I just wondered if anyone has experienced waiting much longer than '3 business days' to get a yes or no to a Bizspark application?
I applied in October 2009. My business qualifies (as far as I can see). I selected my UK network partner, Developer Fusion, and I'm still waiting.
I did get an email response after about 4 weeks from a Microsoft Champ apologising for the delay and asking me the 3 qualifying questions again. Strange I thought, but I answered the 3 questions exactly as I had done in my first application and waited... and waited...
Still nothing by the end of November so I fired off another email to the Microsoft Champ but got no response. So, in desperation I hit the 'Contact Us' link on the Bizspark site and fired off a very polite email explaining everything and asking for someone to make a decision. The response was short and precise 'Contact your Microsoft Champ'. (Sigh).
Well, I've now started the developent using Eclipse, PHP, and Apache.
I'd still like to know why I've been ignored. I mean, even telling me 'NO' I don't qualify would have been an acceptable answer.
Anyone else had problems applying?
Guys, go for the RackSpace. The customer service is amazing. They responded to my email on Saturday night and got enrolled in BizSpark on Monday!
As long your business meet the requirements you will be ok.
I tried with HSBC as my sponsor as I've got business internet banking with them, but they failed miserably. The provided enrolment code wasn't valid, didn't respond to my emails either.
RackSpace is the UK BizSpark Champ! Good luck!
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We have a booking system that has an online booking aspect. We have been trying for about 2 years now to get facebook to respond to our request for access to their 'book now' list of supported apps and have our product listed.
Not a single response. Multiple applications. There is no support or ability to request if it's been looked at.
We see there are some apps in there, but we can see threads in the facebook support forums that many others are facing the same issue, yet FB closes the threads as solved, even though they're not.
How can we possibly get FB to start the process of allowing our developers to write for the Book Now button and have them actually respond / allow us?
The specific question is, if you've had success, what exact steps did you take? For us, nothing seems to work and 2 years later, our clients are not happy.
Thank you.
I want to add, we have a test app, it's of the type business, we are a confirmed business, it's all done, but we can't add Step 3 from here https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-business-extension/fbe/guides/developer-panel as it's just not in the list, despite all the above being complete.
OK so im just gonna ask this question, as I am at the end of the rope, with hopes someone out there will have some advice.
I have installed the Woocommerce Follow Up Emails plugin on my site, and for the life of me I cannot get it send the email.
The settings I have are:
Trigger: 3 days after the order total is above $1.00
Setting: Customer recieves the email once
There is nothing in the "scheduled emails" of the plugin showing up, however and this is the part that throws me off, in the Tools>Scheduled Actions of the wordpress dashboard i get multiple entries of the below:
which tells me that it the emails are being scheduled but are not being sent out (even though it says, action complete). I have checked the WPMail log nothing, i have checked Cpanel Email Tracking and theres nothing. I have a WP Cron plugin installed that tells me it is functioning correctly.
Does anybody have any ideas/suggestions that i could do or check that I havent done already? Is there something I'm missing?
Any help will greatly be appreciated.
P.S, I purchased the plugin from a third party site and cant ask Woocommerce for support without paying for subscription (which i will do as my absolute last resort)
The plugin works fine on my side, although it is very basic in its functionalities and you reach super quickly its limitations.
I'd suggest you buy the plugin from WC. They tend to have special offers of 30-50% off few times a year. Their support is typically very good and has a live chat so you get answers often directly.
Hope you got it figured out by now.
I applied twice in the google forms for a developer key for soundcloud to use a widget on my website. It has been more than 3 weeks and I have still not got any reply from them. What do I do?
I'm afraid you just have to wait until they respond. I have applied 3 times now and keep getting rejected and the response is a generic answer not explaining why you were denied. For me I think it is the APP URL, yet they don't explain, it is so frustrating.
Did you try email api#soundcloud.com on my first rejection they were very friendly and replied with advice, however second time they did not.
You can also try calling help on +4930467247600 however they have not worked for me.
