Tweet Four great articles worth a read for any ecommerce merchant… Recipe for Responsive Ecommerce Product Pages in 2014 – Practical Ecommerce Some good tips about creating a great responsive website Deconstructing E-Commerce Search: The 12 Query Types – Baymard Institute How customers actually search a website The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve […]

Tweet Magento is a popular, powerful ecommerce solution. It’s also quite slow out of the box. How slow? The metaphor “as slow as a snail” comes to mind. (and that’s being kind…) However, with a few changes and some know-how, Magento can be as fast as any other ecommerce application, and likely faster than most. […]

Tweet As many of you know, the latest version of ShopSite (v12) now supports Google’s Universal Analytics tracking code. Universal Analytics includes many improved features over its predecessor, including: Tracking of user sessions across multiple devices Compatibility with more devices More control over configuration options Custom dimensions and metrics for more advanced reporting A complete […]

Tweet Quantity Pricing is a simple but powerful feature in ShopSite Pro which allows you to provide discounts for large orders, and even discount pricing across multiple products in the same product group. In this post we’ll cover some tips for configuring as well as common mistakes which can occur.   The Settings Quantity Pricing […]

Tweet Google recently launched Shopping Campaigns, a new type of Adwords campaign, which is set to replace Product Listing Ad campaigns (PLA’s).  New Merchant Center feeds are required to use the new Shopping Campaign type.  According to Google, legacy feeds will be migrated to the new campaign type later this Summer (August 2014 ETA). The […]

Tweet Your store is online, you’re taking orders, but is shipping them taking too long?  We have a time-saver for you: LexiConn has recently released a module to integrate your ShopSite store with ShipStation, a hosted order management system which can print all your shipping labels and even notify your customers of their tracking numbers. […]

Tweet If your store is currently configured to send order notifications with the customer as the ‘From’ address (default setting), you may soon stop receiving these notifications.  This will apply to any merchant currently forwarding order notifications to GMail, Yahoo and other 3rd party mail servers. This is true even if your store email address […]

Tweet There are two broad types of ecommerce solutions: 1. Software that is installed in a hosting account (like ShopSite or Magento) -or- 2. Software as a service [SaaS] (no installation or ownership of files like Volusion, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc…) (Remotely hosted shopping cart) Although the idea of not having to install or maintain any […]

Tweet JavaScript can be used for a variety of features on the Shopping Cart page in ShopSite, such as this tip for showing the amount left to purchase to receive free shipping, and today we’re going to look at a very simple piece of code which will pop-up an alert to the customer with a […]

Tweet In this post, we are using the ShopSite Product Review module to display a single page containing reviews/testimonials for selected products (or all products depending on catalog size and number of available reviews). Merchandising > Custom Templates > Pages/Products 1.  Create a new Product template containing only a [– DEFINE PRODUCT –] section (You […]