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Cart of the Week: MightyMerchant Offers Full-Service Ecommerce Platform

Cart of the Week: MightyMerchant Offers Full-Service Ecommerce Platform

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. In this, our “Cart Of The Week” feature, we’ll profile—b... 0 Comments | Read More »

New PCI Compliance Standards Take Effect

New PCI Compliance Standards Take Effect

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council recently released a new version of its Data Security Standard (DSS),... 0 Comments | Read More »

Cart of the Week: Interspire “Obsesses Over Quality”

Cart of the Week: Interspire “Obsesses Over Quality”

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. This includes licensed carts, hosted carts, and open-sou... 0 Comments | Read More »

Cart Of The Week: ShopSite

Cart Of The Week: ShopSite

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. This includes licensed carts, hosted carts, and open-sou... 0 Comments | Read More »

Cart of the Week: Miva Merchant

Cart of the Week: Miva Merchant

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. This includes licensed carts, hosted carts, and open-sou... 3 Comments | Read More »

Amazon Payment Service Allows for Advanced Options

Amazon Payment Service Allows for Advanced Options

Amazon.com has been offering a beta version of its Flexible Payment Service (FPS) to merchants for almost a year now. With many... 1 Comment | Read More »

Cart Of The Week: Shopify

Cart Of The Week: Shopify

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. This includes licensed carts, hosted carts and open-sour... 12 Comments | Read More »

Safe Ways To Accept International Payments

Safe Ways To Accept International Payments

Many ecommerce businesses receive international orders for both single items as well as large quantities. These businesses usua... 1 Comment | Read More »

Shopping Cart Functionality Can Increase Sales

Shopping Cart Functionality Can Increase Sales

The tenet of customer service in the online shopping process is simple: the more you engage potential customers, and provide li... 10 Comments | Read More »

Third-Party Integrations Make Shopping Carts Easier To Use

Third-Party Integrations Make Shopping Carts Easier To Use

By day Sean Dupuis is a courier for FedEx. By night, he sends out packages of his own: boxes of boots and moccasins and sheepsk... 3 Comments | Read More »

Shopping Carts And Search Engines

Shopping Carts And Search Engines

When searching for “educational toys” on Google, at No. 5 on the list you’ll find BrainwavesToys.com—up from No. 78 a year ago.... 5 Comments | Read More »

Magento Shopping Cart And 20,000 Friends

Magento Shopping Cart And 20,000 Friends

Roy Rubin held the cyber equivalent of a barn raising and had several thousand of his closest friends over for the event. Of co... 18 Comments | Read More »

Quick Query: Credit Card Expert Stresses Integrity

Quick Query: Credit Card Expert Stresses Integrity

Virtually every ecommerce merchant processes credit card payments. We asked Michael Shatz, publisher of The Merchant’s Guide, a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Field Test:  Shopping Carts, Part Three Of Three

Field Test: Shopping Carts, Part Three Of Three

In Field Test, Practical eCommerce has gathered twelve seasoned ecommerce merchants and asked each of them the same questions a... 3 Comments | Read More »

Many Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 3 of 3

Many Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 3 of 3

This is the third and final installment in a series outlining and explaining tools to identify and prevent credit card fraud. P... 0 Comments | Read More »

Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 2 Of 3

Effective Tools to Detect Stolen Credit Cards, Part 2 Of 3

Many online merchants are already on board with fraud-detection technology. To fill in the gaps, here is part two of a comprehe... 5 Comments | Read More »

PCI Compliance Is

PCI Compliance Is "Industry Self-Regulation"

The major credit card companies, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, have collaborated on minimum payment-processi... 2 Comments | Read More »

Debate: Hosted Shopping Carts

Debate: Hosted Shopping Carts "Perfect For Most Entrepreneurs"

1ShoppingCart is a hosted shopping cart with thousands of small business customers. Michael Valiant, 1ShoppingCart's product ma... 10 Comments | Read More »

Debate: Licensed Carts Offer Flexibility and Portability

Debate: Licensed Carts Offer Flexibility and Portability

ProductCart is a licensed shopping cart used by thousands of ecommerce merchants. We asked its CEO, Massimo Arrigoni, whether ... 12 Comments | Read More »

Quick Query: Alternative Payment Option eBillme

Quick Query: Alternative Payment Option eBillme

Marwan Forzley is president and CEO of online payment alternative eBillme (Modasolutions.com), formerly known as SECURE-eBill. ... 7 Comments | Read More »

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