I’ve been following Magento since the early alphas. Today, Magento released Community Edition 1.8 with improvements to security, tax calculations and overall functionality. Below is a breakdown of the key improvements in this release. Enhanced Tax Calculations Magento Community Edition 1.8 improves tax calculation accuracy for VAT merchants and eliminates potential rounding errors that can […]
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eCommerce Goes Personal [Infographic]
Today’s infographic comes from BrainSINS. According to several reports, personalization is one of the key components which can help boost sales and improve the customer experience on eCommerce websites. Via GetElastic
PrestaShop Released v1.5.5 With Speed Improvements, Shipping Wizard & More
PrestaShop, an open source eCommerce platform, has released an update to their shopping cart. This upgrade focuses on speed and stability as well as implementation of a new shipping wizard. Breakthrough Speed and Stability We spent countless days and nights working internally, along with our community, diving deep into PrestaShop’s code to tremendously optimize the […]
Shopify Launches A POS System To Integrate Physical Storefronts With The Web
Shopify has been releasing a lot of new features recently. It looks as if their goal is to be the complete backbone of your business. A few weeks ago they replaced your merchant account with a Shopify powered credit card processing system. This time they are launching a full fledged Point-of-Sale System which is completely […]
Reader Poll: eCommerce or E-Commerce?
This question is as old as eCommerce itself. How do you spell eCommerce? Is it eCommerce (110,000,000 Google results) or E-Commerce (162,000,000 Google results)? I like eCommerce better… Is it eCommerce or E-Commerce?
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What Is E-Commerce? [Infographic]
Here is a cool infographic on the state of eCommerce from Miva Merchant. Source: Miva Merchant
10+ FREE Magento Extensions For Magento Community Edition 1.7
[paragraph_text class=”lead”]Magento has a ton of features. Is it missing the one feature that you need? Here is a list of 10+ FREE extensions for Magento CE version 1.7.[/paragraph_text] #1 – Catalog Search Refinement The default Magento search technology will look for items containing ANY of the search terms used. This extension will allow you […]
Shopify Launches Shopify Payments To Replace Your Merchant Account
Shopify just launched a merchant processing program which is fully integrated into their popular shopping cart system. Merchants can sign up directly with Shopify and get rates as low as 2.25% + $0.30 per transaction. Read the full email from Shopify below for more details. Shopify Payments Launched for US Customers This week, we are […]
3dCart New Features: Bitcoins, Dwolla, Gift Wrapping, PO System & More
3dCart just released v6 of their hosted shopping cart platform. They are increasingly becoming an all-in-one platform for small businesses with retail websites. Some of the major new features inside 3dcart v6.0 are described below: Accept Bitcoins Payments via Dwolla Canada Post Shipping Labels Homepage Slider Gift Wrapping SEO Tools Purchase Order System Product Q&A […]