfleet, Surrey – 3 June 2009 – With analysis assuming consumers added afraid about agenda aegis if arcade online, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk), the UK able in ecommerce for baby and average businesses, has responded to the claiming with a above accessory to its Actinic Payments account for active card-not-present (CNP) fraud. Actinic Payments’ merchants now accept seamless acceptance to the anti-fraud, agenda analysis account from The 3rd Man for no added fee. Already acclimated by over 26,000 barter world-wide, Actinic is now authoritative this technology accessible and affordable for abate merchants. For abounding data see www.actinic.co.uk/payments.
The 3rd Man developed the National CNP Fraud File as the a lot of absolute and beat anti-fraud account accessible in the UK. Processing about 20 actor affairs per month, it can ascertain the all-inclusive majority of counterfeit action able-bodied afore the merchant fulfills the order. This way it protects the merchant and aswell minimises the potentially adverse appulse artifice blockage measures can accept on 18-carat customers.
Mark Burley, CEO of Model Railways Direct (www.modelrailwaysdirect.co.uk), and a user of The 3rd Man’s artifice blockage service, commented: “We were a alpha up and did not crop artifice seriously. However, about a year afterwards we started, we were hit by 3% of our anniversary sales in counterfeit orders above three days. We again arrested the payments with The 3rd Man and begin that they were already flagged as potentially fraudulent. Since then, we analysis all affairs this way and accept so far adored about £5,000. It’s a ablaze account and we wouldn’t do after it.”
The 3rd Man account is absolutely chip into Actinic Payments, powered by Creditcall, and complements Actinic’s absolute 3D Secure (Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode) aegis features. At no added cost, merchants application the Actinic Payments account will now accept every transaction automatically arrested for counterfeit use of transaction cards additional postal addresses, email addresses, names, IP addresses and buzz numbers.
Chris Barling, Actinic’s CEO comments, “For the aboriginal time ever, baby and average sized companies will be able to allotment their acceptable and bad adventures of specific barter automatically with bags of adolescent merchants while advancement anonymity, and absolutely acknowledging with the Data Protection Act. This empowers merchants in a way not ahead available.”
For The 3rd Man, CEO Paul Simms says, “We were actual admiring that Actinic chose us for its artifice blockage affection and this underlines our affirmation to accommodate the a lot of accurate checks available. It was bright that Actinic advised to action a above and absolutely chip service, which fits able-bodied with The 3rd Man’s action of accepting best-in-class. The affiliation should add amount for anybody concerned.”
About The 3rd Man:
The 3rd Man ( www.the3rdman.co.uk) was founded in 2001 and provides a artifice screening band-aid accurately for retailers, utilising the National CNP Fraud File. Previously, artifice blockage tended to accept that all affairs were counterfeit unless accurate otherwise. This acceptance resulted in cogent accident of business and was accordingly fundamentally flawed. Designed from the arena up to abode this issue, The 3rd Man’s National CNP Fraud File aims to anticipate artifice and has managed to amalgamate chic arch apprehension ante with the everyman barometer ante in the industry. This is all accomplished while not behind the retailer’s customers, as 18-carat barter acerb animosity accepting accused of fraud.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Trademarks: Actinic is a registered brand of Actinic Software Limited.
Simon Armstrong, business manager
Actinic, Globe House, West Byfleet Kt14 6ND. 0845 129 4800, sarmstrong@actinic.co.uk
Actinic PR: Jane Lee, Dexterity. +44 (0)1273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
The 3rd Man developed the National CNP Fraud File as the a lot of absolute and beat anti-fraud account accessible in the UK. Processing about 20 actor affairs per month, it can ascertain the all-inclusive majority of counterfeit action able-bodied afore the merchant fulfills the order. This way it protects the merchant and aswell minimises the potentially adverse appulse artifice blockage measures can accept on 18-carat customers.
Mark Burley, CEO of Model Railways Direct (www.modelrailwaysdirect.co.uk), and a user of The 3rd Man’s artifice blockage service, commented: “We were a alpha up and did not crop artifice seriously. However, about a year afterwards we started, we were hit by 3% of our anniversary sales in counterfeit orders above three days. We again arrested the payments with The 3rd Man and begin that they were already flagged as potentially fraudulent. Since then, we analysis all affairs this way and accept so far adored about £5,000. It’s a ablaze account and we wouldn’t do after it.”
The 3rd Man account is absolutely chip into Actinic Payments, powered by Creditcall, and complements Actinic’s absolute 3D Secure (Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode) aegis features. At no added cost, merchants application the Actinic Payments account will now accept every transaction automatically arrested for counterfeit use of transaction cards additional postal addresses, email addresses, names, IP addresses and buzz numbers.
Chris Barling, Actinic’s CEO comments, “For the aboriginal time ever, baby and average sized companies will be able to allotment their acceptable and bad adventures of specific barter automatically with bags of adolescent merchants while advancement anonymity, and absolutely acknowledging with the Data Protection Act. This empowers merchants in a way not ahead available.”
For The 3rd Man, CEO Paul Simms says, “We were actual admiring that Actinic chose us for its artifice blockage affection and this underlines our affirmation to accommodate the a lot of accurate checks available. It was bright that Actinic advised to action a above and absolutely chip service, which fits able-bodied with The 3rd Man’s action of accepting best-in-class. The affiliation should add amount for anybody concerned.”
About The 3rd Man:
The 3rd Man ( www.the3rdman.co.uk) was founded in 2001 and provides a artifice screening band-aid accurately for retailers, utilising the National CNP Fraud File. Previously, artifice blockage tended to accept that all affairs were counterfeit unless accurate otherwise. This acceptance resulted in cogent accident of business and was accordingly fundamentally flawed. Designed from the arena up to abode this issue, The 3rd Man’s National CNP Fraud File aims to anticipate artifice and has managed to amalgamate chic arch apprehension ante with the everyman barometer ante in the industry. This is all accomplished while not behind the retailer’s customers, as 18-carat barter acerb animosity accepting accused of fraud.
About Actinic:
Founded in 1996, Actinic (www.actinic.co.uk) is a British aggregation specialising in allowance baby and average retailers trade, both online and offline, application its ecommerce and cyberbanking point of auction (EPOS) packages.
Actinic offers ecommerce articles for web designers and self-builders, including both web-based and desktop solutions. The ambit includes Actinic Enterprise, Actinic Business, Actinic Catalog, Actinic Express and Actinic Designer. Actinic admiral added UK ecommerce sites than any added company. Research shows that over 50% of SMEs application packaged software to run their e-stores use Actinic. Some bigger accepted Actinic users cover the Royal Opera House, the Scout Association, Vivienne Westwood and the Henley Royal Regatta.
Actinic EPOS systems accord a absolute affection set that is beeline advanced to accomplish at abundant amount prices. The ambit extends from a low cost, individual till accession for the abate store, to chip multi-till and multi-site systems with arch appointment functionality for centralised product, banal and amount afterlight and reporting.
Trademarks: Actinic is a registered brand of Actinic Software Limited.
Simon Armstrong, business manager
Actinic, Globe House, West Byfleet Kt14 6ND. 0845 129 4800, sarmstrong@actinic.co.uk
Actinic PR: Jane Lee, Dexterity. +44 (0)1273 470199, jane.lee at dexterity.co.uk
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