Platforms & Apps
Our coverage of platforms and apps includes innovations and updates to shopping carts, content management systems, mobile shopping, digital-product selling, headless commerce, social media, and much more.
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Modular Merchant
July 31, 2009 • Kate Monteith
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who build it and use it. Thi...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: KonaKart
July 24, 2009 • Kate Monteith
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who built it and use it. Thi...
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Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Know-How: Should You Host Your Own Website?
July 22, 2009 • Armando Roggio
For some ecommerce businesses, operating an in-house HTTP server and the associated server software can improve website performance, increase data security, and lower overall costs. But hosting your site yourself is not for everyone. Ecommerce businesses rely on the Internet. It is the...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Squirrelcart
July 17, 2009 • Kate Monteith
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer or management and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who build it an...
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Platforms & Apps
Google Operating System May Speed Mobile Ecommerce
July 13, 2009 • Armando Roggio
Google recently announced that it had begun work on a computer operating system that might accelerate interest in the popular mobile Internet device market. Mobile Internet devices (MIDs), which are sometimes called netbooks, are physically small and application-lite laptop computers d...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Vendio
July 10, 2009 • Kate Monteith
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer or management and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who build it an...
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Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Know-How: Mobile Commerce in Four Steps
July 7, 2009 • Armando Roggio
Internet-enabled mobile handsets, mobile Internet devices, and new wireless broadband standards are all making it easier for consumers to shop online while on the move. So, is your store ready to serve these mobile customers? In the evolution of modern shopping, consumers have very rec...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Tiger Commerce
July 3, 2009 • Kate Monteith
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer or management and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart from the people who build it an...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Tradingeye
June 26, 2009 • Kate Monteith
At Practical eCommerce, we are aware of more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer or management and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart f...
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Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Know-How: Picking the Right Shopping Cart
June 22, 2009 • Armando Roggio
An online retailer is an online marketer. Often the difference between a successful online business and a failed one is not the product or products available for sale, but how the product is promoted. As an example, consider the case of Marcel Salathé, a Swiss artist and theoretical bi...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Flying Cart
June 19, 2009 • Kate Monteith
At Practical eCommerce, we are aware of more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer or management and a customer. "Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping cart f...
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Platforms & Apps
The PeC Review: KompoZer is a Capable, Free Web Authoring System
June 16, 2009 • Armando Roggio
KompoZer is a complete, open-source, and free web authoring system that combines web file management, coding hints, and a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) page editor that is easy for non-technical site owners or designers to grasp. The KompoZer editor has an interesting history...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Shopster
June 12, 2009 • PEC Staff
At Practical eCommerce, we are aware of more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week, we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer or management and a customer. "The Cart of the Week" is not a review or an evaluation, but rather an opportunity to learn about a shopping c...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Merchant Metrix
June 5, 2009 • PEC Staff
There are over 350 online shopping carts by Practical eCommerce's count. We feature one of them each week, by interviewing both the cart's developer and a customer of the cart. This feature is not a review or an evaluation. This week we profile Oklahoma-based Merchant Metrix. The compa...
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Design & Development
The PeC Review: Magento User Guide eBook
June 2, 2009 • Armando Roggio
Magento Commerce is becoming one of the most popular and, perhaps, most exciting ecommerce platforms available. But with all of its online retailing prowess comes some level of complexity that at least a few merchants find daunting. A new ebook seeks to make using this powerful ecommerc...
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Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Know-How: Cloud Computing in the Ecommerce Forecast
June 1, 2009 • Armando Roggio
If meteorologists predicted ecommerce and computing trends, the forecast would be at least partly cloudy as more computational and transactional applications join the cloud computing front. But are the wispy clouds on the near horizon the harbinger of a gentle, growth-encouraging rain o...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Shop-Script, by WebAsyst
May 15, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this weekly “Cart of the Week” feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile Shop-Script by WebAsyst, based in Delaware. WebAsyst offers...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: eCommerce Framework, by Mediachase
May 8, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this weekly “Cart of the Week” feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile the ASP.NET eCommerce Framework (ECF) by Mediachase. The Lo...
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Platforms & Apps
Interview: Miva Merchant CEO, EVP on Moving to a SAAS Business Model
May 1, 2009 • PEC Staff
Miva Merchant is among the most prominent ecommerce brands. The company was launched in 1995 as HTMLScript Corporation, and it’s one of the early day shopping cart providers. It rose, and then fell, with the first dotcom boom and bust. In 2005, the company sold to Findwhat.com, a publi...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: RomanCart
April 30, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this weekly "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile RomanCart, a U.K.-based hosted cart solution, offering cart...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: ProductCart
April 24, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile ProductCart, by Early Impact, Inc. Based in Mission Viejo,...
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Platforms & Apps
The PeC Review: “Remember the Milk” A Helpful Organizing Tool
April 20, 2009 • Armando Roggio
Ecommerce entrepreneurs are busy people who manage suppliers, web marketing, merchandising, accounting, and more. Many of these entrepreneurs keep lists on legal pads or stick dozens of yellow Post-it notes to the sides of their monitors like a mane on a lion. Australia-based Remem...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Shop2Cart
April 17, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile Shop2Cart, a Boca Raton, Florida-based hosted cart. We ask...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: GoECart
April 10, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile GoECart, a hosted solution with two tiers of pricing, one ...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: AspDotNetStorefront
April 3, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile AspDotNetStorefront’s ML shopping cart. We asked COO and E...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: 3dCart
March 27, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile 3dCart, a Margate, FL-based hosted cart, with prices rangi...
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Platforms & Apps
Calling All Carts for the Shopping Cart Roundup
March 25, 2009 • PEC Staff
Choosing the right online shopping cart is one of the most important decisions an ecommerce merchant will make. And carts are possibly the hottest topic we regularly explore here at Practical eCommerce. This has prompted us to develop a comprehensive guide of every known shopping cart o...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: EC Express by Mercantec
March 20, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile EC Express by Mercantec, a Naperville, IL company that fir...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Cartweaver
March 13, 2009 • Brendan Gibbons
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing "Cart of the Week" feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile Cartweaver, a licensed cart system based in Washington sta...
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Platforms & Apps
Web Design Tips: Compatibility with Older Browsers
March 9, 2009 • Armando Roggio
As web technology advances and development standards evolve some web browsers are falling behind. Many lack the ability to support new technologies and file types or even provide the best available user experience. These lagging browsers put ecommerce businesses in something of a quanda...
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