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Developer News

Communication between USAePay and external developers is a critical component of integration. This section includes RSS news feeds and email subscriptions for the USAePay development group, to keep developers up to date on all of the updates and new features that we add on a regular and ongoing basis. While we make every effort to maintain backwards compatibility, changes can occasionally have a negative impact on merchant software.

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Production Releases

Sandbox and Staging Releases

The above news categories are updated once new features are put into production. If you would like lead time to test new features in the sandbox or staging area we provide separate notification:

Network Operations

For notifications of any scheduled maintenance or unscheduled network outages that may impact merchant processing:

All News Items

If you would like to subscribe to all news feeds at once, you may use this RSS Feed Email

Enhanced Login Screen (Sandbox and Staging)

A new version of the user login screen has been posted to the Sandbox and Staging servers. We recommend all resellers (especially those with customized login pages) test the new login screen.

Changes to the login screen include:

  • New default template for USAePay
  • Ability for users to reset their passwords online
  • Enhanced security
  • Improved private branding features

Resellers wishing to test their private branding against the sandbox server may request a sandbox reseller account from the integration support department.

Sandbox (sandbox.usaepay.com) offline 11/04/08

The sandbox environment is currently offline. Service is expected to be restored sometime today, Tuesday November 4th, 2008.

Service was restored November 4th, 2008 at 9:56pm PST

Datacenter Power Outage - NV1

At approximately 5:00am PST power was lost in NV1 datacenter. Power was restored at 6:15am and service was brought back on line 7:00am PST.

During the outage, traffic was automatically routed to alternate datacenters and the processing impact on merchants was minimal. Merchants may have received intermittant timeouts and delay in processing while their connections were rerouted.

· %2008/%10/%21 %07:%Oct · Tim McEwen

Sandbox (sandbox.usaepay.com) offline 10/07/2008

The sandbox environment is currently offline. Service is expected to be restored sometime today, Tuesday October 7th, 2008.

Sandbox (sandbox.usaepay.com) offline 09/12/08

The sandbox environment is currently offline. Service is expected to be restored by 9:30am PST.

Update 04:23pm PST 9/12/2008: sandbox.usaepay.com has been back online since 9:30am PST

Sandbox (sandbox.usaepay.com) offline 08/25/08

The sandbox environment is currently offline due to a hardware failure. There is no current ETA however, work to restore the environment is in progress. Initial estimates say that there will be no stored data loss.

Update 11:15am PST 8/27/2008: sandbox.usaepay.com has been back online since noon 8/25/2008 PST.

Telco DS3 trunk outage 08/14/08 - 08/15/08

There were several short outages between the times of 11:43pm PST and 1:00am PST. The outage is currently being investigated. All connections are online and running.

Sandbox (sandbox.usaepay.com) offline 08/15/08

The sandbox environment is currently offline due to a hardware failure. There is no current ETA however, work to restore the environment is in progress. Initial estimates say that there will be no stored data loss.

Update 2:28 pm PST 8/15/2008: sandbox.usaepay.com is back online.

Telco Outage on Global Platform

At 04:48pm PST Wednesday, July 23rd, the connection to the Global platform in datacenter CA0 failed. Affected traffic was automatically rerouted through to an alternate datacenter.

Update 12:10am PST 7/24: Link remains offline due to a telco DS3 trunk outage. No ETA is available at this time. All Global traffic continues to be routed to alternate datacenter.

Update 10:22am PST 7/24: Repairs to the DS3 have been completed and service has been restored. Connection has been added back to the pool and is now passing traffic.

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· %2008/%07/%23 %17:%Jul · Charlie McEwen

SOAP API 1.1

Version 1.1 of the Soap API has been released. This version includes minor changes to the TransactionDetail and CreditCardData to support the recent addition of Pin Debit Card and Signature Capture devices.

Two new methods copyCustomer and moveCustomer have been added to facilitate copying data between merchants accounts. These methods are only available to merchants who have multiple location/accounts.

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· %2008/%07/%21 %12:%Jul · Tim McEwen

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