NWS MOVES TO LARGE NEW PREMISES NEXT SATURDAY
At the end of the week, we are moving NWS into much larger (and more attractive) premises right in the centre of Redcliffe, just around corner from intersection of Anzac Av & Oxley Pde, the two most important streets in Redcliffe.
THe problem with moving a business that relies on ISDN, VoIP & PSTN, and of course, ADSL, is getting them all switched over with minimum disruption to services.
So the best thing about our Web-based on-line IDS System (now we have managed to change hosts), we don't have to worry about it, or the Web site, during the move.
More in a Newsletter later this week.
NWS MOVES TO NEW AU HOST
After many delays, and problems, we have at last managed to move all our databases and site over to our new AU host, Digital Paficic. But as per above, it didn't happen without some dramas and problems.
The two main reasons for the move, was, one, better performance, faster response, and more robustness, for more and more IDS users, and better support.
IDS ENHANCEMENTS
STOP PRESS. NWS INSTANT ON-LINE 'AD HOC' WARRANTIES FEATURE IN ARN MAGAZINE!
Check it out.
ARN NWS 'Ad Hoc' Article
JUST RELEASED!
INSTANT ON-LINE 'AD HOC' WARRANTIES FOR THOUSANDS OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS!
For many months, and several developers :-) NWS has been working on a major major enhancement of our patented Instant Warranty Delivery System (IDS).
What we call in-house 'Ad Hoc' Warranties.
('Ad Hoc' because you can get a warranty price and a warranty for any product at all for any product category we list in real-time on-line.)
You just select the appropriate Product Category, enter in some product details, like brand, model, RRP, and Manu warranty period, press Calculate Price, and the IDS System will calculate wholesale warranty pricing (including your 'Mates Rates' Loyalty Discount) for 1/2/3/4/5 year warranties - which you can then instantly purchase and print.
(And like our normal 'list' warranties (PCs, notebooks & servers), the IDS System sends you an automatic sales confirmation with 'pro forma' Tax Invoice and a Warranty Certificate PDF.)
The new warranty 'Ad Hoc' Warranty Product Categories we have added and released for your use are -
- LAN & WAN Equipment
- Media Centre Systems
- POS Equipment
- DVR Equipment
- LCD & Plasma Screens
- Printers
- GPS Equipment
- PBX Equipment
- VoIP & PTSN Phones
- Digital Cameras
- Mobile Phones & PDAs
- Transceivers & Receivers
- Marine Transceivers & Receivers
- Marine GPS Equipment
If you are an Authorised NWS Reseller and you have an on-line NWS IDS account & login, YOU CAN START PURCHASING THESE WARRANTIES IMMEDIATELY.
Log on and check it out here. www.nationalwarranties.com.au/ids/sales/login.php
Use the IDS Reseller Test Logon if you like or if you haven't got an IDS Account.
ID: 9999999 P/W: test123
Haven't got, or don't know, your IDS Account? Call us up ASAP and find out if it is already set-up for you ready to go.
Not an NWS Authorised Reseller yet?
Sign up here with our easy automated on-line Reseller Application. www.nationalwarranties.com.au/rs-map/rs-app.php
And you can start purchasing 'instant' warranties for thousands of products & equipment within minutes.
JUST RELEASED!
ON-LINE INSTANT WARRANTY *** QUOTES *** FOR PCs and THOUSANDS OF ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS!
Available immediately, all Authorised NWS Resellers can now get instant on-line warranty quotes for all our previous warranty product categories - PCs, notebooks & servers, PLUS all our new 'ad hoc' products.
Each quote has the exact product details you enter, and the warranty type you selected, and wholesale pricing for 1/2/3/4/5 year warranties. The pricing takes into account your 'Mates Rates' Loyalty discount.
If you are an Authorised NWS Reseller and you have an on-line NWS IDS account & login, you can get instant written warranty quotes immediately.
You can either just use the screen quote, or you can print it off, or email the quote (the email goes to your IDS account sales email address).
Not an NWS Authorised Reseller yet?
Sign up here with our easy automated on-line Reseller Application. www.nationalwarranties.com.au/rs-map/rs-app.php
And you can start purchasing 'instant' warranties for thousands of products & equipment within minutes.
Improvements to Discount Warranty Price Rounding.
Previously IDS (tried to) round prices (after any discount) to nearest 0.50c. However, coders have had a problem getting that to be consistent. Sometimes with same price it would go up, sometimes down. So to simplify both pricing and coding, we are going to truncate each discount to whole dollars before it is taken off cost price.
This has the benefit of being simple and of meaning the Ex GST price after discount/s is in nice whole dollars. Which further means that the Inc GST price is in nice 10c increments with no cents or fractions of a cent.
'Mates Rates' Discount Information added to Sales Emails & Reports.
Now in your Sales Confirmation emails, and in your IDS Sales Reports, the $$$ and % for the 'Mates Rates' is displayed or included for each warranty purchase.
This makes it much easier to understand for you and us.
Improvements to Sales Confirmation Email.
The format and the information in the IDS Sales Confirmation email has been made more comprehensive and improved. For example, the warranty period is now included in Subject line.
Improvements to Warranty Certificates & Special Offers Printing
For ages we have had on-going problems with page feed and format with the printing of warranty certificate and Special Offer pages. WE had page feeds we didn't want and we had issues like RHS text truncation.
Almost all these issues have been fixed now. The only thing that is still to be fixed is the extra page feed at the end of printing each warranty.
You should have already noticed that the IDS Sales Confirmation email comes with a PDF of the Warranty Certificate (and the special Offers).
