Once an order is complete in ShopSite ®, every merchant has to process that order, print labels, ship it, track inventory, and order new items to replenish their stock levels. Since the ShopSite software does not provide these features, it requires either manual work, or a third party application to complete these tasks.

Fortunately, there’s a great web based service available that seamlessly integrates with your ShopSite store.

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PayPal is an important payment method for any ecommerce store. The more options you can give your customers to pay with, the better. And PayPal is easy to enable for any ecommerce store.

However, PayPal has a few settings that may not be obvious, and can cause issues for a merchant…

How long should a cart be saved before it’s deleted? It’s a complicated question that encompasses a number of factors…

Selling online is getting harder these days. As more and more big-box retailers shift their focus to ecommerce, remaining competitive takes more than low prices and a website. This is especially true if your products are not unique.

One easy way to break out from the pack is with a blog.

Man did it snow in January here in Connecticut! Over 71 inches of snow this winter, with more falling as I write this.

I thought I’d take a break from all this shoveling and list a few gems I found in January…

We sometimes hear that ShopSite ® can take a long time to complete a full publish of web pages for large ecommerce stores. By large I mean stores that have 50,000 or 100,000+ products in ShopSite. By a long time, it’s usually one hour or more.

In fact, we recently received an email from a ShopSite store owner hosted somewhere else that said a publish was taking over 2 hours to finish! The store has around 100,000 products.

None of this gels with what we’ve seen…

Last week Practical Ecommerce had an article showing the Top Ten Online Spending Days of 2010 Holiday Season. The data, collected by comScore, displays the 10 biggest sales days of 2010. I thought it would be interesting to see how smaller ecommerce merchants did during this same period of time.

It’s only a few days into the new year, and the US Postal Service (USPS) has managed to cause some major issues for many ecommerce merchants. What looked like a simple, straightforward update on January 2nd turned into a big mess for shopping carts that relied on real-time rates from USPS.

The blizzard of 2010 hit Connecticut quite hard the day after Christmas. Not too much snow, but 60+ mph wind gusts made for quite the white Christmas.

If you’re stuck in the house due to the weather, check out our picks for ecommerce articles and posts around the web for December.