Administration and Billing
Answers to common questions about administration and billing of your services with O’Brien Media
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Claiming a tax deduction for a website and/or website support for UK businesses (2024 update)
Most websites these days offer customers a method of ordering goods or services, communicating with their business and finding out detailed information on products or services.
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Covid-19 Precautions (November 2023)
Our risk-based approach has kept our offices clean and safe year after year. But the new normal calls for new measures and, using our existing approach as a foundation, we’ve enhanced our practices…
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General scale of charges, account fees, standard hosting features and quotas, domain name pricing
As an O’Brien Media customer you have the option of having your website hosted on our servers, our hosting platform is designed to be flexible and is configured to provide fast and stable hosting for…
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How do I know if a call, text, or email from O’Brien Media is real?
You can then confirm if the team member is from O’Brien Media by checking their email address.
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How Microsoft Quick Assist Helps Us Support You Remotely
To make remote support as simple and stress-free as possible, we often use a Windows tool called Microsoft Quick Assist. It lets us securely connect to your computer, see what’s happening on your…
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How we make better use of our subject lines in emails
At the start of 2022 we started to trial making better use of the subject lines in the emails we send. We started to use “FYI:” at the start of emails containing reports and other “information only”…
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If you’re using AI to compose your emails, we might ask for clarification. Here’s why…
At O’Brien Media, we often use AI tools to help draft and polish emails more quickly. While these technologies can jump-start your writing and keep your brand voice consistent, they don’t always…
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January 2023 Price Increase FAQ
We understand that no one likes price increases, and we’ve done our absolute best to absorb price increases from our suppliers over the past few years, but we’ve reached a tipping point where we’re…
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New Style Notification Emails for 2023
We’ve recently begun the process of changing the style and content of our notification emails to make them more user-friendly and accessible, and to make them more consistent across our various…
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O’Brien Media Analytics (WooCommerce) Plugin for WordPress
O’Brien Media Analytics (WooCommerce) connects your WordPress site to Matomo Analytics and automatically records key ecommerce interactions from WooCommerce. You’ll see how customers browse products,…
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Opt-out of postal marketing
Let us know that you no longer want to receive postal marketing materials from O’Brien Media in a few quick clicks.
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Pay an invoice or account balance
Do you know how to pay a bill or check your balance in your O’Brien Media’s account? It’s very simple.. Check the way here.
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Project Management Terms – What is Scope Creep?
Scope creep happens when extra features or changes are added to a website project that weren’t part of the original plan. This can make projects more complicated and lead to unexpected work.
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SEO Monitoring: Your site is returning the 400 error code.
If you’re seeing missing data in your SEO reports or receiving connection error messages, it’s likely that your website’s firewall or security service is blocking our SEO analysis tool from accessing…
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Service Status Page
We make our service status page, including any past maintenance and service issues, public - it’s also hosted outside of our network to ensure that it’s always available, even if the worst happens…
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Signing your O’Brien Media web design contract with Adobe Sign on a mobile device
Signing your O’Brien Media web design contract, or other documents, is handled via Adobe Sign allowing digital signatures to be used and speeding up the process of contract completion.
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Unsubscribe from Text Messages in Just One Step
To unsubscribe from SMS text message marketing from O’Brien Media just reply to the message with the keyword “STOP”
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Website support costs and charges relating to website changes and service cancellations
Our services don’t contain support time unless formally agreed, this is normally in the form of a support agreement for a certain amount of support minutes per month. All time our team spends working…
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What does ‘above zero’ or ‘below zero’ mean on my account balance?
Above Zero or Below Zero, we’re not talking weather, we’re talking account balances.
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What Is a Whitepaper?
Ever stumbled across the term “whitepaper” and wondered what it really means? You’re not alone. Whether you’re exploring new software, researching a vendor, or just curious about marketing jargon…
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What is my IP address?
Your IP address is shown on this page. Copy it and paste it into your reply to the support request asking for your IP address.
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What is the three-month rolling agreement and why is it different to my monthly payment cycle?
A three-month rolling agreement is a contractual arrangement where your commitment to our services lasts for three months, but this agreement renews every month.
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What is the transaction to obrienmedia.uk/card or obrienmedi* on my bank statement
When we take a card payment your bank statement will show a transaction to either obrienmedia.uk or obrienmdia.uk/card - this is a genuine transaction and you can find the associated invoice/payment…
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🔐 How to Open a Password-Protected PDF in Microsoft Edge
Note: Microsoft Edge won’t save the password for future access, so you’ll need to re-enter it each time unless the password is removed using PDF editing software.