Rich snippets on e-commerce sites are fast becoming the next must have item – like last years Facebook like button – and if you don’t have them expect your competitors will. The usefulness of them is debatable at the moment but we do know two things for certain. They will not hurt your website and enough of [...]
Core Commerce Customer Credit Cards at risk
The latest from Core Commerce regarding the illegal access to customer credit card details. We regretfully confirm that Sum Effect Software, Inc., which provides the software-as-a-service product CoreCommerce, was the victim of a recent illegal and unauthorized intrusion of the company’s network. Specifically, files containing credit card numbers stored on Sum Effect Software servers (at [...]
Upgrades complete
OK, all moved over to media temple now, there might eb a few glitches but hopefully I sort them out before you see them. Hopefully the site is faster and more reliable – not that I ever had any issues with Hostgator but the site is getting that busy these days I figured I had [...]
Upgrades afoot
Just a quick heads up that this weekend I will be re-arranging the blog and website and upgrading the server. I will try and minimize the downtime and keep everything up as long as possible but sometimes gremlins get loose. Have a great weekend and if you need me while the blog is getting upgraded [...]
3dCart Review
I have been looking into 3d Cart for a while now and slowly poking around in it to get a feel for it. It is a very clean and polished interface and some nice design work so I had high hopes for it. Overall it is not a bad cart, the pricing is good and the basic feature [...]
CoreCommerce vs BigCommerce
For more in this series of see Big Commerce vs Shopify or CoreCommerce vs BigCommerce It has taken the best part of 8 months to get this comparison together. BigCommerce and CoreCommerce have both grown in features so quickly and prolifically in the last 12 months, that every time I wrote this comparison I was needing to edit it [...]
BigCommerce Is Now PCI Compliant
The second* longest wait in shopping cart history is over. BigCommerce is finally PCI Compliant. Not much else to say except hopefully this frees up the support team to work through some of the most pressing issues, and hopefully allows people to look into BigCommerce as a serious option (I know several of you excluded it form [...]
Is BigCommerce PCI Compliant
At long last BigCommerce is PCI Compliant. 3 days ago BigCommerce came the closest they have ever come to announcing they are finally PCI Compliant by posting a preview of a soon to be released website update. It all sounds positive (if not 12 months too late) and as soon as we get the official [...]
BigCommerce Upgrade (6.1.3)
Just a heads up post that BigCommerce is ready to rumble on a new upgrade. There is little to get excited about, it is primarily bug fixes so we shouldn’t see the usual carnage and mayhem (bummer really I get a few weeks of solid work usually). There are several eBay and ShipWorks fixes so those of [...]
