http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled Interview: buySAFE Founder On The Future Of Shopping Carts en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:51:28 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment12749 I am building a vertical social network e-commerce site (aka s-commerce) where any member can be a buyer and/or a seller. I want to use an inexpensive escrow service for these members to begin transacting with each other but I cannot find any. I have a number of reasons why escrow services will be very important for future s-commerce sites at my blog http://mytechneeds.wordpress.com. Please give my your suggestions. Thank you. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:51:28 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment12749 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4618 As Michelle indicated above, professional shopping cart systems like Volusion or ProductCart contain scores of order management features (batch processing, order editing, shipping label printing, etc.), and even an XML-based API for more sophisticated users to integrate with external systems. With regards to the percentage of people that are not buying online: I believe that it could be useful to point out that there are two very different issues here. (1) People that are not buying on the Internet (2) People that are not buying from your web store Having something like a HackerSafe or buySafe logo on your Web store (two different services, but both focused on the perceived security of the shopping experience) will do little with regard to increasing visits to the store. They will help with higher conversions (scenario 2 mentioned above), as they certainly increase the overall "comfort" level. I definitely agree with Steve when in the interview above mentioned that "the... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:42:18 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4618 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4145 Miva Merchant is no longer owned or affiliated with MIVA Corp. We purchased the company back from them on August 1st of this year. You can find more information on our homepage www.mivamerchant.com Thanks, Rick EVP, Miva Merchant Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:05:19 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4145 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4142 Good article about the maturing environment of online transactions. Can still remember when the first carts by Thawte appeared. Transactions have progressed since the early 90's. Using several carts for clients at the moment and have one client using Miva. The Miva cart seems to working well and the client is happy with the storefront. "Don't fix it if it ain't broke". But my concern with Miva is as a stock Miva (symbol MIVA) http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MIVA has been performing very poorly over the past year. Have look at the stock chart: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=MIVA Anyone else concerned about this? Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:31:11 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4142 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4109 Actually, there are quite a few shopping carts out there that integrate sales activity with order management. Our cart even allows you to print shipping labels from your Admin Area for orders placed on your site. --Michelle Greer www.volusion.com Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:05:28 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4109 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4087 One of the short-falls of shopping carts in general is that they stop at the end of the checkout phase. Some provide order listing or the ability to cut/paste a tracking number and some also provide a way to generate an email to a customer. However, there continues to be separation between the cart (sales) activity and the fulfillment side (order/inventory management). That's where a product/service like http;//www.ez-order-manager.com comes in to help. What's forgotten is that most of a seller's time is spent in fulfillment and managing the back-end of their business. This is where costs are reduced and margins are increased. Effective tools to help with this not only saves money and time, but enables sellers to focus on driving more revenue into their site rather than spending their time shuffling through the order/inventory back end process. tonyb@ez-order-manager.com Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:43:11 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/605/Interview-buySAFE-Founder-On-The-Future-Of-Shopping-Carts/#comment4087