Watch this space for the new Acuras logo coming soon. We feel it's a step in the right direction and will push the Acuras brand forward. We hope you agree!!

We look forward to getting your feedback about the new design when we launch it here on the www.acuras.co.uk website.

Following up our post about the HSBC ePayments gateway, we thought we'd share a little about the Barclaycard ePDQ Gateway. We've integrated a couple of sites using the Barclaycard ePDQ CPI system recently.

The admin area provided by Barclaycard to manage your online payments is fairly straightforward once you get to grips with it. It's actually the same technology used by HSBC (and presumably other banks) so this makes the life of a developer slightly easier since there isn't a learning curve for a new system.

We offer solutions using the Barclaycard CPI solution which involves a Barclaycard hosted payment page. This means you don't have to have your own SSL certificate for your website in order to collect credit card details securely using Barclaycard ePDQ.

We offer Barclaycard ePDQ integrations as part of our E-Commerce Services and we can design & build a whole online shop for you using open source e-commerce solutions and bespoke coding.

Please Contact Us if you would like to learn more or request a free quote.

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In this series of posts we thought we'd share our experience with the HSBC ePayments gateway.

The admin area provided by HSBC to manage your online payments is fairly straightforward once you get to grips with it. Online payments that are collected do not get "settled" immediately which is useful for testing because you can test a real payment with a real card if necessary but cancel or "void" the payment before it clears.

We offer solutions using the HSBC XML API solution (full integration) and the CPI solution (HSBC hosted payment page). The XML API solution requires you to have your own SSL certificate for your website in order to collect credit card details securely.

We offer HSBC ePayments integrations as part of our E-Commerce Services and we can design & build a whole online shop for you using open source e-commerce solutions and bespoke coding.

Please Contact Us if you would like to learn more or request a free quote.

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We now have a dedicated solution for PSD to XHTML/CSS conversion available through photoshop2css.com.

We convert your Adobe Photoshop design files (PSDs) to valid, cross-browser compatible XHTML and CSS code.

We can also convert your designs into templates or themes for Drupal, Joomla!, Blogger, WordPress and more...

Pricing is available on the photoshop2css.com website.

If you're in business, invoicing clients and keeping track of payments is an essential part of your business routine. If you don't have the right tools, this can be a laborious task and it can be hard to keep track of invoices which have not been paid for in full.

So we thought we'd share with you a handy open source application called Simple Invoices. Simple Invoices is a simple, community developed, free/open source, web-based invoicing system. We personally recommend it.

It is continually in development and has some great features which make invoicing and tracking payments simple!

We offer the following Simple Invoices services:

• Installation
• Hosting
• Technical support
• Invoice template customisation
• Custom reports
• Bespoke extensions development
  

You can check out the demo here. Please get in touch if you would like to talk to us about setting up Simple Invoices for you or if you have any questions.

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