'Net Features : ecommerce software

Dydacomp Releases PCI-compliant Cart for SMBs

Linc Wonham — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Dydacomp, an e-commerce technology provider for small and mid-sized businesses and multichannel merchants, has released a new shopping cart.

SiteLINK 7 is a PCI DSS-certified solution and hosting platform that makes it easier for customers to leave product reviews, incorporates a persistent cart and presents a recently viewed-items listing.

“One of the business-critical areas that we addressed in SiteLINK 7 is PCI compliance,” says Fred Lizza, CEO of Dydacomp. “The ramifications of a data breach to a small or medium-sized business can be devastating. By combining SiteLINK 7 with our Multichannel Order Manager, we provide the only integrated end-to-end PCI-compliant software solution for small and mid-size merchants and their customers.”

The integration with Multichannel Order Manager provides SMBs with the ability to manage all commerce processes needed to run and scale a successful online or cross-channel business through a single solution. SiteLINK 7 also includes the ability to sell e-gift cards that can be redeemed through point-of-purchase, new HTML templates and integration with buySAFE to provide shoppers with a purchase guarantee.

“Our latest solution also addresses the rapid adoption of new mobile technology,” says Lizza. “SiteLINK 7 now includes mobile-optimized layouts to allow our merchants’ customers to browse and order from smartphones and wireless devices.”

Digital River Releases My Commerce

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMT

E-commerce solution provider Digital River has introduced a solution for small-to-medium sized business software, digital content publishing and physical goods market dubbed My Commerce.

The offering is essentially a collection of e-commerce products from RegNow, shareit!, SWREG, eSellerate, Reg.net and CCNow. Features include users interfaces that include full site and cart merchandising tools, and shopping cart and order page customization capailigies, APIs to manage products and catalogs, and localization tools displays sites in any language.

“Digital River is committed to providing global e-commerce solutions for the SMB space at prices that are both highly competitive and compelling,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “The upgrades and enhancements we continue to make to the My Commerce solutions reinforce our ongoing efforts to offer SMBs the flexible tools they need to scale their e-businesses on a global basis, increase their efficiencies and grow their online businesses. With price points as low as zero percent, we are leading the way in helping to break down the barriers to entry so companies of all sizes can be selling online in just minutes or hours rather than days.”

Digital River My Commerce is part of Digital River’s portfolio of global e-commerce solutions, which also includes Digital River® Global Commerce™ and Digital River® Commerce Express™.

Magento Enterprise Edition Available

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:19:00 GMT

Open source e-commerce platform Magento released an enterprise edition of their solution last week. Consider it a premium grade Magento product geared towards larger companies.

This edition has additional features, including ROI-specific features not available in the open source product. Magento enterprise will also include SLA (service level agreement) based support with guaranteed response times, warranties and indemnification and soon, PA-DSS certification (PCI Data Security Standard). Let's see your open source software do that.

Magento has created a handy product comparison page to help merchants determine which is right for their e-commerce enterprise.

Ubikwiti On-Demand Accounting for Online Retailers ($4.99/mo)

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:10:00 GMT

Ubikwiti has announced an accounting solution for online retailers. These and other cloud-based, on-demand accounting and financial management applications are excellent ways for online retailers to cost-effectively manage their businesses.

According to Ubikwiti CEO Tim Loving, "IDC's Top Ten Predictions for 2009 predict the move to cloud computing will accelerate in 2009, driven by the bad economy and shoppers seeking lower costs. IDC believes the global economic recession will push 1.5 billion people (almost a quarter of the planet) into online shopping, driving over $8 trillion in online sales."

Throughout the day I'll build out a list of similar providers that readers of this blog might be interested in. If you use a provider now or know of one you think others might be interested in, just comment below to share. The Ubikwiti solution allows merchants to perform many general/standard accounting tasks with ease;

record aggregate online sales by sales category,
review gross receipts, net receipts, commission and other charges paid,
analyze gross sales, discounts, net sales and tax collected,
record vendor bills and payments made to vendors,
record deposits of checks and cash into your bank accounts,
transfer funds between bank accounts,
reconcile bank account statements with book records,
prepare and view full financial reports and other standard reports in PDF format,
set a base time zone for operations to ensure consistency of records and reports across multiple time zones

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Online Sales Tax Update; Bad News For Internet Retailers?

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:10:00 GMT

Back in April of 2008, the state of New York enacted a new tax law which required out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales tax if they have a commission agreement with an in-state resident (that means affiliates) if earnings totaled more than $10,000 in revenue annually.

