First up: handsfree upgrades
An account upgrade is a two-step process: the first step involves double-checking your personal and company details, and making sure that your country and time-zone settings are correct. Remember to include any invoice particulars here as this information will be used for invoicing purposes. The second step involves entering and verifying your payment information: your debit card or credit card details can be entered safely on this secure screen.
Please note we distinguish between two types of upgrades - you can either upgrade your account which enables you to register domains and upgrade sites, or you can upgrade sites, which enables you to upgrade a site to either a basic or premium plan to allow for domain mapping and more.
For security reason all payment information is stored safely with a trusted third party payment provider. This data is secured using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology with up to 256bit encryption, certified by Thawte on a system developed with the same demands on security and performance as the sites used for internet banking services and share trading.
Users who have previously upgraded can use the same functionality to update their payment details, if required.
Check and register domains easily
Once you’ve upgraded your account additional options open up: you can now upgrade any site you created, and furthermore you can check availability and register domains too. Go to your site’s ‘Config’ screen and choose ‘Upgrade this site’, choose a pricing tier and enter the domain you would like to register.
We can assist with the registration of the following domain names:
- yourdomain.biz
- yourdomain.com
- yourdomain.info
- yourdomain.net
- yourdomain.org
- yourdomain.us
- yourdomain.co.za
A registration is immediate but it might take a little while for the DNS to propagate; for the domain to be live in other words.
At the same time we introduced a domains management tab which allows for domains to be registered without necessarily upgrading a site: great for parking an additional domain or two on an existing site. All domains registered through the app become available to any of your sites and we also ready all domains for Google Apps in case you require email on your new domain too.
Please take a couple of minutes and explore these new options and let us know how it works out for you. Besides these changes we took the time to introduce contextual support links and a slew of smaller incremental improvements and adjustments - we hope you enjoy these too.