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Everything we sell is delivered digitally. This page states, product by product, exactly what you receive the moment a payment is confirmed - and what honestly follows later.
Last updated: 3 September 2026
Every product Technology Fist sells is a digital service delivered on our own platform. Nothing physical is shipped, ever, and no delivery address is collected for that purpose. Where a purchase is processed by a merchant-of-record partner, that partner is the seller of record for the transaction and its terms also apply; delivery is still made by us, as described below.
One rule governs this whole page: we never describe something as instant unless the platform makes it instant. Where a step waits for a background job or a person, this page says so.
AMS software licences are delivered electronically. On payment confirmation, and automatically: your venue workspace is created and ready to use, your organizer account is created and its login details are emailed to you, and your receipt is issued inside AMS. This is typically complete within minutes and in every case within 24 hours.
A renewal extends your licence period in the same step that confirms the payment - the same acronym, registration link and website stay exactly as they are - and your receipt is issued at once. A website upgrade switches your public website and program builder on at that same moment. A capacity upgrade applies the new submission band immediately; if submissions were paused at the old limit they reopen right away. A publishing upgrade moves the venue onto AMS Core Plus & Publishing at once, without changing your licence end date. None of these has a waiting period.
Where a venue charges an Article Processing Charge (APC) or a Pre-Publication Processing Charge (PPC), the payment is confirmed automatically and processing starts straight away. The moment it is confirmed you receive: a printable receipt; your paper moved into production; a processing tracker on your paper page, updated at every step; a DOI reserved and shown to you where the venue publishes in the Technology Fist Digital Library (it is registered when the article goes live); the camera-ready format check queued and running in the background; the similarity check queued where the venue has one configured; and a confirmation email.
What the fee does not buy is publication itself. Publication follows the venue’s editorial workflow - your approval of the proof and the editor’s publication step - and, where proceedings go to an external publisher, that publisher’s own acceptance and presentation requirements. No fee purchases an editorial decision; see our Refund & Cancellation Policy.
Posting is free on every collection. Where a collection charges a posting fee, it is shown before you post: your content is moderated first, and once moderation is passed the preprint page goes live the moment the payment is confirmed, with a confirmation email and a direct link.
Publishing fees are billed to the venue when its papers are ready for release. Paying a release invoice releases those papers to the publishing queue immediately and, on your first invoice, switches on your venue’s public publication page; your receipt is issued at once. The released papers are then picked up by an automatic intake that runs every few minutes, and each one is published by your editor once its proof is approved and its DOI and final PDF are in place - publication is an editorial step, not an automatic consequence of payment.
Bank transfer is the one payment method with a human step: a person on our team confirms the transfer. Everything described above then follows once we have confirmed it - not at the moment you send the money. Every other rail (card, PayPal, Bank Alfalah) is confirmed automatically by the provider, with no office hours and no manual queue.
If you have paid and not received the service within 24 hours of payment confirmation, email info@techfist.org with the receipt number shown on your AMS receipt. We will deliver, or refund under the Refund & Cancellation Policy. This policy does not affect rights you hold under mandatory consumer law in your country.