Contact Checker Pro - product update

As many of you will be aware, we are working on a new product that validates email addresses in "bulk". Here is a quick update on where we are with this.

Progress

We've opted to offer this new service as a server based solution. This means that you simply upload your emails, we do the work and send you the results. This approach has many advantages including:

• No software for you do download, install and maintain
• Far more accurate validation results (see my previous post)

Server software

We currently have the core validation service completed and it runs sweet! In tests, we are able to validate thousands of email addresses per hour. Our server software is multi-thread and multi-server capable meaning that we can scale out to ensure that performance is not affected by demand.

We currently have the capability to validate campaigns / lists of several hundred thousand addresses.

Client / user interface

We also have the core of a basic user interface in place. From this interface, customers can manage their bulk validations. Here is what we have at the moment:

• Import emails to the system using copy/paste.
• Contact list that can be filtered by validation status ("Good", "Bad", "Blocked").
• Ability to export results to CSV, Word, Excel and PDF.
• The capability to email directly from the user interface using our rich text capable editor.

Offering

We are now putting the product proposition and pricing in place.

The product will be available on a one-off and a subscription model giving customers total flexibility on how to use the product in their business.

We'll be offering free trials together with low cost monthly plans to help businesses budgets in this tough economic climate.

We'll also be changing our pricing model for Contact Checker Pro (WebService) from annual to monthly.