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Are you getting the most out of TOTECS? Is the platform winning for your business? Are you meeting your online goals? Are you blocked because there's something missing?

We want to boost your business and provide the functionality and resources to underpin its growth. We want to develop more wishlist items. We want the highest availability and most secure infrastructure. We want the costs to be fair for everyone.

To accomplish this, we are introducing a new billing model beginning July 1st. It's simpler, fairer and provides additional funding for wishlist development. Here's how it works.
 

What You Get

• All features available for use (was $2500/mth on the old software rental model)
• Unlimited products hosted
• Unlimited websites
• Unlimited online orders / sales
• Unlimited storage
• Many more wishlist items developed

What it Costs

• $400 base hosting fee plus usage fees (Ex GST)
  • Server requests from the user's browser (excluding static content such as images/attachments etc
  • Email messages
  • Online payments
  • 3rd Party services

Special Deal For Current Clients

• 20% discount will apply to the server reuqest fee for any client with a TOTECS Platform that has undergone Go Live prior to 1st July 2016 for a period of 24 months

Tracking Usage and a new KPI

If you haven't already noticed, the Admin Centre now displays a graph of online sales and server requests coming from user's browsers as of 27th May 2016. We recommend you start tracking a new KPI "Average Server Requests per $ spent". The lower the value, the better the ratio of converting traffic into online sales. Below is a graph for a commercial business running on the platform.

You can also dig into your traffic stats to see how much of your usage is taken up by search engine crawlers. In coming months, we will be expanding the traffic statistics
What's My New Cost?

We will be in touch with you over the course of June to outline the new cost estimates based on your usage statistics.

BUT WAIT.. THERE'S MORE

Other changes are happening on several fronts to boost the performance and accesibility of TOTECS:

• Development of master mobile responsive templates based on latest industry HTML5/CSS standards that makes it much more cost effective and easier to upgrade to a cutting edge website
• Public publishing of the Wishlist on our Online Forums
• 5 phase project management processes to better track and monitor implementation projects
• Introduction of eCommerce Implementers Course and accreditation for Implementation Partners
• Promotion and support for Integration Partners who want to link their software platforms to TOTECS
• New TOTECS Website filled with more case studies and examples

We value your feedback and look forward to entering a new era of high growth development for your online business on TOTECS.

Cheers
Glenn Drew
CEO