Shopping Carts & Online Payments
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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! 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 »
