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PayPal Integrations at BCS Engineering

The Faster, Safer Way to get Paid!

We’ve been using PayPal since 2000 and want to let our customers know that it’s one of the best payment methods available! Great customer service for the merchant and the customer, as well as safe transactions, are key to your business success!

How can we help with PayPal?

Why is PayPal great?

  • Customers do not have to post financial information to you to get paid
  • Merchants can easily see if a person is a Verified PayPal account holder
  • Protects you against fraud

Contact us now for help setting up the faster and safer way to get paid!

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Triathlon Success!!!

Saturday was a great day for a Triathlon and our Triathletes Carrie & Lynn both had a super day! Carrie posted her fastest swim time ever and finished in 02:09:18.970! Lynn’s goal was to finish in under 2 hours and she blew that out of the water with a finish time of 01:54:54.527! We couldn’t be more proud of their accomplishments!!


Carrie waving on her way back from the bike and heading to the run area!

Brandon of BCSE also participated in the Race for a reason and decided at the last minute to do the Mud Run! He finished with a time of 00:55:09! The Mud Run is a 4.5. mile run that goes through the ROTC challenge course and finishes at a slip-in-slide.

Over 1,000 people participated in the Race for a Reason Tri/Du, 5K, Mud Run, and 3K Walk and over $100,000 was raised for 87 different causes; 244 of those participants braved the Tri/Du. What a fantastic day full of personal achievements topped off with the great feeling of knowing that many worthy charities benefited from all of these efforts!

Carrie & Lynn post race, those smiles tell it all!


Left to Right: Lynn Hanna (of BCSE), Deb Murray (friend), Carrie Saunders (of BCSE), Brandon Saunders (of BCSE – Did the Mud Run!)

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Triathlon Time!!

On April 26, 2014 BCSE’s very own Carrie & Lynn are participating in the Race for a Reason Triathlon in Athens, OH! They have been working so hard and training for months and we are all so proud of them! Carrie is supporting Cystic Fibrosis Lilly’s Sunshine & Lynn is supporting Good Works, Inc. You can find more information on the charities by visiting:

Carrie’s Race for a Reason
Lynn’s Race for a Reason

Good luck ladies! Post Race pics to follow!

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Heartbleed Bug – Critical OpenSSL Security Flaw

A very serious OpenSSL security flaw, known as the Heartbleed bug, has recently been discovered simultaneously by two different teams of security experts. The bug is a serious vulnerability in the encryption technology used throughout most of the Internet and the bug has been around since 2012!

Does this affect me?
The answer is, it depends. If you are hosted with us, then no, you were never affected by this bug. We have never used an OpenSSL version that includes this vulnerability on any of our hosted servers. If you are hosted somewhere else, you need to check with your host and insist that they fix this if needed. It is extremely important that you check with your host and make sure they fix the bug!

Do you have more technical details?
This website gives a great overview of the technical details surrounding this bug: http://heartbleed.com/

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Revamping X-cart Customer Reward Points!

10 years ago in November is when we released what became our flagship product! I can’t believe it’s been that long already! Time has flown by and it’s well past due a complete overhaul!

This year we’ll be releasing a major update to our infamous X-cart Customer Reward Points module and we need your help! We have molded it and changed it along the way based upon customer feedback and we want to make the new version even better than before! Contact Us to make your suggestion and be eligible for a FREE software upgrade to the latest version! We’re looking to get all requests by March 15th, 2014.

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Authorize.net CIM for Magento

Our Authorize.net CIM for X-cart has been so popular we created an Authorize.net CIM for Magento as well! We saw the need for a good, flexible CIM module for Magento and extended our knowledge of creating it for X-cart and created it for Magento too.

With our Magento CIM module you can have even more flexibility to allow the customer to opt out of storing their credit card. You can use their PA-DSS compliant iframe or their standard on-site payment form. It also works with Magento’s One Page Checkout and their Multi-step Checkout!

Check out the screen shots for our Authorize.net CIM Magento Module on our sister site and full feature list!

Don’t have Authorize.net yet?

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Christmas hours 2013

We will be OPEN for the Holiday weeks! We value being able to help you even during the holiday weeks! So we will be open the next few weeks. However we do value having our staff visit with family and friends during this time, so we will not be at full staff. Each staff member is taking off at different times but someone will be in the office on business days. All staff will be out of the office on Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years. We will be servicing urgent/site down needs during those days and filling orders at least once a day.

We hope you have a great holiday and safe New Year!

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Responsive Design vs Mobile Design

We get asked many times whether to go with a Mobile design or Responsive design. The simple answer is: “It depends.”

When to go with a Mobile design for your eCommerce store.

We find it’s most economical to go with a mobile design for your eCommerce store when you already have an established store and aren’t currently wanting to upgrade or redo the look of the store. With our Mobile Module for X-cart we can customize the look to match your current current X-cart store.

When to go with a Responsive design for your eCommerce store.

We find it’s most economical to go with a responsive design for your eCommerce store when you are wanting to redo the look and feel and/or are upgrading your website. This makes it the easiest and most efficient way to get a responsive design by coding the template to be responsive from the start. It can be very inefficient to translate an existing code and CSS set into a responsive framework. So this is best done when you are already creating a new fresh look. We feel currently that responsive is the way to go in general because you then have only one set of files, css, etc to change if you want to change some items on your site. But it’s best to switch to responsive when creating a new look or upgrading.

Check out our new Magento Store which gives you a sneak peek at the new design coming to BCSE as well as our work making a responsive template!

What about SEO, is Mobile or Responsive better?

It really just depends on doing the one you pick well! If either is done well, then it will work well for SEO. Google for example recognizes both types of mobile design solutions. There is even a recent article about Google’s Matt Cutts answering these questions. You can read the full article here.

Contact Us to see how we can help your business become mobile ready!

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Holy Cow we had an Earthquake

Wow. Just before we were getting up to have our monthly staff meeting (3 weeks late! you guys have been keeping us busy!), several of us felt our desks shake and heard the ceiling tiles shift! Apparently a small town just 9 miles away from us had a 3.5 earth quake! We don’t know yet if there’s been any damage but that was really bizarre for us since they aren’t frequent in Ohio!

Check out the earthquake info.

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