Shopping Carts & Online Payments
CartSpan Founder on Peachtree Accounting Integration
Virtually all merchants utilize accounting software. They typically transfer sales and customer data from their shopping carts ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Deceptive Credit Card Practices, Part 2
Credit card veteran Phil Hinke knows a thing or two about payment-processing rates. He has been in the credit card industry sin... 0 Comments | Read More »
Notable Views: Credit Card Veteran on 'Onerous' Processing Rates
Editor's Note: "Notable Views” is a new series where we ask leading experts to address critical, ecommerce-related topics. For ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Credit Card Pioneer on Lowering Processing Expense
Credit card processing can be one of the most confusing parts of ecommerce for many merchants. The rates fluctuate widely and t... 0 Comments | Read More »
Credit-Card Exec on Reducing Processing Costs
There is nothing more confusing to ecommerce merchants than credit card processing. The rates wildly fluctuate and the monthly sta... 1 Comments | Read More »
Miva Merchant President on Hostasaurus Acquisition, SaaS Platform
The evolution of Miva Merchant continues. That pioneering platform, which first launched in the late 1990s, was acquired almost fou... 0 Comments | Read More »
Radical Ideas to Make Credit Card Payments More Secure
Credit cards approvals are not completely secure because the information those approvals rely on — cardholder names, card numbe... 1 Comment | Read More »
10 Ecommerce Checkout Strategies
When we hear the word “conversion” we often think landing pages, category and product page layouts and overall navigation. Let’... 3 Comments | Read More »
Ask An Expert: What Data to Mine from Abandoned Carts?
“Ask an Expert” is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, ... 6 Comments | Read More »
PCI-Council General Manager on Non-Compliance 'Russian Roulette'
Most merchants prefer the idea of the credit card industry policing itself, versus lawmakers getting involved. PCI Security Sta... 3 Comments | Read More »
PCI Council General Manager Bob Russo
Most merchants like the idea of the credit card industry policing itself, versus lawmakers getting involved. PCI Security Standar... 0 Comments | Read More »
Consider the Subscription Model for New Revenue
Selling to a customer once is great. Selling to a customer every year, month, or week is even better. This mantra of sorts — a... 3 Comments | Read More »
Cart Talk: BetterWorldBooks.com Exec on Custom ASP.net Shopping Cart
Merchants have almost 600 online shopping carts to choose from, including hosted carts, licensed carts and open-sourced carts. ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Cart Talk: HipsAndHair.com Owner on the Yahoo! Shopping Cart
With close to 600 ecommerce shopping carts on the market, merchants have a lot to choose from. Each week in “Cart Talk,” we int... 3 Comments | Read More »
Cart Talk: Seventh.Ink Owner on LemonStand Shopping Cart
Merchants have almost 600 online shopping carts to choose from, including hosted carts, licensed carts and open-sourced carts. ... 2 Comments | Read More »
Cart Talk: SuburbanHomeRecords.com CEO on 'Limited Pressing' Shopping Cart
Editor's Note: "Cart Talk" is our new, weekly discussion about shopping carts with the merchants that use them. For this inaugu... 0 Comments | Read More »
Conversion Tip: Persistent Carts Help 'Wish List' Shoppers
Editor's Note: This week's "Conversion Tip" addresses the reality of shoppers that abandon carts, and then return to them later... 3 Comments | Read More »
Interview: Subscription Revenues Can Supplement Ecommerce Sales
The notion of adding additional revenue to an ecommerce business presumably appeals to merchants. And, increasingly, one way to... 3 Comments | Read More »
Shopping Cart FAQ: How to Evaluate SEO Effectiveness
Editor's Note: We are excited to debut "Shopping Cart FAQ," our monthly column aimed at merchants who are evaluating shopping c... 5 Comments | Read More »
The PEC Review: Shopify
There are nearly 600 different shopping cart solutions to choose from. While many of these carts are functional, a relative f... 1 Comment | Read More »
