PCI Compliant Shopping Carts

With the new PCI-DSS deadline of September fast looming, now is a good time to double check which shopping carts are ready and which carts are going to be penalised (and even cut off from some payment processors) Core Commerce – as of December 31 2009 Volusion 3d Cart – as of Feburary 26 2009 1ShoppingCart.com Yahoo! Stores – [...]

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The Cheapest Shopping Cart

Not a day has gone by in the last 6 months when I haven’t been asked which shopping cart is the cheapest. I know money is tight, but cost is the single worst way to select your e-commerce platform. None the less, people can’t get passed it and I was constantly checking pricing pages to [...]

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Web Professionals Guide to Selecting a Shopping Cart

July 2010 Edition As a web developer or designer we are often asked by customers to recommend a shopping cart or e-commerce solution. Let me  run down the main players and give you the heads up on what to expect. Magento is good until you have to hand it over to a customer and they [...]

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Free or Paid Shopping Cart

Why pay for a shopping cart

Should I pay for a e-commerce solution or use a free one ? With so many free shopping carts available why should you pay for one? To put it simply, you get what you pay for and most “free” shopping carts cost more in technical support that a service like CoreCommerce. I think Magento (the [...]

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A little BP irony

BP Oil Spill Irony

Let’s call this a Sunday distraction. It came from someone on Twitter but I can’t remember who – if you know give me a ping so I can credit them properly

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Core Commerce vs Volusion

Volusion vs Core Commerce

Two of the most popular and well respected shopping carts at the moment are Core Commerce and Volusion. Deciding which one to use is often frustrating for most people because of how similar the two products are. I have lifted the hood on both for you. Changing the look of the store I have criticized [...]

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Problems with Big Commerce

Big Commerce Problems

Before you accuse me of jumping ship – I haven’t. I am still a huge fan of Big Commerce, but I am also in the business of giving clients the best solutions possible and every so often, for whatever reason that isn’t Big Commerce or Interspire. This isn’t a random bitching, I work hard with [...]

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Big Commerce PCI-DSS

Big Commerce PCI-DSS

Is Big Commerce PCI-DSS Compliant? At the time of writing (May 2010) Big Commerce is not PCI-DSS compliant, but is well on it’s way, and will be by the time it is required (July 2010). Back in Feburary 2010 big Commerce said they “have finished all of the technical modifications and are finishing up our [...]

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Upgrading Ruby on Media Temple Grid Service

Ruby on Rails

This is a little of topic but I am posting it her for anyone else looking for the answer because I couldn’t find it when i needed it. Back Story: I am developing a little Rails Application and need to update Ruby Gems to deploy the app to Media Temple. No such luck – I [...]

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Integrating Big Commerce and WordPress

Wordpress and Big Commerce

Can I use a real blog with Big Commerce? For all the great things that Big Commerce do – a blog isn’t one of them yet. It has article and news functionality but you really need to bash them around if you want to do any serious blogging – and nearly every social media plan [...]

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