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New! Super-Cool Uploads Progress Bar

June 16, 2010

Web-form-buddy’s popular file upload option now comes with a built-in customizable progress bar. This displays real-time stats to your customer as they wait for their files to upload. Updating every second or two, it shows:

A horizontal bar representing the progress of the file upload.
The size of the selected file.
The percentage completed.
The estimated time remaining.

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New Payment Option: Electronic Funds Transfer

March 17, 2010

Today we have added electronic funds transfer as a new payment method for both Web-form-buddy payment forms and the Web-store-buddy shopping cart.
The idea is that you can enter your bank account details on your control panel, and then if you enable this payment method your customer will be provided with bank transfer instructions. If [...]

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Drop Down Menu Fields With Payment Forms

February 16, 2010

We have just added support for drop-down menu fields with Web-form-buddy payment forms.
The idea behind payment forms is that you assign a price on your Web-form-buddy control panel to specific fields in your form.
In the case of text fields the purchaser can enter a quantity in the field and Web-form-buddy will multiply the price [...]

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The Form “ID” Attribute Versus The “Name” Attribute

January 9, 2010

Up until now, in a situation where you have several forms in one page, Web-form-buddy has asked you to use the “name” attribute of the form tag in order to distinguish one form from another. Like this:
<form name=”xyz” method=”post” action=”your-script-name.cgi”>
Well  this will still continue to work with your existing forms. But we have decided from [...]

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Integration With Google Checkout For Payment Forms

November 24, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Web-form-buddy now supports Google Checkout as an option for payment forms.
With Google Checkout folks can pay using the credit cards that they have setup in their Google account. Compared to many payment methods, Google Checkout offers the buyer a particularly fast, easy and comfortable payment method.
Signing up to become [...]

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Additional Password Option For BuddyData

August 27, 2009

if you use Web-form-buddy for secure forms or archived forms, the data is available at our secure portal www.buddydata.com.
Likewise, if you use our Web-store-buddy search engine friendly shopping cart, your store orders are available from buddydata.com.
Up until now, the same password would grant access to the control panel and to buddydata.com. And that stays the [...]

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Payment By Money Order

March 4, 2009

We have an additional payment method now for Web-form-buddy and Web-store-buddy :   payment by money order.
The next one we’ll be looking to add is Google Checkout.

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Resetting The Form Serial Number

February 2, 2009

Web-form-buddy has the option to serialize your forms. We’ve now added the ability to set the serial number to any value you choose.
If you use payment forms, Web-form-buddy also generates a unique, sequential order number for each payment. Now you can set or reset the order number at any time.

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Allowing Your Customer To Pick The Form Recipient

November 20, 2008

There are some occasions where it it might be appropriate to allow the person submitting the form to choose who will receive the form data. For example you might have a general inquiry form and it would be nice if your client could choose whether to send the inquiry to “sales“, “support” or “accounts” .
Now [...]

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New Option For Minimum Payment Amounts

September 29, 2008

Web-form-buddy has a new feature that allows you to set a minimum payment amount for use with your payment forms.
You can use this feature if you have chosen the payment form option in which the total price is calculated from the choices made by your customer from your form. Or you can use it if [...]

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