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WordPress’s WooCommerce Acquisition Could Improve Support, Features
June 4, 2015 • Armando Roggio
The announcement that WordPress’s parent company, Automattic, would purchase WooThemes and its widely used WooCommerce plugin could be good news for online sellers using the ecommerce platform. WooCommerce, which by some ...
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8 Questions before You Choose an Ecommerce Platform in 2015
June 2, 2015 • Armando Roggio
Selling online requires an ecommerce platform. Fortunately, for entrepreneurs there are many good ecommerce solutions available. Selecting which one to use can be a matter of choosing the best option ...
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Ecommerce SaaS Platforms Easy to Launch, Sophisticated
November 5, 2014 • Armando Roggio
Software-as-a-service platforms offer a nearly complete foundation for operating an online store, be it a business-to-consumer retailer or a business-to-business seller. It’s never been easier to launch a sophisticated, effective ...
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Miva President on Ecommerce Longevity, Innovation
October 28, 2014 • PEC Staff
Miva is both a pioneering early day shopping cart and a progressive, innovative platform. Its president, Rick Wilson, recently spoke with Practical Ecommerce’s Kerry Murdock to discuss, among other topics,
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Yahoo Launches Updated, Competitive Ecommerce Platform
August 14, 2014 • Armando Roggio
With the aim of helping small businesses get started online, build a thriving company, and grow to be a successful enterprise, Yahoo has relaunched its venerable software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce platform,
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26 Platforms for Blogging
July 21, 2014 • Sig Ueland
Writing a blog can help establish your expertise, inform your customers, and drive traffic to your website. But before you start writing, you’ll have to choose a platform to fit ...
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7 Things that Make WooCommerce Compelling
April 24, 2014 • Armando Roggio
WooCommerce is, arguably, the most popular and important WordPress ecommerce plugin. Its ease of use, features, and flexibility make it a leading ecommerce platform, capable of rivaling even the best ...
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3 Things to Know About WooCommerce
April 23, 2014 • Armando Roggio
WooCommerce is a popular WordPress plugin, designed to transform WordPress into a capable ecommerce platform. The plugin has many superb features and capabilities, but there are also at least three ...
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WooCommerce Leads Ecommerce Platform Pack in April 2014
April 18, 2014 • Armando Roggio
WooCommerce, the popular WordPress ecommerce plugin, had nearly 260,000 active sites indexed with BuiltWith, a web technology profiling tool, as of April 14, 2014, about 37,000 more sites than its ...
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Navigating 2014’s Crowded Ecommerce Platform Market
March 25, 2014 • Armando Roggio
The ecommerce platform market is crowded with effective, feature-rich solutions, making it challenging for new or growing ecommerce businesses to know which solution is best for them. Ecommerce platforms are the ...
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PrestaShop 1.6 Adds Improved Business Intelligence, Other Features
March 13, 2014 • Armando Roggio
PrestaShop 1.6 is scheduled for official release on March 17, 2014. It adds several new features to the popular open source ecommerce platform, including easier access to key performance indicators ...
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New Ecommerce Platform Claims Better Performance, Development
February 18, 2014 • Armando Roggio
A new open source ecommerce platform from a one-time Magento engineer claims it can change online selling for small and mid-sized merchants with a new set of easy-to-use features, mobile-by-default ...
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How to Integrate Cloud-based Platforms
February 13, 2014 • Jerry Jao
Ecommerce businesses increasingly rely on cloud-based applications, such as hosted shopping carts, analytics platforms, cloud-based accounting, customer service tools, and more. To operating smoothly, a merchant’s cloud-based apps should integrate with ...
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Rewards, Risks of Changing Ecommerce Platforms
January 27, 2014 • Dale Traxler
There are many reasons that ecommerce companies change platforms. As their business grows and market conditions change, ecommerce firms sometimes replace components or the entire platform to remain competitive. But replatforming ...
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Distributed Commerce to Disrupt Online Storefronts?
December 11, 2013 • Dale Traxler
The vast majority of ecommerce transactions occur in a traditional online storefront. Most ecommerce solutions include everything required for placing an order in a single shopping cart or platform —
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Hosted Mobile Platforms Quick, Easy to Implement
November 18, 2013 • Dale Traxler
Consumers increasingly conduct product research on smartphones. But actual online purchases are typically done on desktops, laptops, and, now, tablets. There are many reasons for this, but mostly it is that ...
