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We are delighted to announce the release of some nice new swanky banners for both Tradingeye & CannyBill which you can use on your site.
The banners come in a few different shapes and sizes and both come in two sets. One for businesses and one for web designers.
Do also stay tuned for our affiliate scheme which will be launching soon.
Tradingeye Banners
CannyBill Banners
Chicago, IL: June 3, 2010: SingleHop, Inc, the Chicago provider of dedicated servers and complex hosting solutions, today announced a key partnership with CannyBill, the highly regarded web billing system producer. The agreement allows for SingleHop’s Tandem server reseller customers to get 6 months of free access to Cannybill’s highly intuitive and adaptable billing system.
Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Managing Director of CannyBill, commented, “We are delighted to have joined the SingleHop Tandem Reseller Program. It’s one of the most innovative and exciting dedicated server reseller programs out there and CannyBill will be a perfect match. The power of CannyBill is the ability for users to manage every aspect of their billing process, from invoicing clients to collecting payments. Now, with the partnership between SingleHop and CannyBill, we are able to tightly integrate our two platforms and offer Tandem Partners a way to resell SingleHop dedicated servers, all via web based order forms.”
“Tandem is a one-of-a-kind program because it offers server resellers a three-pronged approach to helping their businesses succeed. First, they get access to datacenter-grade controls over their servers and a powerful and fully white-labeled control panel for their own clients. Second, VirtualWarehouse offers them a guaranteed and detailed list of highly discounted servers that they can choose to resell. Finally, they can take advantage of exceptional marketing agreements at no cost to themselves, agreements that connect them to the best providers in the industry that can assist them in marketing, security, and even billing such as our partnership with CannyBill”, mentioned Dan Salcedo, VP of Communications at SingleHop.
Tandem was launched in February of this year and offers resellers the ability to have more control, sell more servers, and earn better margins through a comprehensive list of exclusive benefits, including fully white-labeled control panels and marketing assistance, that resellers can use as tools for marketing or higher margins.
About CannyBill
CannyBill is a web based invoicing and billing solution for businesses and web designers. Users can easily create, send and manage invoices, and accept payments online via credit card. Users can also sell their products and services, using order forms that their customers can access, and even link to live API’s such as Plesk, cPanel/WHM, Geotrust, Enom, Basecamp and many more. www.cannybill.com
About SingleHop, Inc.
SingleHop, Inc., is a full-service, managed, dedicated hosting provider that was founded on the principal of providing reliable, cost-effective, dedicated servers. The company was founded by Zak Boca and Dan Ushman in 2006 and currently hosts thousands of websites from around the world. The cornerstone of SingleHop’s managed hosting is the a la Carte Server Management Program, which is a full-array of transparent management services designed and tested to allow business customers to tailor their level of support to their needs or expertise. www.singlehop.com
###Contact Information:
Daniel Salcedo.
PR@SingleHop.com
Tel: 312 447 2581
E-Mail: PR@SingleHop.com
By Gene Crawford, unmatchedstyle
CannyBill.com design project discussion with the client Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine and the designer Andy Clarke (@Malarkey) of stuffandnonsense.co.uk and creator of Hard Boiled Web Design.
We started off discussing the reasons behind why Wladimir chose Andy to be the designer for the new CannyBill and why Andy wanted to dig into this project. The main reasons behind the relationship aside from good mutual respect was the fact that Andy was allowed to do this project open to the public.
Here’s a nice quote by Andy from his blog wrapping up the CannyBill project:
It was a pleasure to work with a team of smart people who really get it. They encouraged me to push the design as far as I needed and went with me in using HTML5 and CSS3 extensively. As client‘s go, they are also some of the bravest in allowing their design process to be open to the public.
We discussed the Prices and plans page design a bit, really delving into this question Andy brought up on his blog:
When is it the right thing to do not to attempt to reinvent a well established, tried and tested design pattern or convention. This question has come up while I have been designing the CannyBill prices and plans page.
I happen to agree with Andy here, that it’s not so much about the design pattern itself as it is doing what’s appropriate for the website/project. In this case, the CannyBill audience is very similar to the 37signals products audience that riffing on the way they’ve done the basecamp pricing and plans page is rather appropriate. Personally i’ve always researched design patterns and I get into that aspect of web design very deeply. However, I can’t say that i’ve really considered them based on the familiarity the target audience has with a specific type of design pattern, like the pricing and plans style of page.
When the subject of copy writing was touched on, specifically the work Relly Annett-Baker (@RellyAB) has done for CannyBill. I asked what it was like working with a copy writer, in this case a freelance copy writer.
Andy’s approach is that you need the copy before you can really do a great job at the design and markup. So often he says that he’ll dig into creating some of the copy himself when he needs it, for several reasons. Just so he has it to work with when designing. I’ve always said that a designer who can write has a killer skill set. Andy also talks about the micro copy and the importance of paying attention to it as you design.
My bad jokes aside, this was a really wonderful discussion, one you don’t get very often with both the designer and client at the same time. Many thanks to Wladimir and Andy for taking some time out to talk with me.
The final product of the project, CannyBill.com:
We are pleased to announce some great new features for CannyBill. Custom form fields for options, the ability to send out invoices x-days before the due date and two brand new payment gateways!
Custom Form Fields
Within CannyBill you could already create custom options for your packages which consisted of a radio button or check box. Well now we’ve added the possibility for you to add custom input boxes too. These can be used for any additional information you wish to capture e.g. ‘Where did you hear about us?’ to custom data collection of your choice.
Admin -> Packages -> Create new option
Send invoice out x-days before the due date
We’ve added a great little feature which enables you to specify how many days before the invoice due date do you want to send the invoice out. This is especially useful for renewable invoices giving your customers advance notice when a payment will be due.
Admin -> Settings -> Invoice settings
SecurePay Payment Gateways
We’ve added two new payment gateways to CannyBill. Please note that although they are both called SecurePay, they are two totally different companies and have nothing in common.
SecurePay – http://www.securepay.com/
SecurePay Australia – http://www.securepay.com.au/
You can set these up by going to:
Admin -> Settings -> Payment gateways
We’ve added a bit of German flavour to our latest tool to help businesses with their billing.
Continuing with our quest to go global, we have made CannyBill available to our friends on the continent by launching a German language pack.
CannyBill is an online invoicing and billing system, which has been custom built for businesses and freelancers.
The pioneering package cuts down admin time in half by giving you a simple, robust billing system that integrates with your current process.