The account page looks 100% the same as it was, they only changed the header. Now things look out of place.
Two Namecheap employees commented already about this saying that the account area's redesign is also underway ;)
Namecheap has rebranded
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#62Happy NameCheap customer with 35+ domains here. This is the worst redesign I've seen in a long time but has a really well redesigned logo. Sorry. Looks like they're trying to fit their content in one of those Generic Fad Layout Templates you find on ThemeForest. The LOGO is awesome though. ● Registering a domain is now harder. Before I could select a dropdown menu and see all the TLD options. Now I can't. ● Did you k…
As a customer with over 100 domains, the new redesign is quite the eyesore. My main reason for choosing Namecheap was because it was technically designed, minimalistic, and had good prices. The new design says flat hipsterism with a splash of web 2.0 fruityness. It's not in the spirit of Namecheap. Something tells me that this design came from an external source. Why change for changesake? Eek.
How is the old website minimalistic? While I do agree the new design is confusing and put too much in form over function, the old website is way too cluttered IMO.
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#63Happy NameCheap customer with 35+ domains here. This is the worst redesign I've seen in a long time but has a really well redesigned logo. Sorry. Looks like they're trying to fit their content in one of those Generic Fad Layout Templates you find on ThemeForest. The LOGO is awesome though. ● Registering a domain is now harder. Before I could select a dropdown menu and see all the TLD options. Now I can't. ● Did you k…
Over 100+ domains. Took me a bit to figure out where to login.
Once I did the backend is completely the same :-/. That's not terrible, but it looks incredibly awkward next to the new design.
By "rebrand" I thought they were changing name, etc - but it seems like the whole thing is less clear.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 Anything is better then "The Internet Needs People. To tell stories, open stores and share what matters." Talk about going full-retard. Or full-Oprah. The Internet needs registrars that publish their prices. Ok, I found the pricing page. You have to scroll down to the bottom.
I commented elsewhere that you can find the pricing page. It's not that hidden and the pricing is not super expensive. We're a pretty ethical bunch at Namecheap. We have donated over $200k to EFF in the last 2-3 years and will be doing a similar initiative soon. Give us a try and I think you'll agree.
I've been using you guys exclusively for the last year or so. Great prices, great service, no spam, keep it up!
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#66Just a heads up if you're planning on using namecheap. I transferred a bunch of domains (around 70 or so) and they just refused to provide me with an invoice, so I couldn't deduct the expenses from my company's taxes. They will only sent you receipts, which are completely useless if you're in EU (and I think refusing to provide an invoice is even illegal here).
You should know that most US companies don't do full-fledged European style invoices. Who told you receipts are useless for company expenses though, that's simply not true.
In my experience, most US companies don't provide EU style invoices for everyone, but every single time I've asked for one, I got it, except for namecheap - and trust me, I asked multiple times. Receipts are useless in most EU countries, since you need a valid invoice to claim the expense. That includes listing both the buyer and seller legal names, addresses, what was sold, etc... as well as VAT numbers (or local equivalent).
Re: Namecheap has rebranded
#67Just a heads up if you're planning on using namecheap. I transferred a bunch of domains (around 70 or so) and they just refused to provide me with an invoice, so I couldn't deduct the expenses from my company's taxes. They will only sent you receipts, which are completely useless if you're in EU (and I think refusing to provide an invoice is even illegal here).
You don't need an invoice for a company expense. How do you think people claim back for things bought in a shop?
Not everyone is in US. See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7086631. If you want to claim an expense for something you bought in a shop, you need to ask for an invoice at the time of the sale. In fact, even non-business entities can ask for an invoice (even if it's useless to them) and is illegal for the seller to refuse.
Re: Namecheap has rebranded
#68Just a heads up if you're planning on using namecheap. I transferred a bunch of domains (around 70 or so) and they just refused to provide me with an invoice, so I couldn't deduct the expenses from my company's taxes. They will only sent you receipts, which are completely useless if you're in EU (and I think refusing to provide an invoice is even illegal here).
We don't and have never had a system for invoices--nor have I seen that anywhere else. You do get a whole record of your purchases with the full amount spent. We do appreciate the feedback though while we build out the interface even further!
I voiced my feedback before I left, several times in fact. Not that it stopped you from sending me emails asking why I was transferring the domains out.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Companies allocate money into a contra account (to the leave liability) each period (i.e. monthly) so that its all "accounting money". Otherwise companies would go bankrupt if too many staff took leave at a time. That is while staff with large leave balances look bad, they don't effect the profitability of the organisation.
In that case there is something I don't understand. If the company has a debt and an offsetting asset pegged specifically to that use, why does it look bad? If anything, that should look good: "we owe $X to employees at 0bps interest and we have $X in the bank at 40bps."
It looks bad because they have a large liability on there balance sheet. Also you have to remember that your leave entitlement stays the same if you get promoted/ pay rise so the organisation actually has to pay more then what they've offset
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. Accounting isn't my thing at all. I recently heard that a previous employer of mine was begging staff to take some leave as all the leave on their books is somehow counted as a debt and it makes the books better if people burn off some of their accrued leave. People were forced to take 2-3 month holidays to clear their 10+ years of leave they had saved up. Quite how the workplace functioned with so many on le…
Prepaid services are technically a debt, but a very low risk one. In contrast, paid leave is a high risk liability - an employee with 4 months accrued leave can quit at any time and they are owed 4 months of pay when they do. (I think the company can opt to pay out their 4 months of leave over the course of 4 months to smooth cash flow issues, but I'm not sure of this.)
The employer I worked for operated under one of the 2 systems allowed by New Zealand law. Leave is accrued as a percentage of hours worked. Overtime and penal rates could have one of two effects. Either the hourly rate payed out when on leave was increased, or the amount of leave you got increased as you did more shifts, call etc. They did the latter. The odd bit was that you earned leave while on leave (which I supposed has to happen). So after I was paid out when I left, I wrote to them and asked if the 3 months leave owed entitled me to an extra percentage as I'd have earned leave while on leave had I taken it. They paid me. So I wrote again, and they paid me again. Obviously this had rapidly decreasing returns, but it struck me as rather funny.