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17 Ecommerce Themes for OpenCart

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 »

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