Shopping Carts & Online Payments
17 Ecommerce Themes for OpenCart
OpenCart is an open-source shopping cart system that is feature-rich and user-friendly, with a large variety of payment gateway... 0 Comments | Read More »
How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 1: The Basics
Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with merchants to he... 2 Comments | Read More »
5 Steps to Prepare for Google Shopping
In "Cheaper Clicks from AdWords Coming?," I encouraged merchants to try Google's Product Listing Ads because they produce excep... 2 Comments | Read More »
Visa, MasterCard Settlement Not an Automatic Win for Merchants
Visa, MasterCard and 13 of the country's biggest banks have agreed to pay $7.25 billion to retailers in a settlement from a law... 1 Comment | Read More »
ShopRunner May Help Merchants Compete with Amazon Prime
For consumers, the cost of shipping has been one of the major drawbacks of ecommerce. During the last holiday season, free ship... 1 Comment | Read More »
Setting Up an Amazon Webstore
Amazon offers a software as a service ecommerce platform with solutions ranging from a quick shopping cart for individual selle... 3 Comments | Read More »
Avoid Credit Card Processing Proposals with AVS Fees
Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with merchants to he... 2 Comments | Read More »
15 Personalized Shopping Cart Icons
Custom icons can help a site design and personalize the online shopping experience. Shopping cart icons are some of the more po... 0 Comments | Read More »
3 Tips for Managing Shopping Cart Abandonment
Recent studies indicate that 7 out of 10 online shopping carts are exited before a sale is completed. This abandonment rate see... 3 Comments | Read More »
Credit Card Processing: Red Flags for Ecommerce Merchants, Part 3
Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with ecommerce merch... 2 Comments | Read More »
PayPal, Others Envision Payment Convergence
The new PayPal Here smartphone-enabled credit card reader is the most recent indication of how electronic payments will likely ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Credit Card Processing: Red Flags for Ecommerce Merchants, Part 2
Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with ecommerce merch... 1 Comment | Read More »
CyberSource Exec on Credit Card Fraud, Steps to Prevent
Most every ecommerce merchant has experienced credit card fraud. Credit card companies try to prevent payment fraud, of course,... 0 Comments | Read More »
CyberSource Exec on State of Credit Card Fraud
Most every ecommerce merchant has experienced credit card fraud in some manner. Credit card companies try to prevent payment frau... 0 Comments | Read More »
10 Innovative Ecommerce Sites
What follows is my view of ten excellent ecommerce sites, each offering innovative ideas in navigation, images, and content mar... 5 Comments | Read More »
Credit Card Processing: Red Flags for Ecommerce Merchants, Part 1
Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with ecommerce merch... 8 Comments | Read More »
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 »
