Harris Retail Services Ltd., specialising in Out-of-Hours Rota Systems, Security, SMS (Short Message Text Services) and Communications. With many years experience in retail at all levels, we can provide advice and help to all sizes of businesses. The Harris Online Rota System is used by many Primary Care Out-of-Hours providers, Urgent Care providers and Locum providers is by far the easiest way to organise GPs (and other user types) shifts for an out-of-hours organisation. The associated payments system will even automatically generate and store SOLO forms to GPs together with pro-forma invoices (for GPs to download, print and present for payment), thus drastically simplifying the payment cycle and helping to ensure the self-employed status of the GPs.

As the former IT director of a large specialist retailer, Harris Retail Systems founder, Antony Harris designed and oversaw the production and roll-out of a card loyalty scheme which now handles in excess of 5 million members and had systems installed in the UK, France, Sweden and Denmark as well as introducing a wide variety of technologies taking the company from a £56M turnover to over £650M. Prior to that he wrote HIT Video, the most widely used video library management system used in the UK.

We also provide a number of Web Based services from web design, web and email hosting to domain name registration. Specialising in Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL we can provide fully transactional websites and hosting facilities. Web hosting with a CPanel interface is now available from only £5.00 per month!

Introduction

We have been providing SMS text services since Vodafone first introduced their SMS system in the 1990s. Our SMS services allow sending of bulk messages from the desktop or through integration to your systems. Our systems are robust and can be integrated into your own website and we are able to provide delivery reports where the destination network supports it.

We can provide an enhanced SNPP (simple Network Paging Protocol) interface, or a simple API for integration with your own systems.

Our web interface for sending text messages provides the ability to create your own address book and to segregate destinations to an unlimited number of groups. In addition to that, we have also developed a template system which allows the setting up of pre-determined text and the messages are sent according to the template selected. This can be extremely useful for confirming appointments and providing additional information to the destination user such as address, time or even linked websites or additional information (such as a link to a map). This feature proved very useful during the height of the Corona Virus epidemic in confirming patient appointments and providing additional information on attendance at a unit.

Integrated to existing systems using the provided API, it is possible to completely automate the sending of SMS messages.

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Hosting Services Available:

• Dedicated Servers
• Virtual Servers
• Windows Servers
• Linux Servers
• CPanel Hosted Servers
• Domain Name Registration
• Email Systems
• System Monitoring

Our unique system monitors check the availability of services provided once every minute, to ensure minimal downtime and maximum availability of services. Specially crafted backup systems provide secure backups in the event of any failure and with high levels of security to keep your data safe.

In addition, using our monitoring system we can ensure that all the latest security updates are applied to your server in a timely and regular manner. In most cases we run updates every night and if a kernel update is required, we schedule a reboot at the next convenient time. This ensures that any security update is installed as soon as is possible.

Technology available include:

With many years of experience in the Unix/Linux environment and the running and maintenance of large databases, we are able to provide expert help in hosting and maintaining your servers.

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System Monitoring

Our monitoring systems are designed to check your server and services every minute 24/7, 365 days of the year.

We can monitor your:

• Web Server
• Database Server
• Email Systems

In addition for individual servers we can monitor and give early warning of:

• Domain Name Expiration
• SSL Certificate Expiry
• Low Disk Space
• Low Memory
• Excessive Core Temperatures
• Server Room Temperature & humidity

Never have a security certificate expire without being warned, or your domain name renewal being missed. These are problems that blight even the largest technology companies and cause extended downtime. You may have the best hardware, duplicated power supplies, multiple connectivity pathways and fully redundant RAID systems or cloud services, but an expired domain or SSL certificate can bring down your system until the situation is resolved. Too many times, a domain name expires and there is a rush to get it renewed only to find that the one person who has access to the domain is not immediately available or there is a problem with the login credentials. By setting a 30 or 45 day warning the domain or security certificate can be renewed in a timely manner without any downtime.

Security

No system can be completely secure. But companies must take rigorous steps to ensure that their systems are as secure as possible.

From anti-virus to password management and staff training, we can provide everything necessary to keep your office systems safe and secure.

We can help with your disaster recovery plan (as it relates to your IT) so you can ensure business continuity for all eventualities.

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