Most emails you send from Cameo are either mailshots or part of the membership life-cycle workflow (such as a renewal reminder). Sometimes, though, you want to email someone, as you would through an ordinary email app: use one-off message for these. Sometimes you find similar emails going to multiple people over time: use canned message templates for these. Read More…
Gift vouchers
Cameo supports unique voucher codes which customers can use as a payment method in any form which takes payments. For example, for
* gift memberships,
* concert bookings, or
* merchandise.
They work like mobile phone top-up cards.
For example, this means someone can purchase a voucher and give it to someone else as a gift membership, without the data protection problems of the original purchaser needing to provide a third party’s details. Or they can gift a ticket voucher without needing to decide which particular concert for the recipient. Read More…
Payment processors supported by Cameo
Cameo supports several services and companies – payment processors – which can take payments for you in forms, either recurrent or one-off.
This article summarises how these relate to Cameo’s payment methods and bank accounts. It lists the providers available, with details about each. Read More…
Login to Cameo with a Passkey
Passkeys are the “new black” in the world of authentication! Cameo has supported logging in with a passkey long before they were called passkeys. Now, password managers and many websites are starting to support passkeys, which makes logins easier and safer. Read More…
About image resolution
Image resolution is a measure of the density of pixels in a picture. More loosely speaking it is a measure of image quality and a trade-off between how people perceive pictures and how much resource they use. You need to know about image resolution so that your pictures look good in emails and on paper. Read More…
Renewal reminders, first time
You’ll need to set dates when you use renewal reminders for the first time. These will advance in step, month by month, unless you change them manually in the future. So it is helpful to think about these carefully at the start. Read More…
About spam block lists
Some email recipient services use privately run spam block lists to filter incoming emails. For each email they receive, recipients ask whether the IP address of the server where the email originates is on a block list. It is then up to the recipient email provider how they act on that information. Read More…
Logging in using Chrome password manager
There is a catastrophic bug in Chrome’s password manager, where it confuses and overwrites passwords belonging to websites whose URLs use different sub-domains of the same domain name. For example, when you use two entirely different login pages, such as https://www.example.com/wp-login.php and https://cameo.example.com/login, you can lose the password for the former. It is possible to persuade Chrome to get this right, but it takes a little effort. Read More…
Card fraud prevention measures: new website requirements
One advantage of using a third-party payment provider, such as Stripe, is that they fulfil the standards required by the Payment Card Industry to take payments online. However, a new version of these standards makes some significant requirements of web pages that host card payment forms. You will need to abide by to continue to take card payments. Neither Cameo nor Stripe can do this for you! It is a requirement of your website. Read More…
Taking deposits for events
You can now take partial payments for events – a deposit – and manage the balance due. There are several changes to support this spread throughout Cameo and described here. Read More…