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4 Popular WordPress Ecommerce Platforms
October 16, 2013 • Joe Robison
Most products for sale online are straightforward, with variations mainly in colors and sizes. WordPress ecommerce plugins can be an easy, inexpensive way to sell these items. If you already ...
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Ecommerce Platforms: Design Control vs. Ease of Launching
July 3, 2013 • Armando Roggio
Online shoppers judge an Internet retailer’s trustworthiness and a product’s value based, at least in part, on how good a site or product detail page looks. Given its importance, one might think that design control would be an essential part of every available ecommerce platform. But ma...
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4 Comment Systems: Pros and Cons
June 27, 2013 • Drew Coffin
In “What to Look for in a Comment System,” I described features like comment moderation, analytics, social integration, and dashboard settings. In this post I will review four popular comment systems and discuss the highlights of each.
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Mobile Commerce: Website or App?
January 1, 2013 • Dale Traxler
According to Forrester Research, mobile commerce sales will grow from $10 billion in 2012 to $32 billion in 2016, accounting for more than 7 percent of total ecommerce sales. With the adoption of smartphones and tablets accelerating worldwide, that percentage could be even higher. For...
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10 Free Content Curation Platforms
October 8, 2012 • Kevin Webster
Many businesses are embracing content curation — the process of collecting, commenting on, and linking to the content of others. The premise is find relevant articles, tips and tools that your prospects and customers would find valuable, and then share them on a platform that you brand.
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The Benefits of an Integrated Ecommerce System
August 30, 2012 • Dale Traxler
Editor's Note: This is part one of a three-part series on the benefits of an integrated, all-in-one ecommerce platform. The second installment is "Defining Your Integrated System Requirements." The third is "Choosing an Integrated Ecommerce System; 4 Steps." I am consulting with a com...
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17 Ecommerce Themes for OpenCart
August 20, 2012 • Sig Ueland
OpenCart is an open-source shopping cart system that is feature-rich and user-friendly, with a large variety of payment gateways and shipping method integrations. OpenCart features many high-quality ecommerce themes to ...
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16 Responsive Ecommerce Themes on WordPress
August 6, 2012 • Sig Ueland
Responsive design allows a business to reach computers, tablets and smartphones from a single website. Here is a list of responsive themes on WordPress for ecommerce sites. Many of these themes are designed to be used with specific ecommerce plugins. All are premium themes, though r...
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10 Great Licensed Shopping Carts
December 19, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Licensed ecommerce platforms are often the most flexible and powerful "shopping carts" available to online retailers, but they can demand more in terms of expenses and development time. Licensed shopping carts — or, perhaps more accurately, ecommerce platforms — are hosted on a merchan...
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8 Great SaaS Shopping Carts
December 9, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecommerce solutions allow small online retailers to open functional online stores with a minimum in capital expense. While there are many good SaaS shopping carts on the market in the end of 2011, here are eight carts that are among my personal favor...
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An Overview of Magento Go
November 7, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Magento Go is the software-as-a-service ecommerce platform from Magento, a leading open-source ecommerce solution. Magento Go may be an attractive choice for some online merchants. SaaS or hosted ecommerce platforms generally offer a few advantages for merchants. First, many of the he...
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10 App Marketplaces for Open Source Shopping Carts
October 26, 2011 • Sig Ueland
Many open source shopping carts can be customized with extensions or modules, created by an active developer community. Here is a list of app-extension marketplaces and libraries for open source shopping cart platforms. Most of the platforms are free. The extensions are both free and ...
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The 10 Best Blogging Platforms in 2011
October 5, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Online merchants are competing for customer attention and loyalty in an Internet landscape where people create their autobiographies across social networks and businesses have to discover a reason to be relevant in that narrative. Blogging, which some suggest is a waning art for indivi...
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25 Great Magento Themes
June 15, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Magento is one of the most popular ecommerce platforms with thousands of live shops, including major retailers. The platform, which eBay recently purchased, also has a vibrant developer community that creates easy-to-integrate themes and modules. In this article, you find a list of 25 ...
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