No more Interspire

It’s finally official. BigCommerce won, Interspire is dead. Come July 2012 Interspire will stop updating and supporting it’s flagship Interspire Shopping Cart. Thanks to Dave Beck whose posted earlier tonight on Shopping Cart Strategies about Interspire‘s discontinuation come July 2012. When I wrote my post on the best shopping carts of 2012 I noted that while Interspire [...]

The Next Step to Helping You All

Until the start of this year this website always had a steady stream of visitors that kept me busy answering emails and comments and kept the workload nice and full. The 2012 started and the traffic to the website doubled. At first I thought it was just the usual pre-christmas boom that happens with people [...]

Shopping Cart Bandwidth Charges

I get a lot of email from people concerned by the bandwidth limits and charges of some of the shopping carts. Generally higher bandwidth means more visitors and all things being equal more sales, but that doesn’t stop people worrying. I blame telecom companies for putting this fear into small businesses and generally tell people [...]

Using BigCommerce in Florida

Anyone doing ecommerce in Florida knows how painful it can be setting up Florida State Taxes in a shopping cart. The following tip was sent in by a reader Larry Miranda yesterday that makes setting up Florida state taxes a 5 minute job in BigCommerce, and I am sure you could easily use the tricks [...]

Ashop Commerce First Look Review

Lately I have noticed a growing number of comments complaining about BigCommerce‘s less than impressive support. It’s not a problem I have had but none the less I thought I would start 2012 by looking at alternatives to BigCommerce. Ashop Commerce has been around for about a decade, has Australian roots and is priced competitively [...]

Free Ashop Commerce Themes

This post is part of an upcoming review series of Ashop Commerce. It is a gallery of the freely available Ashop templates you get access to just by signing up. I know several designer’s that will not be very impressed with the high quality of these themes – check back in a day or so [...]

Pinnacle Cart Coupon Code

Pinnacle Cart is a great piece of shopping cart software, ideal for first time users and power users looking for high end marketing and re-marketing tools. From now until the end of March 2012 you can use the code PCNOSETUP to sign up for Pinnacle Cart without the $49 setup fee. New features in Pinnacle [...]

Free Pinnacle Cart Themes

So thinking of using Pinnacle Cart and want to know what your site might look like? Here are the freely available themes that you can use, or you can contact me or any of the designers listed on this site for a free quote to build you a custom ecommerce theme.

LemonStand Now

Not much in ecommerce takes me by surprise anymore but the announcement of LemonStand Now sure did. I have long been a fan of LemonStand and think they have a great product considering how young it is, so I am excited to see how they transform that into a SaaS Shopping Cart. I expect there [...]

Free Americommerce Templates

A list of the freely available Americommerce templates. If you would like to know more about Americommerce read my Americommerce Review