In response to feedback you gave us, if you use HostPay to process orders and manage your customers you now have access to a staging platform where you can experiment and make changes to your site without having to make them live.

The intended purpose of our staging platform is so that your customers can continue to use your existing live site while you make modifications on the staging platform. Once you are happy with your changes, you can then apply them to your live site.

Set up your staging platform

You will find a link to the set up page at the bottom of the “Customise end user Control Panel” page. This link will take you to the brand new “Install HostPay staging site”. Simply follow the instructions and click on ‘Install HostPay staging now’.

Using your staging platform

You are now ready to get started. You can choose to change the theme of your staging area and play with a new look, transfer live files across to the staging areas to start making changes to existing files, as well as view the order confirmation pages etc. Note: If you put through an order in the staging area and HostPay is not in test mode, it will be processed as a genuine order by HostPay.

You asked us for this so it would be great if yet us now how you get on with this new feature. If you have any ideas how we can improve it let us know via your reseller feedback form.