Lastly I read online that one person heard nothing from them for weeks and checked his SoundCloud developer page under 'YOUR APPS' and his app was there set up and with the client id and secret etc. He was just never informed that he got it. So hopefully that is the story in your case.
For me it took four weeks. I contacted them via Twitter and Email. They responded but all they said was:
"As mentioned previously, we’re currently working through applications
as quickly as possible, although there has recently been more requests
than usual lately causing delays.
You should receive confirmation soon though."
A few days ago, I received the following email from address paypal#paypal.com and with subject "IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades.".
I have reason to believe it is a phishing attempt. Please find my notes in the end and try to justify why I'm right or wrong.
The only part of the mail that I removed was my name in the third line.
PayPal service upgrades.
,
As we have previously communicated to you, PayPal is upgrading the
certificate for www.paypal.com to SHA-256. This endpoint is also used
by merchants using the Instant Payment Notification (IPN) product.
This upgrade is scheduled for 9/30/2015; however, we may need to
change this date on short notice to you to align to the industry
security standard.
You’re receiving this notification because you’ve been identified as a
merchant who has used IPN endpoints within the past year. If you have
not made the necessary changes, we urge you to do so right away to
avoid a disruption of your service!
Because these changes are technical in nature, we advise that you
consult with your individuals responsible for your PayPal integration.
They will be able to identify what, if any, changes are needed. Please
share this email and the hyperlinks below with your technical contact
for evaluation.
Testing in the Sandbox is one of the best ways to make sure your
integration works. Sandbox endpoints have been upgraded to accept
secure connections by the SHA-256 Certificates.
Full technical details can be found in our Merchant Security System
Upgrade Guide. In addition, our 2015-2016 SSL Certificate Change
microsite contains a schedule of our service upgrade plan.
Thanks for your patience as we continue to improve our services.
Please do not reply to this email. We are unable to respond to
inquiries sent to this address. For immediate answers to your
questions, visit our Help Center by clicking "Help" on any PayPal
page. Copyright © 2014 PayPal. All rights reserved. PayPal (Europe)
S.á r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., Société en Commandite par Actions. Registered
office: 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449, Luxembourg, R.C.S. Luxembourg B
118 349.
Here's why I think it's fake:
They just address the customer by name, no "Dear" etc.
Copyright 2014? strange...
The phrase "we may need to change this date on short notice to you to align to the industry security standard" has a minor mistake (IMO, although I'm not a native English speaker) and doesn't sound like a company's policy. Talking about maybe changing a date is not professional.
The subject... come on, caps?
The links are to a strange domain, the certificate of which is issued by a different company than paypal.com's. One serves a pdf.
I think it's a pretty elaborate phishing attempt, but it strikes me that in online discussions about it (dating back many months), representatives of various companies treat it as legit.
So, am I missing something?
Yes that is a Legitimate email from PayPal.
For additional details, see this recent Stack Question:
How can I tell if my paypal certificate is SHA-256?
The PayPal Merchant Technical Support Site has additional information on the Certificate Upgrade and how to test your server.
Also if you ever wonder if an email is from PayPal you can forward the email to Spoof#paypal.com or the new email Review#paypal.com.
My company plainly meets the acquirements to enrol in Bizspark. Yet so far I have not been able to.
I first applied via a Networking partner but heard nothing back and then discovered the Networking partner I picked did not have contact details on their website so I re-applied with a different live ID directly to Microsoft and again did not receive a response apart from the initial acknowledgement.
Waited a few weeks and then tried again picking another Networking partner. They graciously responded with a link to enrol.
Now a moth later I am about to give up. I have a website (Although I dont yet need one as I have nothing to sell) and a working email address with the same domain. Do the Bizspark team notify people if they have been declined?
where are you located ? It took me more than a month here (Australia) to get approval from a networking partner. You should contact more than 1 partner (if accepted by any, let the others know that you already get an approval) as the first partner didnt reply me and I had to try the second one.
I dont think they will reply you if your application is declined.