We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your business throughout the year.  You have made 2011 a great year. 

We are proud to announce our newly redesigned website.  This will be available to view on January 16^th.  Please view our website at http://www.e3tek.com on Monday the 16^th, to see our new web presence.  We encourage you to navigate the site and give us your feedback. 

Current News

Credit Card Fees Are Growing
The total cost of credit/debit fees to convenience stores in 2010 was $9.0 billion, nearly triple the $3.2 billion in fees a recent as in 2003. The total cost of credit card fees in 2010 exceeded convenience store industry profits ($6.5 billion), meaning the credit card industry took in more at the stores than the store owners themselves for the fifth straight year.
Credit card fees are the second-largest expense at the store level. Only labor costs are more.
Particularly elevated motor fuels prices, retailers are seeing the impact of credit card transaction fees. The overall increase in average annual gas prices led to a significant increase in the use of credit cards at the pump. NACS estimates that 60 percent to 70 percent of all motor fuels purchases are now paid with plastic, but that figure can climb to as much as 90 percent of all transactions when prices are climbing. Compounding this problem, retailers pay more in credit/debit fees when prices are elevated. Because debit/credit fees are largely percentage based, retailer pay more in fees when prices are higher, even though they are selling the same amount of product. The debit/credit card companies are one of the few beneficiaries of higher gas prices.
Read more: http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/News/FactSheets/IndustryIssues/Pages/CreditCardFeesaGrowingChallengeforConvenienceStores.aspx

• New look to the register and pump toolbar.
• The "Prepay Refund" menu option on the pump toolbar is no longer an option unless there is an actual pending prepaid refund available.
• The register 10key is displaying a header to indicate what input is required.
• Generating finance charges now allows a balance date to be entered.
• Statements can now be generated for a single customer, group of customers, or all customers.
• Manage credit now has the ability to be password protected.
• Report options without logos.
• Sales by Payment  Method (New Report)
• Prices per gallon extends to 3 decimal places on various reports
• New tab under customers "Notes"
• New tab under customers "Invoices"

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Optimize your computer for peak performance
Clean up disk errors
Whenever a program crashes or you experience a power outage, your computer may create errors on its hard disk (sometimes referred to as a hard drive). Over time, the errors can result in a slow PC. Fortunately, the Windows operating system includes several PC tools, including a Check Disk program, to identify and clean any errors on your computer and to help keep it running smoothly.
Remove temporary files
Your computer can pick up and store temporary files when you're looking at web pages and even when you're working on files in programs, such as Microsoft Word. Over time, these files slow your computer's performance. You can use the Windows Disk Cleanup tool to rid your computer of these unneeded files and to help your PC run faster.
Optimize your data
As you add programs and files to your computer, it often breaks files side by side to increase the speed of access and retrieval. However, as files are updated, your computer saves these updates on the largest space available on the hard drive, often found far away from the other adjacent sectors of the file.
The result is a fragmented file. Fragmented files cause slower performance because your computer must now search for all of the file's parts. In other words, your computer knows where all the pieces are, but putting them back together in the correct order—when you need them—can slow your computer down.
Windows includes a Disk Defragmenter program to piece all your files back together again and to make them available to open more quickly.
Automate Windows Update
Microsoft works constantly to release updates to Windows and other Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office. With Windows Update, you can find and install all these updates—not just the critical ones. Often, the updates can improve your computer's performance.
You can make life easier by automating Windows Update so that your computer downloads and installs all the updates without you having to worry about them.