Is this a major setback for the tax free Internet retail? Perhaps, but not yet. The bad news came yesterday as a New York judge dismissed the case and claims of both Amazon and Overstock who filed lawsuits to stop the Internet sales tax collection. Count on both Amazon and Overstock, however, to appeal the rulings.

According to Judge Eileen Bransten, "In the end, the Commission-Agreement Provision does not broadly tax any and all Internet sales to New York consumers. It requires a substantial nexus between an out-of-state seller and New York through a contract to pay commissions for referrals with a New York resident along with realization of more than $10,000 of revenue from New York sales earned through the arrangement. The neutral statute simply obligates out-of-state sellers to shoulder their fair share of the tax collection burden when using New Yorkers to earn profit from other New Yorkers."

Should Amazon and Overstock ultimately lose their appeals, it is possible that you may see the end of affiliate advertising programs in their current iteration from retailers like Amazon and Overstock.

Free Shipping an E-Commerce Must-Have

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:58:00 GMT

Free shipping is a valuable acquisition and retention tool for first-time visitors. But what impact does it have on already-loyal customers decision to purchase or recommend a website? A report published today from ForeSee results indicates that high shipping costs drive people to shop in stores versus free shipping that drives people to shop online.

Key findings highlighted in the Free Shipping report include:

Free shipping is becoming commonplace and highly satisfies shoppers when available. Of holiday shoppers, 68% recall seeing an offer for free shipping this year.
Free shipping can be an effective acquisition tool. Free shipping results in positive bottom line impact for the e-retailer, surprisingly even when restrictions are put on free shipping, such as $100 minimum orders.
Shipping costs affect whether people choose to buy online or offline. Of all shoppers, 18% said avoiding shipping costs is the main reason they choose to buy in a store, and 33% said free shipping encouraged online buying.
Free shipping helps online retailers beat out their competitors. Sixty percent said free shipping influenced which retailer to choose when purchasing.

CardinalCommerce, OrderDynamics Reach Alternative Payment Arrangement

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:40:00 GMT

Canadian E-commerce service provider OrderDynamics has announced a partnership with CardinalCommerce.

OrderDynamics customers will be able to leverage the CardinalCommerce univeral merchant platform to enable multiple payment brands on their websites. Through a single integration, more than 15 branded payment methods can be deployed on front-end web stores. Verified by Visa & MasterCard SecureCode, Amazon Payments, Bill Me Later, Ebates, eBillme, eLayaway, Google Checkout, Green Dot MoneyPak, MyEcheck, PayPal, RevolutionCard, Mazooma, and ClickandBuy are available.

"Our customers can access these services though their management dashboard and automatically integrate the payment services with their current eCommerce shopping cart solution," explains Steven Berkovitz, VP development at OrderDynamics. "Providing alternative payment methods to shoppers is an important way for online merchants to gain new customers, increase sales conversions, and make the e-commerce shopping experience more secure and convenient."

Cyber Monday Killed Black Friday

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:44:00 GMT

Comscore is reporting that while e-commerce spending for the first 30 days of November saw a 2 percent decline versus the corresponding days last year, CyberMonday saw $846 million in online spending, up a whopping 15 percent. The mcomScore holiday retail survey, conducted from November 28 - December 1, revealed several interesting insights into consumers' views of the 2008 holiday shopping season, including:

-- More than half (51 percent) of consumers indicated that the level of promotions and discounts is higher this year than last year, while only 12 percent said that there appeared to be fewer, suggesting that retailers are having to be more aggressive in discounting to spur consumer spending.

"Mark Twain might have said: 'Rumors of the death of online holiday shopping have been greatly exaggerated,'" said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni. "Consumers are clearly responding positively to retailers' aggressive online discounts. With Cyber Monday promotions beginning in earnest over the Thanksgiving weekend, consumers have finally begun to open their wallets, setting off a streak of four consecutive days of extremely strong growth, and culminating in a Cyber Monday that racked up an impressive $846 million in online spending, up 15 percent over last year and ranking it as the second heaviest online spending day on record. This is an extremely encouraging development for retailers and we can but hope that their aggressive discounting has still left room for profits."

WM Morning Wire: 10-15-08

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:57:00 GMT

Welcome to October 15th, 2008! Tonight's the last presidential debate so head on over to GlassBooth.org and see how your political views compare to the candiates. AND, today is also Blog Action Day, so if you've got the inclination - do the world a favor and blog about Poverty.

