A Look Back, A Look Forward, And A Flying Cat

Time Flies.

Which is why we’re doing a look back on everything that we accomplished in 2013 on 1/31/14…but it’s never to late to give an update on what you may have missed, or a forecast of all of the awesome things we have in store for 2014!

Here’s a rundown on what we accomplished in 2013:

• Native Zapier Support – Zapier could be the single most awe-inspiring addition to CheddarGetter in 2013. You can pretty much do anything. Check it out.
• Significant improvements to customer lookup (speed, ease of use, etc).
• Improved processor communication to increase fault tolerance and better handling for general internet glitches
• Various improvements to PayPal Preapproval workflow (more to come!)
• Massive overhaul of database schema including primary key switcheroo on several key tables with zero downtime!
• Billing address info added to email template variables
• Enable customers to enter coupon codes in hosted pages
• Limit promotion application to certain charge types
• Additional billing solution support
• Increased PayPal preapproval limits to $10000 and 3 years
• Resend invoice email receipts via API and GUI
• Improvements to duplicate POST check
• Refactored hook system. It’s not even more powerful and reliable. Added Bill Reminder as a hook event.
• Improvements to credit card validation when payment method update does not result in a revenue transaction
• Additional config options for Bill Reminder events.
• Found and fixed some memory leaks in our background processing
• Several additions to CG’s real-time automated auditor

Now a sneak peek into what we’ve been working on behind the scenes:

• Massive overhaul hosting infrastructure and migration to new hosting provider. Flipping the switch in early 2014!
• Full rebrand and rewrite of marketing site. Easier to use documentation. Coming in Q1 2014.
• New PCI DSS Service Provider Level 1 assessment. Certification expected to be complete in Q1 2014.
• Admin GUI rewrite including significant improvements to dashboard reporting and customer search
• JSON API interface. Read-only metrics in JSON format.

Stay tuned for more developments, features, and nature/gravity defying animals from CheddarGetter in 2014!