Just a quick update on how Auto PeakTrace RP charges for traces processed. Officially it has always been that if you set the good base improvement to value great than −10 (i.e −9 and higher) then you would be charged for traces that are not improved by PeakTrace. This rule was to stop the abuse of the PeakTrace server, as well as to encourage users to set sensible values (the default −20 is best). Setting the good base improvement to value higher than −10 is far from optimal.
We have until now not enforced this rule, but unfortunately some people have not used this freedom sensibly and so we have reluctantly started enforcing this rule. If you have been using a good base improvement value of greater than −10 then we highly recommend setting it back to a value below this (i.e. the default −20 is best).
One final tip. If you are having problems entering a negative number in the good base improvement box you can do it by pressing the reset button on the options window and then modifying the number, or by copy and pasting in the negative value from a text document. We will be making it easier to enter a negative number for this value in the next release.