Below are a few press release that caught our attention this morning that you too might find interesting. We'll be covering some of these releases throughout the day, but if you have a news announcement you would like to share with the Website Magazine community, please contact Website Magazine editors now.

SearchAdNetwork Wins DMA ECHO Award
Last night, SearchAdNetwork was presented with a 2008 DMA ECHO Award for Excellence in Search Marketing. This marks the second year in a row that SearchAdNetwork has received this honor, making the search engine marketing agency the only recipient thus far.

comScore Ranks Gigya as Largest Widget Company
Gigya Grows 43% in Five Months; More Than 174 Million Unique Widget Viewers Worldwide; Also Releases Internal Data Showing Average Reach of 25 Unique Users per Installed Widget

U.S. Publishing Giants Join Nokia Media Network
Nokia today announced that several leading U.S. publishers (Fox News, A&E Networks, History, and the Hollywood Reporter) have joined the Nokia Media Network, a premium advertising network that provides brands reach to millions of mobile consumers through advertising on blue-chip mobile publishers, operator partners and Nokia services, furthering Nokia's reputation of providing wide audience reach on high-quality publisher mobile sites.

.tel - a Developers' Paradise
Telnic Limited today launched resources and open source code for developers, enabling them to create new
applications and services on the innovative .tel platform launching in December this year.

eCommerce Platforms that Won't Break the Bank
B2C Partners (www.b2cpartners.com), a firm that helps online retailers with technology evaluation and vendor selection, today released a new list of eCommerce platforms that won't break the bank. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) looking for a new eCommerce technology, the list of more than 50 providers is based on B2C Partners' extensive industry experience helping retailers with technology evaluation and selection.

DotCom Your Event Books Fusepoint for PCI Compliant Hosting Solution
Fusepoint Managed Services, a leading provider of outsourced IT services and infrastructure, today announced it has been selected by DotCom Your Event Inc. to manage and host the company's customizable online event registration solutions across North America.

Paid Search: New Study Reveals Industry Growing Pains
Even as the global economy falters, spending on paid search advertising remains on a growth trajectory, expected to reach more than $26.8 billion by 2009. New data shows the largest search marketers would spend even more if they could, according to a recent study by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, commissioned by Marin Software.

iPhone App Offers Social Geo-Location Through Ties with Facebook
Latest iPhone application released by AC ideas brings a geographical locator to your Facebook Friends List. MarcoPolo combines features of the iPhone with Google Maps and Facebook to help you locate your friends on your iPhone.

PESA Teams up with PhiConnect.com for Free eBay Management Tools for PowerSellers
PhiConnect.com is a new online service for eBay ManagementTools designed for Powersellers exclusively and PhiMart.com is a new online auction site with no listing fees

Ecommerce: Magento Should Celebrate

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:32:00 GMT

Open source Ecommerce platform Magento is celebrating its first complete year with a birthday cake (of course) and an announcement that its 32,000 members (and 425,000 downloads) render the offering a competitive communal force in transaction-based ecommece systems.

Magento might be a little bare out of the box, but the activity in the community (often rare in the open source market) - represented by 165 extension available through Magento Connect - should give you the confidence that Magento is here to stay.

Ecommerce: CRE Loaded 6.3

Administrator — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:12:00 GMT

Ecommerce technology and service provider Chain Reaction Ecommerce announced a new version of its popular shopping cart software, CRE Loaded.

"Version 6.3 is a milestone release for CRE," said Michael Valverde, CEO of Chain Reaction Ecommerce. "This release features the most significant round of updates and enhancements - driven by ongoing feedback from our large install base and open source community. We believe customers will be very excited about the new features and expanded capabilities found in CRE Loaded 6.3."

The most notable improvement is the "Abandoned Cart Recovery" feature. This module finds abandoned CRE Loaded shopping carts and creates a list of items and the customers who were shopping for them. Merchants can generate automatic emails to those that abandoned the site, asking them for feedback about why they didn't complete the process, or offering them an incentive to complete the purchase and reminding them of the item(s) they didn't purchase. Abandoned Cart Recovery includes a reporting feature to report on data, such as number of abandoned carts converted into sales.

Other features and enhancements in CRE Loaded 6.3 include:

Content Director: Adds a content management system to CRE Loaded 6.3, enabling store owners to add and manage content.
SEO URL 4.1: Optimizes URL names by including category and product keywords for improved indexing by all major search engines.
One-Page Checkout: Combines all checkout elements into a single-page to reduce shopping cart abandonment rates.