Thursday, June 11, 2009

Important Service Changes

- FROM 15th June 2009, Contracting Company information will be MANDATORY. If you haven't filled out the company information in your Profile, please do so by logging in to the Control Center and modify your Profile. If you don't have a company, you can put your own name and address there so you can run the service as an individual. IMPORTANT: You won't be able to accept payments in your Hotspot until you fill out that information.

Also, the new Generic / Green Skin will be applied to all locations except if you send a ticket and asking us to leave your existing Skin. You will also be able to change back the Skin after we change it.

- FROM 1st of July 2009, VAT will be 25% instead of 20%. If your company resides in the EU and don't have a valid VAT number, we will add 25% to our commission from the 1st of July 2009.

- BROWSER ISSUES: We have had some problems with the Control Center with IE8, this issue has been resolved. We also have problems with Safari4 Beta, please upgrade it to FINAL version and clear all cookies if you experience problems.

Monday, June 8, 2009

New Skin is available for Splash Pages

A new skin has been released in the Control Center which can be used for Wi-Fi Start (Splash) pages.

The new Skin is called "Generic / Green", it's "Generic" because it is suitable for all kind of locations, and it's "Green" because there are green circles in the package selection pages.

What's new in this Skin?

- Much cleaner and fresh design which replaces the old one that we've been using for 3 years
- More informal: Bandwidth and traffic limits are clearly visible
- Advanced data verification with ajax: Username and other registration data are checked in real-time against our database which helps users to fill out the registration form more easily
- Easily readable on Wi-Fi phones
- Works perfectly with IE, Firefox, Safari

IMPORTANT: We will change the Skin automatically at the end of the week for ALL OPERATORS who are using the default skin now. If you wish to stay with the old design, please send us a Help Desk ticket.

For those who are using a customized skin, there will be no changes (you can change to the new design manually).

You can change the Skin in the Control Center if you Modify Hotspot Location / Splash Page Settings.

We're planning more Skin releases in the future, more color options will be coming for the Generic Skin, and we will release type-specific Skins too for hotels, campgrounds, etc.

Check out how the new Skin looks like here!

The new Skin release is the second step of a 3 steps process of our entire site redesign.