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A Quick Guide to Paying for Hosting

Friday, March 13th, 2009

For your convenience, this is a quick guide of the many ways to make payments to Spiral Hosting.

  1. Credit Cards (recommended)
    • We accept all major credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, Laser cards and also 3V top-up cards.
    • Credit Cards are processed by Realex Payments. They are Europe’s leading payment processor with clients such as Aer Lingus and Vodafone Ireland.
    • Advantage: If you wish you can keep your credit card encrypted and securely stored on our client area, we will automatically bill your renewals to save you the hassle or worry of your services expiring.
  2. PayPal.com
    • PayPal allows you to pay money from your credit card, bank account or PayPal account balance.
    • Advantage: No need to register (depending on your country). Accepts American Express.
  3. 2Checkout.com
    1. 2Checkout is our secondary credit card processor. For many years we used them for all credit card processing, and many customers still choose 2Checkout.
  4. Bank Transfer
    1. Some clients prefer to send us BAC/IBAN transfers. If you’d like to do this, please open a support ticket so we can give you our bank account details.
    2. Also, please tell our Billing Dept when you have initiated a bank transfer, so we know to look out for your payment.
  5. Mail In Payment
    1. We accept cheques in the post. Please cross cheques and make payable to Spiral Hosting Ltd. Also, include details of the account holder or invoice number! Our postal address is at the top of all invoices.
    2. If you are paying to renew hosting, please ensure payment reaches us in time. To avoid any downtime please allow plenty of time for the payment to clear. We cannot credit your account until the funds have cleared with our bank.
    3. Lastly, it sounds obvious – but our business operates in Euro!
      If you are paying in another currency please send too much money instead of too little! Any change left over will be added to your account balance for future purchases.
      Costs incurred on cashing/converting foreign currency cheques will be deducted from the final amount added to your balance.

Need to contact our Billing Dept?
We’re here to help. Please open a support ticket or email/phone us.

Christmas Opening Hours

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Customer support will be available every day throughout the Christmas holidays 24/7 as normal via our support centre.

Our sales & billing phone number will close at 5pm on 19th December (for our staff Christmas party!) and it will also be unavailable on 25th and 31st December, and 1st January. It will be operating as normal on all other dates.

Postal strike – office mail affected

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Customers should note that post to and from our Belfast office may currently be delayed due to the current postal strike. This is only affecting a very small amount of customers, as most of our communication is online.

Also, we are advising customers who normally make payments by cheque to consider alternatively methods such as credit card payment or bank transfer.

New Dublin phone number now live

Friday, August 24th, 2007

spiral hosting hotline

Our phone system has been upgraded and we’ve added a new Dublin number. There’s still some fine tuning to do but we are happy with it so far.

So, call Spiral Hosting on 01 657 1821

Our other number (048 9002 5008) is still operational as usual.

Buy hosting and domains with 3V voucher cards

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

3v vouchers accepted here!

3V is a scheme between Permenant TSB bank and Visa. Consumers who don’t own a credit card or don’t want to use one can still buy our hosting and domain services online using 3V vouchers.

You can register for 3V vouchers as long as you are over 16, live in Ireland or the UK, have an email address and a mobile phone. You don’t need a bank account and there are no lengthy application forms, credit checks or interest charges. 3V vouchers are available online from 3V Ireland and 3V UK, and are also sold by most Payzone retailers.

A few customers have expressed an interest in purchasing hosting using 3V vouchers, so this is to clarify, both Spiral Hosting’s payment processors (2Checkout and PayPal) accept 3V vouchers. Simply enter the voucher number and the expiry date like it’s a normal debit/credit card, and the money will be credited to your Spiral Hosting account balance as usual, once it’s been processed and passed the fraud checks.

Spiral Hosting new bank account details

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Please note our new bank account details.

Customers who have made payments to us by bank transfer in the past should receive an email with the details. If you have any questions, or you are a customer who makes recurring payments by Direct Debit, please contact your account manager.

Sales team testing new ‘let us call you’ service

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Our sales department are testing out a new service called “Let us call you”.

Our advisors are happy to phone you to discuss server, hosting, email and domain registration solutions. We welcome all enquiries from prospective commercial customers or individuals. You can choose the day and time you wish them to phone.

Please open any requests here.

It is only available to residents in the UK and Ireland, and our sales team cannot assist you with billing or support issues.

This is a beta service and we appreciate any feedback you have.