'Net Features : E-commerce software

WorldPay Integration Extends Intershop's Payment Processing Options

Michael Garrity — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:00:00 GMT

Payment processing solution provider WorldPay and e-commerce solution provider Intershop have joined forces to offer a robust e-commerce platform with more extensive payment processing capabilities, global customer reach and greater risk functionality. In other words, they may have just found the solution that many online merchants have been looking for.

Both WorldPay’s payment gateway and its RiskGuardian risk management service are now going to be integrated into the Intershop 7 e-commerce platform, meaning they’ll be available for all Intershop customers. This integration is supposed to help merchants maximize their transaction success and implement “cross-border strategies” that give their customers access to locally preferred payment methods through WorldPay’s over 200 alternative payment types.

According to the Global Online Shopper Report from WorldPay, 61 percent of online shoppers have “greater confidence” in a website if it offers a choice of payment methods.

“Following WorldPay’s integration with Intershop’s platform, merchants can now benefit from a comprehensive e-commerce solution that delivers unrivalled payment processing, risk and alternative payment capabilities,” said the Chief Commercial Officer of WorldPay’s E-Commerce Division, Shane Happach. “This integration places emphasis on the importance of the availability of preferred payment types to enable merchants to operate e-commerce globally through a single interface.”

In addition to adding a wide array of payment processing options and risk management services to the Intershop platform, this partnership also allows Intershop merchants to optimize their revenue streams by capturing payments from various touch points, such as online, mobile and MOTO channels.

3dcart Unveils New Social Sharing Features

Michael Garrity — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:00:00 GMT

Barely two weeks after 3dcart announced Facebook Connect integration with its e-commerce software, the company has announced an integration with e-commerce social sharing application provider AddShoppers.

3dcart customers can now include AddShoppers social sharing buttons on their retail sites to help foster customer engagement and reduce cart abandonment. The integration also opens 3dcart users to AddShoppers' social analytics platform that tracks when a customer shares a product, how many of their friends/followers click the link and how many of those people end up making a purchase.

Hundreds of retailers are currently using the AddShoppers solution, which was the first to release Facebook Open Graph-enabled “Want” and “Own” buttons. Because of the application’s scalability, it can be utilized by stores of all sizes and it can be set up in a matter of minutes.

BigCommerce Platform Highlights Social, Mobile Shopping

Linc Wonham — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:00:00 GMT

BigCommerce has launched its latest multi-channel e-commerce software platform designed to help small and mid-sized merchants capitalize on current industry trends such as mobile and social commerce. The enterprise features in BigCommerce 6.0 are available in packages starting at $24.95 per month and will allow merchants to sell on Facebook, eBay, mobile devices and via shopping comparison sites such as Shopping.com, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla and more.

The new release includes major features in the following areas:

•    Mobile Commerce: Customizable mobile store templates, an iPad-specific mobile store and a webkit-based design for iPhone, Palm and Android devices.
•    Social Commerce: Merchants can promote and sell their products on Facebook and eBay, make their own sites more social by adding Like buttons and tools that allow shoppers to share comments and product reviews, and list their products numerous popular shopping comparison sites.
•    E-mail Marketing: Merchants can automate their e-mail list development with the new SmartList technology and set up autoresponders and promotions in MailChimp to follow up with customers and share a coupon code after purchase.
•    Analytics: The new “Customers who viewed this product also viewed…” feature gives merchants valuable product search-related data and keeps shoppers on site longer
•    Shipping: Three-click integration with Shipworks
•    Product Photos: Merchants can edit images directly from the BigCommerce control Panel using Picnik.com.

Just today we wrote about the ATG study which indicated that a high percentage of mid-market e-commerce merchants are not satisfied with their current online storefronts. The new platform from BigCommerce is specifically designed to give those merchants the latest in enterprise-level features on a small or mid-sized budget, or to try them free for a 15-day trial.

Smart E-commerce Software From 3DCart and OpenSky

Linc Wonham — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:01:00 GMT

E-commerce shopping cart software provider 3DCart has announced an upgrade that brings online shopping directly into the realm of social and mobile media. For the first time, retailers using 3DCart 3.2 can post their products to Twitter and Facebook with a single click, integrate YouTube videos into their product descriptions and allow consumers to browse and buy from their smartphones.

Additional new features of 3DCart 3.2 include 30 new storefront templates, a new drag-and-drop edit bar, built-in photo editing using Picnik, 3DZoom product close-ups and more. There are over 50 new features in all, and 3DCart 3.2 is available immediately to current and new users.

Another new cart from "relationship-commerce" innovator OpenSky introduces a secure checkout technology that can be distributed to any site, allowing OpenSky sellers to integrate shopping seamlessly throughout their content. The OpenSky platform enables bloggers and experts to sell unique products without worrying about inventory, customer service, shipping or transaction technology.

The new OpenSky cart will function on all websites in the OpenSky community, so that shoppers can use one cart to check out products from any OpenSky seller. OpenSky’s growing catalog hosts more than a thousand manufacturers that rely on the tight integration to drive page-views, engagement and commerce.

Search Merchandising Engine Powers E-Commerce Retailers

Linc Wonham — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:15:00 GMT

OrderDynamics, the leading on-demand e-commerce software provider in Canada, has upgraded its technology to include a search merchandising engine that gives retailers control of how site search results are calculated and merchandised to shoppers. The new platform allows e-commerce professionals to merchandise within search results, reuse previous search terms, append targeted results to natural listing and override zero result searches with dynamic recommendations.

The new search merchandising engine also enables retailers to expose their products to many of the Internet’s most popular shopping marketplaces through automated integration with sites such as Google Base, Shopping.com, ShopZilla, Yahoo!, NexTag, Become.com, BizRate, PriceGrabber.com and Amazon. The new software also provides a comprehensive set of e-commerce metric reports along with innovative tools such as multiple vanity URLs and search engine directive controls that simplify multivariant testing.

New E-commerce Software From AspDotNetStorefront

Linc Wonham — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:05:00 GMT

AspDotNetStorefront has released the next generation of its successful shopping platform that already powers more than 11,000 e-commerce websites. The new ML version 9.0 incorporates updates to the user interface, templating system, integration features and administrative functions that promise to make the software more robust, simpler to use, easier to integrate, and more efficient to develop against.

Notable features include the use of ASP.NET Master Pages to generate application templates and themes, the ability to customize URL rewriting rules to provide tailored SEO results, extensive utilization of AJAX throughout the site to provide faster, more efficient administration and a friendlier shopping experience, and implementation of Microsoft’s add-in system to allow highly portable, self-contained modifications without touching core application code.

AspDotNetStorefront’s updated e-commerce shopping cart also includes mobile browsing functionality that allows merchants to reach nearly two billion mobile devices, as well as advanced integrations with online chat applications, tax providers and new payment gateways. Pricing for ML v9.0 starts at $1,295, and more information can be obtained at http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com.