The Special Offers are mainly to help create more service business for you, and secondly, to try to add some additional value to warranty price.
If you want to, you can TURN OFF the Special Offers in your IDS Admin module.
Bug in Server Warranty Price range Fixed.
There was a bug in server warranties that meant the price range was not correctly displayed (but displayed as a code). This has been fixed.
Enhancements to your RRP Retail Calculations.
Applies to and is used in the RETAIL SHOP module only.
Previously, in your IDS Admin Module, you could set retail 'mark-ups' for the Retail Shop' and Retail On-line IDS versions for each Product Category and/or each Warranty.
Because of the coming of 000's of 'ad hoc' warranties very soon, this has been simplified & improved.
Now you can set a % mark-up over cost by each individual Product Category, and/or set individual product RRP's (not mark-ups as previously). Individual product RRPs will over-ride any Category % setting.
This will enable you to set am single % mark-up for each 'ad hoc' warranty Product Categories.
Fantastic IDS 'Mates Rates' Loyalty Discount Program Launched.
NWS has launched a fantastic 'Mates rates Loyalty Program, that means that
any Reseller can get up to 12% discount off all wholesale warranty pricing all
the time - just by purchasing warranties regularly.
The more months you have purchased warranties in past 6 months, the greater your discount. It is that simple. And IDS does all the calculations automatically every time you login and purchase a warranty.
And your current 'Mates Rates' Discount is even displayed on the IDS Sales screen so you can see what discount you are currently getting on your warranty purchases.
Exclusive Newsflash.
NWS APPLE WARRANTIES LAUNCHED!
Today, NWS launch the first 3rd Party warranties in Australia for Apple hardware. They will come with all the usual NWS great service, and will be priced at a very substantial reduction to AppleCare wholesale Reseller pricing.
And the NWS Apple warranties come with better service provision than AppleCare warranties - with faster Same Day/Next Day Response, and incorporating NWS' 'Instant Parts Replacement' service policy. But, as with our normal warranties, no software support is included in the standard Apple warranty.
These warranties ARE NOW AVAILABLE for purchase and on-line real-time IDS warranty delivery using the fantastic patented NWS on-line IDS System.
NWS Apple warranties are available NOW for the COMPLETE range of Apple hardware, INCLUDING iPhones and iPODs.
Test drive IDS & check out the new Apple warranties here.
Authorised NWS Resellers - with an activated IDS account - can start ordering Apple warranties IMMEDIATELY. Or, if you want your NWS IDS Account activated, contact the NWS Reseller Support Office ASAP (resellers@nationalwarranties.com.au or (07) 3117 9465).
And, if you aren't an Authorised NWS Reseller yet, don't delay, complete & return the attached NWS Reseller Agreement, or contact the NWS Reseller Support Office ASAP (resellers@nationalwarranties.com.au or (07) 3117 9465).
We can have you up and running within 24 hours.
And watch out for news about this great new warranty product in ARN. And elsewhere.
But you heard it here first. :-)
NEW! Just Released.
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Let us all know what components you find are seem to be failing all the time.
Help us and help others. Or get some help and useful info yourself.
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NWS's Fantastic Patented
Instant Warranty Delivery System
Version 2+ Just Released!
Too good to be called V2. V2+.
2nd Hand PC Warranties Now Available!
Try the Wholesale Sales module of the fantastic IDS System NOW!
Click here.
Sell Retail Warranties ON-LINE Using IDS!
Try the demo version of the NWS Reseller on-line Retail Link NOW!
Click here to see.
More Great Enhancements in V2+!
- Previous version now rebadged as 'Retail Shop' version with editable Reseller
RRP designed to be used in shop with customers.
- Brand new Reseller 'Wholesale' version that displays only Reseller wholesale cost prices (not retail RRP)
- In 'Retail Shop' version, Resellers can add retail mark-ups by individual product or product category, eg Notebooks.
- In 'Retail Shop' version, Resellers can add retail mark-ups by fixed dollar amount and % of cost for both individual products or product category, eg Notebooks.
- 'Retail Shop' version has brand new Reseller Customer 'Discount Coupon' feature.
- Very complete range of EXTENDED & UPGRADE warranties now available in IDS.
- Warranties for 2nd Hand systems now available!
- Great new feature! On-line IDS ordering of 'sticker' warranties to be shipped out.
- Great range of new additional IDS Sales Reports, including shipped products.
- Even order free Retail Marketing material using IDS v2+.
And much more.
New IDS Retail Shop & Wholesale Versions Now Available!
Retail Shop has your retail RRP prices, while Wholesale just has NWS cost prices. All prices are still all Inc. GST.
Reseller On-line 'Retail' Version NOW AVAILABLE!
Right now, Authorised NWS Resellers will be able to add a link to their site that will allow customers to purchase NWS warranties retail directly through their Reseller IDS account. Customers use our Stratapay Payment Gateway to pay by CC.
Your retail mark-up for these warranties will be credited to your IDS account, and payment to you made at end of month (less any warranties purchased).
One, two, three, four & five year warranties now available through IDS for all products - PCs, notebooks, servers!
A complete range of EXTENDED warranties now available through IDS!
These warranties start after the first or second year of Manu. warranty.
BACK-DATED warranties now available through IDS!
All server warranties now available through IDS!
IDS Sale Confirmation email now also a pro forma Tax Invoice (pending the monthly QuickBooks invoice).
Automatic email sent to Reseller when warranty voided.
Resellers will now automatically receive an email report with all warranty sales for last month at end of month.
Monthly Report sent to sales email address in IDS Account details.
And at any time Resellers can send themselves an email report with all warranty sales for last month (or any month).
