Following the announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne earlier this year to raise VAT from 17.5% up to 20% from the 4^th January 2011, many online traders will be faced with the challenge of updating their website to reflect the change.

Traders using off the shelf software should be able to make the changes relatively quickly and easily using their site’s administrative facilities, however, traders with bespoke or legacy shopping carts may not be so lucky.

On a typical ecommerce site the following issues may be raised during these changes:

·         Net/Gross product pricing

·         Automatic VAT calculation in the shopping basket and at the checkout

·         Integrity of data relating to historic orders i.e. whether the value of an order placed before the change in VAT will be affected by updating the rate on the site

·         Calculated totals on order receipts/invoices

If you are concerned about whether or not your site is built to cope with the change, please get in touch with us. We will be able to put your mind at ease or else help you to implement any necessary changes. (www.freshdevs.com)

Fresh Devs would like to announce its new partnership with Symantec Hosted Services, previously known as MessageLabs to offer MessageLabs Hosted Services.

MessageLabs hosted services offer the most aggressive and comprehensive service level agreement (SLA) in the industry with money back remedies if performance levels are not met.

MessageLabs Hosted Email Security combines advanced email antivirus, antispam, and content filtering capabilities in an easy to manage solution that requires no on-site hardware or software. Part of an integrated approach to securing and managing email, Web, and instant messaging traffic, MessageLabs Hosted Email Security includes an industry-leading SLA that covers 100% protection against known and unknown viruses and 99% spam capture.

Email Security

·         Antivirus Effectiveness – 100% protection against known and unknown email viruses

·         Antivirus Accuracy - no more than 0.0001% false positives

·         Antispam Effectiveness – 99% spam capture (95% for email with Asian characters)

·         Antispam Accuracy - no more than 0.0003% false positives

·         Email Delivery – 100% email delivery

·         Latency – average email scanning time within 60 seconds

·         Availability – 100% service uptime

MessageLabs Hosted Web Security service operates at the Internet level, intercepting viruses, spyware and other web-borne threats before they enter your network or reach your remote workforce. Our hosted service also allows you to block access to inappropriate websites by URL or by category, keeping your employees productive and compliant while enforcing acceptable usage policies.

   Web Security

·         Antivirus Effectiveness – 100% protection against known web viruses

·         Latency - average web content scanning time within 100 milliseconds

·         Availability – 100% service uptime

  Fresh Devs are excited to be able to offer these benefits to our customers and look forward to a       long and fulfilling relationship with Symantec Hosted Services.

Copdat is a one of a kind online trading platform designed for all classes of people with the aim to bring excitement to the newly developing online trading especially in the developing countries.

Fresh Devs have just launched Copdat's new on-line voucher system which will allow people in countries including Nigeria, to purchase scratch card top up vouchers in cash and then use the unique code to top up there Copdat account. This system has been created because PayPal does not support Nigerian currency and it was therefore important to find a solution that allowed Copdat customers in Nigeria to use the system using their own currency without making it too difficult. 

As of yesterday the www.gatszu.com payment system went live and is up and running ready to use. 

This new system will allow recruitment agents who wish to use the Gatszu system to buy their licence on-line through a secure Google checkout making the entire process quick, easy and hassle free.

We have launched a new site today for Lucie Jones, one of the contenstants on X-Factor 2009.

Check it out: Lucie Jones X Factor Contestant 2009 Community Fan Site

The Cabrellis Bros Ltd., in partnership with Fresh Devs and The Manufacturing Institute takes a grand leap forward today with it's new online presence and e-store. As well as a brand new look and feel for their website satisfied clients including restaurants, bars, ready meal manufacturers and many other types of companies, who rely on Cabrellis to supply a wide range of products of the highest quality can now source their orders online via the new website.

So head on over to Cabrellis E-Store today, and don't forget to pick up some Tutti Frutti ice-cream while you're there!

We have implemented Facebook connect to FreshDevs.com. Clients and staff can now log in to our site through facebook connect.

For the past couple of months the Philip James companies have been working with Fresh Devs to evolve their online property to better represent their brand and offer new functionality to new and existing customers.

This week we are proud to present the new Philip James website. We'd like to say this is the perfect model for how lettings and estate agents should be presenting their information. Check it out!

Following the pre-budget report from the chancellor Alistair Darling, which included a cut to the rate of VAT from 17.5% to 15% for 13 months from the 1st December 2008, many online traders will be faced with the challenege of updating their website to reflect the change.
Traders using off the shelf software should be able to make the change relatively swiftly using the site’s administrative facilities. However, traders with bespoke or legacy shopping carts may not be so lucky.

On a typical ecommerce site, the following issues may be raised by the changes:

• Net/Gross product pricing
• Automatic VAT calculation in the shopping basket and at the checkout
• Integrity of data relating to historic orders i.e. whether the value of an order placed before the change in VAT will be affected by updating the rate on the site
• Calculated totals on order receipts/invoices

If you are concerned about whether or not your site is built to cope with the change, please get in touch with us. We will be able to put your mind at ease or else help you to implement any necessary changes.

Today at Fresh Devs we begin the launch of our new website. We have some fantastic new content on the way and will be making various updates in the coming days and weeks.

Many of our existing clients have already agreed to feature in new video tutorials and testimonials we will be featuring soon, and we hope the early launch gives you a clearer vision of were we are heading with our own online property and what you have signed on to help with.

You may also notice the new company blog and news pages, along with a great deal more information on our clients and services (although we are still working on much of the content). If you would like to edit any of your own company information on our pages you can do so via your company login or contacting us.

As well as the new look and feel, you  will notice we have stripped some of the usual content from the front page. We hope the new design makes it easier for our users to find the information they need as quickly as possible but if you have any trouble please do not hesitate to give us a call. Existing customers who need to login and manage their accounts should be able to find all the usual tools available however if you do find yourself lost and in a rush you can use the old site at http://old.freshdevs.com. Please note however we no longer support this old version and pages may well break as we migrate content to the new system.

The wider page allows us to present much more information than we could on the previous design and many of the new pages simply aren't possible on the old site.

As always, your feedback would be greatly appreciated!