This change is likely here to stay (although I have sent them my feedback, and am a little annoyed that no warning was given). We are Mac users and have created an AppleScript to get around this issue. The AppleScript is run by Mail Rules that we have set up. We wanted to share our AppleScript with you if you’re in the same boat and want a quick solution.

A quick rundown on what the code does: When a Mail Rule is triggered by an incoming payment received email, the script runs. It extracts the buyers email address from the incoming email, generates a new outgoing email to the buyer, sets the Subject and Content, and sends the email.

Here’s my disclaimer: although I am a developer, I’m embarrassed to say that this is my first AppleScript! It’s not pretty but it does the job. No doubt in the coming days/weeks we will fine-tune it. The script assumes that the format of PayPal’s email to you is the same as the layout that we get (as long as the buyers email address is displayed in the content of the email within parenthesis then it should be ok). Also, this isn’t a tutorial or a how-to on how to set up Mail Rules.

Steps:

1. Create your AppleScript using the AppleScript Editor from utilities.
2. Here’s the code below, paste this into your editor. You will need to read through the code and change the Subject and Content accordingly. Then compile and save it.
3. If you were already using Mail Rules to automate your reply to the buyer, then just replace the “Reply to Message” action with a “Run Applescript” action and browse to the AppleScript you have just saved. See screenshot below. You should now be good to go, be sure to test it thoroughly!

Code to copy:

using terms from application "Mail"
    on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
        tell application "Mail"
            repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
                -- We are going to extract the buyers email address from within the "()" in the email content
                set theContent to content of eachMessage
                try
                    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"(", ")"}
                    set contentParts to (every text item in theContent) as list
                    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
                    set emailOnly to item 2 of contentParts
                    -- The recipient of the email will be the buyers email address
                    set recipientAddress to emailOnly
                    -- Set your own Subject here
                    set theSubject to "Your Email Subject Here"
                    -- Set your own Content here
                    set theSendContent to "Your Email Content Here"
                    -- Create new Email using the subject and content set up above
                    set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theSendContent, visible:true}
                    tell theMessage
                        -- Set the recipient of the Email
                        make new to recipient with properties {address:recipientAddress}
                        -- Send the message
                        send
                    end tell
                end try
            end repeat
        end tell
    end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

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1. More people are viewing our site through mobile devices. Our new site is Responsive: You should see the layout adjust itself to fit the new width of the browser, even if you make the page as skinny as the resolution of a mobile phone. To see it in action, open this post on a desktop browser and slowly make the browser thinner and wider.
2. I like the old black background but have always thought that a white background looks more “friendly” and seeing as we are selling software on the site as well as our other activitys we have made the change

This page will tell you how to get the Google Analytics data of people that click on a PayPal button.

1. Add the correct Google Analytics code into your site

Add the new tracking code from Google into your header tag.

Taken from the Google site: “Copy the following code, then paste it onto every page you want to track immediately before the closing </head> tag.” (You will have to add your own Account number ‘XX-XXXXXX-X’)

<script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'XX-XXXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script>

2. Add the “event tracking” code into your PayPal form

This is the “event tracking” code:

onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'One', 'Two', 'Three']);"

This is the PayPal form code:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="XXX">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="XXX">
<input type="image" src="buy.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

And here is the google tracking code and the PayPal form together:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" onClick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'One', 'Two', 'Three']);">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="XXX">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="XXX">
<input type="image" src="buy.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

3. All done!

Load the page (checking “view source” to make sure the new code is there). Click your “buy” button and then wait. I find Google Analytics takes about an hour to update the analytics information

To find the event information in Google Analytics: click “Content” then click “Event Tracking” on the left hand side menu

4. Custom Reporting in Google Analytics

Check out this video on how to create custom reports for your events.

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Available at the moment is our software to organize your stamp collection. We would be very happy to adapt the software for your area of collecting. If you have a suggestion for us to add additional features to our software or to create a new app for your area of collecting please let us know using the comments form below.

Stamp Collector Software

We are happy to announce our second desktop application “Busy Bee Stamp Collector“, Stamp Collector for short. The software runs on all modern operating systems (Apple Mac, P.C & Linux / Ubuntu). The software will store and organize your entire stamp collection. We wanted to keep it really simple to start with – it basically allows users to enter the details of their stamps and load an image. The main stamp screen is very similar to the main Invoicing screen in Busy Bee Invoicing – the user can view a list of all their stamps, see it’s total value, see stamps by year etc, and can Add/Edit/Delete stamps easily. Included is the ability to import & export stamp details to a spreadsheet, and to print a PDF page giving stamp details. There will also be a gallery of all the stamp images and information.