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Credit Card Processing: Don’t Be Seduced by Teaser Rates

Credit Card Processing: Don’t Be Seduced by Teaser Rates

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with merchants to he... 6 Comments | Read More »

Layaway: Retro Purchasing Process Reappears Online

Layaway: Retro Purchasing Process Reappears Online

Layaway made a big retail comeback in 2011, with stores such as Sears, Walmart, and Kmart encouraging customers to take advanta... 0 Comments | Read More »

The Changing Online-Payments Landscape

The Changing Online-Payments Landscape

Most every ecommerce site accepts credit-card payments. But the type of cards that merchants accept can affect cart-abandonmen... 2 Comments | Read More »

10 Great Licensed Shopping Carts

10 Great Licensed Shopping Carts

Licensed ecommerce platforms are often the most flexible and powerful "shopping carts" available to online retailers, but they ... 10 Comments | Read More »

Credit Card Processing: 'Interchange-Plus' Pricing Not Necessarily Fair, Part 3

Credit Card Processing: 'Interchange-Plus' Pricing Not Necessarily Fair, Part 3

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a credit-card veteran who now consults with merchants on lowering their processing cos... 6 Comments | Read More »

8 Great SaaS Shopping Carts

8 Great SaaS Shopping Carts

Hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce solutions allow small online retailers to open functional online stores with a m... 4 Comments | Read More »

7 Worthy Magento Extensions

7 Worthy Magento Extensions

Ecommerce merchants often add features and functions to their sites to increase sales and performance. In this article, you'll... 2 Comments | Read More »

Credit Card Processing: 'Interchange-Plus' Pricing Not Necessarily Fair, Part 2

Credit Card Processing: 'Interchange-Plus' Pricing Not Necessarily Fair, Part 2

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a credit-card veteran who now consults with merchants on lowering their processing cos... 1 Comment | Read More »

An Overview of Magento Go

An Overview of Magento Go

Magento Go is the software-as-a-service ecommerce platform from Magento, a leading open-source ecommerce solution. Magento Go ... 1 Comment | Read More »

10 App Marketplaces for Open Source Shopping Carts

10 App Marketplaces for Open Source Shopping Carts

Many open source shopping carts can be customized with extensions or modules, created by an active developer community. Here ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Yahoo! General Manager on Platform Status, Future Upgrades

Yahoo! General Manager on Platform Status, Future Upgrades

Yahoo! Small Business remains a leading, hosted platform for ecommerce businesses. But the company itself has experienced turmoil... 0 Comments | Read More »

Credit Card Processing: 'Interchange-Plus' Pricing Not Necessarily Fair

Credit Card Processing: 'Interchange-Plus' Pricing Not Necessarily Fair

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a credit-card veteran who now consults with merchants on lowering their processing cos... 1 Comment | Read More »

18 Useful Extensions for OpenCart

18 Useful Extensions for OpenCart

OpenCart is a leading open-source ecommerce platform. With nearly 3,000 free and premium extensions available, OpenCart is also... 0 Comments | Read More »

Credit Card Salespeople Don’t Understand Ecommerce Merchants

Credit Card Salespeople Don’t Understand Ecommerce Merchants

This article is my latest installment on deceptive credit card practices that harm ecommerce merchants. I have worked in the cr... 0 Comments | Read More »

21 Bitcoin Currency Resources

21 Bitcoin Currency Resources

Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital currency. Unlike other virtual currencies—like Facebook credits, for instance—it is ... 2 Comments | Read More »

PCI Council General Manager on Status of Security Standards

PCI Council General Manager on Status of Security Standards

The PCI Security Standards represent self-regulation on the part of the major credit card brands to protect the security of consum... 0 Comments | Read More »

Goodsie Helpful for Beginning Entrepreneurs

Goodsie Helpful for Beginning Entrepreneurs

A new ecommerce platform helps novice ecommerce entrepreneurs get up and running quickly, but it limits choices and, perhaps, c... 0 Comments | Read More »

Understanding the New 'Durbin' Debit Card Rates; Exec Explains

Understanding the New 'Durbin' Debit Card Rates; Exec Explains

The Durbin Amendment to the U.S. Dodd-Frank legislative package affects ecommerce merchants. That's because the Amendment great... 0 Comments | Read More »

Credit Card Exec on Durbin Amendment, New Debit Card Rates

Credit Card Exec on Durbin Amendment, New Debit Card Rates

The Durbin Amendment to the U.S. Dodd-Frank legislative package affects ecommerce merchants. That's because the Amendment greatly ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Understanding Credit Card Fees, Part 2: Merchant Account Fees and Charges

Understanding Credit Card Fees, Part 2: Merchant Account Fees and Charges

In “Understanding Credit Card Fees, Part 1: The Basics,” I outlined the information you need to know to receive the best rates ... 2 Comments | Read More »

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