New Lower-Priced Basic and Pro Corduroy Plans
We are proud to announce that Corduroy now has new lower pricing for our Basic and Pro plans.
Our Basic plan with 100 invoices per month, 25 recurring bills, 50 active projects, 5 staff login accounts, and 20 customer login accounts is now only $29 per month.
Our Pro plan with unlimited everything is now only $39 per month.
All existing customers on these plans will be charged the new lower price automatically at their next billing cycle.
If you're not a Corduroy customer yet, take a tour and sign up today!
Support Added for Fee Fighters' Samurai Payment Gateway
Corduroy now supports the Samurai payment gateway as a method of receiving payments from your customers and storing credit cards.
If you use a payment gateway that Corduroy does not support, please contact us and we'll do what we can to add support for it.
Corduroy Has Moved Hosting Providers
If you are reading this, then you are viewing the Corduroy site on its new hosting provider. We have finished moving the server infrastructure of Corduroy to a new hosting provider in Chicago, Illinois to alleviate some connectivity problems experienced with our previous provider.
If you are ever unable to access your Corduroy site and a notice is not posted here, please feel free to drop us an e-mail at support@superblock.net so we can work with you to figure out the cause of the problem.
ING DIRECT Account Support
ING DIRECT (US) has finally enabled direct access to transaction information from finance software such as Corduroy.
To link an ING DIRECT account in your Corduroy site, you must first login to ING's website, click the "My Info" tab, and click "Create Code" in the "Personal Finance Access Code" section. This will create a random password that you will use for Corduroy.
Once your access code has been created, a new account can be added in Corduroy under the Accounts tab and then "New Bank Account". Select the ING DIRECT (ingdirect.com) entry, enter your saver ID and access code as the password. You should then see your list of accounts to add.
Secure Credit Card Storage
Corduroy now supports secure credit card storage for customers with Braintree merchant accounts. We hope to support more merchant types in the future that have "secure vault" APIs like Braintree. This functionality allows credit cards to be securely stored off-site for PCI compliance, but still usable on a recurring basis for service subscriptions.
When this option is enabled in your Corduroy site along with a valid Braintree merchant account, customers and staff will be given the option to store credit card information when it is entered for a one-time payment. Users can choose not to store the card, store the card for manual payments, or store the card and automatically use it for recurring payments. Cards can be manually added, updated, and deleted as well.
When the option to use the stored card for recurring payments is selected, the card will automatically be used to pay invoices as they are created from daily processing of recurring services. If the payment is successful, the invoice will be marked paid and e-mailed to the customer with an e-mail template notifying them of the amount charged to their card. If the payment is unsuccessful, the customer will be e-mailed with a template notifying them that their card was declined (with the error message from the merchant provider). If the customer does not have any valid credit cards stored, the customer is e-mailed the invoice for manual payment as before.
This option can be enabled in your site's settings by logging in as an administrator, clicking the "Administration" link at the top, and then "Edit Company and Billing/Payment Settings". The new e-mail templates used for processing stored credit cards can be modified at the "Edit E-Mail Templates" link on the Administration page.
Percentage-based Services
Percentage-based services for invoice line-items and recurring services are now supported in Corduroy. These types of services are well suited for adding a discount to an invoice (by adding a negative percentage-based service) or adding taxes (by adding a positive percentage-based service).
All percentage-based services will be shown on and applied to invoices after all other line-items, and in the case of multiple percentage-based services, will be applied in the order they were created.
For example, assume an invoice has two line-items, each for $50. A third line-item is added and a previously-created percentage-based service (such as "DISCOUNT-15") is selected for it. This service has a default rate of -15%. When the invoice is created, it will have a total of $85. If the invoice is edited and a fourth line-item is added for $25, the discount will still be applied at the end, so the total becomes $106.25.
