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: Auctiva Commerce
October 2, 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
The PeC Review: BadCustomer.com Makes Good Business
October 1, 2009 • Armando Roggio
A free service protects merchants from bad customers—both malicious and foolish—saving time, frustration, and money. Ecommerce merchants love customers and love providing good customer service. It is at the industry's heart. But some customers are not so loveable and knowing who they ar...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: CartGenie
September 25, 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: Shop Maker
September 18, 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: NitroSell
September 11, 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
The PeC Review: PowerReviews
September 3, 2009 • Armando Roggio
The term "Web 2.0" has come to describe web design and architecture that facilitates user interaction. And on ecommerce sites, that interaction often takes the form of customer-generated product or service reviews. PowerReviews and PowerReviews Express offer online retailers—from multi...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: GoEmerchant
August 28, 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: Beanbasket
August 21, 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
Twenty Design Examples of Magento Commerce-based Stores
August 14, 2009 • Armando Roggio
Magento Commerce is perhaps the most popular open-source ecommerce platform available today because of its rich feature set, excellent backend, and extremely flexible theme structure. Magento's theme structure is of particular interest to ecommerce web designers because it allows for a...
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Platforms & Apps
Cart of the Week: Fortune3
August 14, 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: CS-Cart
August 7, 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
The PeC Review: Silkfair Is An Easy and Flexible eCommerce Platform
August 5, 2009 • Armando Roggio
The Silkfair marketplace and ecommerce platform gives small ecommerce entrepreneurs an easy to use and flexible solution. It could have some online merchants selling in less than an hour without a single dime in out of pocket costs. Silkfair's market shops, which are somewhat analogo...
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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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