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SpringBoard Update Released: Bank Transfers, New File Extensions & More

Bank Transfers Now Supported as Customer Payment Method FastSpring has been working hard this season to enable your customers to pay using even more payment methods than previously existed. Now, in addition to major credit cards, PayPal, check, money order, and purchase orders, your FastSpring store can also accept bank transfers, which is the most [...]

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FastSpring Partners

FastSpring’s partners shared some quality time together in a mini-retreat last week. Pictured here from left to right are Dan Engel, CEO; Ryan Dewell, SVP Software Development; Ken White, Chief Customer Service Officer; and Jason Foodman, SVP Corporate Development.

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FastSpring to Attend 2012 CES & Affiliate Summit West

To kick off the new year, FastSpring will have representatives in Las Vegas attending both the the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which runs January 10th-13th, and Affiliate Summit West 2012 (January 8th-10th). If you are a client or prospect of FastSpring and will be attending either of these shows, please contact us; we [...]

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New FastSpring Demo Movie Released

FastSpring is pleased to announce the launch of a comprehensive new demo movie showcasing the many features of our solution and starring (though not limited to) our platform SpringBoard, which has grown and matured over the years while adhering to its original ideals of intuitive use and depth of functionality. We believe that this movie, [...]

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FastSpring Ranked #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Greater LA, #13 in North America (2006-2010)

We are pleased to announce that Deloitte & Touche  has recognized FastSpring as the #1  fastest-growing technology company in the greater Los Angeles area (view PDF) and 13th out of 500 of the fastest-growing companies nationwide, via its annual Technology Fast 500 awards. FastSpring’s growth rate from 2006 to 2010 exceeded other well-known technology companies [...]

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FastSpring Adds Foreign Currencies, Localization, Payment Methods in Latest Release

FastSpring’s latest platform release includes some exciting developments for vendors selling globally. We have added five new currencies to our existing support for Euro, Pound, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar and Yen. The new currencies now supported are Swiss Franc (CHF), Danish Krone (DKK), Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), New Zealand Dollar (NZD) and Singapore Dollar (SGD). [...]

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Pacific Coast Business Times Names FastSpring #1 Fastest-Growing Company on California Central Coast

Right on the heels of the Inc. 500 award, FastSpring learned that it has been ranked #1 in the Pacific Coast Business Times annual listing of fastest-growing companies on California’s Central Coast. The article, “Where sales grow by leaps and bounds,” by Marlize van Romburgh, appears in the August 26 – Sept. 1, 2011 edition [...]

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FastSpring Named 53rd Fastest-Growing Private Company in the US by Inc. Magazine

FastSpring received some great news today; the company has been named the 53rd fastest-growing private company in the US by Inc. Magazine. As we were last year when we ranked #41, we are honored again in 2011 to sit near the top of this prestigious list. FastSpring’s platform, team and clientele continue to grow and [...]

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FastSpring Offers Full-Service Subscription E-Commerce

FastSpring’s feature set expanded greatly in the past year and included the introduction of subscription, initially in Beta and then released in March as a full-fledged offering with a wide range of functionality built into SpringBoard, our e-commerce platform. The launch of subscription / recurring billing was no afterthought for FastSpring. It was a focused [...]

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FastSpring Hosts WWDC Networking Event

During the week of the WWDC, Apple’s annual developers conference in San Francisco, FastSpring held a private networking event for Mac developers, distributors and marketers at the Grand Hyatt. Over 70 customers, prospects and strategic partners attended the event and had the opportunity to network and conduct business with one another while visiting with the [...]

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Spring Roundup of Winter SpringBoard Updates

FastSpring continues to release regular updates to its SpringBoard platform. We’d like to highlight a few notable enhancements from the past two releases here. As you may know, FastSpring supports multicurrency pricing, allowing customers to pay in their own currency – Euro, Pound, Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar and Yen. Prices for international customers are displayed [...]

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FastSpring Integrates Quick License Manager

Quick License Manager, a product of Soraco Technologies, provides a hands-off solution to licensing and protecting your software application. With this integration, FastSpring expands its support of multiple licensing options for software vendors. Quick License Manager is a software protection tool that allows you to protect your software application with secure license keys. How does [...]

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FastSpring Donates to WFP for Japan Relief

FastSpring donated $2,000 today to the World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian relief to Japan to aid in recovery efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11th. The World Food Programme is the United Nations’ frontline agency mandated to combat global hunger, which afflicts one out of every seven people on earth. In [...]

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FastSpring Welcomes Jason Foodman

FastSpring announces that Jason Foodman, a well known software industry entrepreneur, has assumed the role of SVP, Corporate Development. Jason will also be on the FastSpring leadership team. Jason is a highly-accomplished software entrepreneur, having founded numerous software and e-commerce firms including SwiftCD®, Trexar Technologies (Sold to Allume, then called “Aladdin Systems,” now Smith Micro), MacRadio , [...]

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FastSpring to Attend 2011 CES and Affiliate Summit West

FastSpring has representatives attending both the 2011 International CES (January 6th-9th) as well as the upcoming Affiliate Summit West 2011 (January 9th-11th). If you are a client or prospect of FastSpring and will be in Las Vegas, NV for either of these shows, please contact us, we would love to meet with you in person [...]

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Roundup of Recent SpringBoard Updates

It’s been a busy time throughout the Fall and heading into the holiday season at FastSpring. FastSpring stores continue to thrive, and benefit from a number of improvements in the SpringBoard platform that are worth noting. Let’s relate a few of these that appeared in the last two releases. Many of these upgrades are direct [...]

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FastSpring Launches Site Refresh – A Designer’s Perspective

In these accelerating days of web design and development approaches, marked both by new technologies and a renaissance of graphic design and typography, the existing design of a company’s website can slowly but surely become a bit tired. What once was fresh becomes tinged with staleness. This is not necessarily bad news, as it pushes [...]

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FastSpring Rated 2nd Fastest-Growing Company by Pacific Coast Business Times

The Pacific Coast Business Times, a leading publication on entrepreneurial activities and business news along California’s Central Coast, recently published a list of the area’s fastest-growing companies. FastSpring was ranked #2, showing 1,165% revenue growth between 2007 and 2009. Other Central Coast companies features on the list include InTouch Health, Lynda.com, and Patagonia. Entitled “Where [...]

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New Social E-Commerce Feature: Incentivized Reward-Based Promotions via Social Marketing

Social media tools have clearly transformed the way people communicate. Internet users routinely share information, from photos, videos and music to sites and links. Recipients of these user-friendly, ubiquitous, one-click communications often pass them on in turn, extending the reach of a personal recommendation. Imagine if at point of sale this process were not only [...]

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FastSpring Adds Newsletter Signup for Integrated Email Campaign Management

Are you looking to easily add a new customer to your newsletter subscriber list right at the point of sale? FastSpring recently integrated MailChimp email list sign up functionality to do just that. This was a request we were seeing from our customers, and we responded. When your customers order through FastSpring, they have the [...]

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