Blog Category: eCommerce

I recently was asked by a client to help fix some issues she was having with her osCommerce shopping cart. The first two shopping carts I did were osCommerce and ZenCart (an osCommerce derivative), and although I now work exclusively with ECommerce Templates, I agreed to help try and fix her store. She had already been through 5 other website designers! Since I enjoy being a hero, I agreed to help. But it wasn’t easy, and I wanted to document what I discovered so that other people who are shopping for an online store and thinking about osCommerce vs ECommerce Templates would learn from my experience.

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If you own an online store or shopping cart and you transmit personal information from your customers, you need to encrypt that information using an SSL certificate. But there are so many choices that vary wildly in cost, how does an online store owner know which one to choose?

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Follow these steps to set up PayPal Website Payments Standard to work with ECommerceTemplates (ECT) Online Store:

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I prefer to use eCommerceTemplates (ECT) to develop online stores for my ecommerce clients. One of the biggest reasons is the flexibility that ECT offers, in terms of pre-build templates as well as generic versions that you can easily integrated into existing websites.

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Since I don’t believe in reinventing the wheel, I often look for website applications that already exist to integrate into a client’s website, and shopping carts are no exception. There are so many different website online shopping cart solutions out there, how does a client select the best one for his or her small business?

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When a website client wants to design an online store or shopping cart on their website, they have several decisions to make. One of the decisions that must be made early on, is which payment processor they will use to handle their website transactions. In this article, I’ll talk about my experience with two of the major website payment processors: PayPal and Authorize.net, and why a website client might select one over the other for their website eCommerce solution. Click here to find out how to add ecommerce to your website.

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PayPal Merchant Rates: It’s Up To You!

Perhaps we were simply too trusting. Perhaps we just didn’t read the fine print. But when we opened a PayPal merchant account and saw that the rates varied with the volume of sales, we figured that PayPal would automatically decrease our merchant rate as our sales increased. After all, PayPal knows what our monthly sales volume is, right?

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