Tweet On December 15th, the PCI Council updated its date for when TLS 1.0 (an older security protocol used on SSL secure web pages) would be considered obsolete and a PCI violation. Originally, they listed June 30, 2016 as the End of Life (EOL) date for TLS 1.0. They have now extended that deadline to […]

Tweet Previously we went over creating your own reports from the data that ShopSite collects via orders. Another source of information is registered customers. A question that comes up for both of these is how to deal with the date information provided by ShopSite. Unfortunately Excel does not understand this date format so we’ll have […]

Tweet Black Friday and Cyber Monday are behind us, so what does that mean?  It’s time for all the Ecommerce Sales Stats posts and there are a pile of them out this year!  Before we get into reviewing our stats for small merchants,  we’ll highlight some sources and the large merchant stats being reported: Big […]

Tweet We recently had one of our hosted Magento clients appear on The Today Show in the “Jill’s Steals and Deals” segment. This promotion results in thousands of orders in a short period of time, with tens of thousands of visitors. Needless to say, it’s a big deal for a small merchant. Although there are […]

Tweet Since the release of ShopSite version 12 SP2 the most surprising update for many customers has been been the new List of Products screen.  A variety of new options have been added and prior features have changed a bit but are all still there.  In this blog post we’ll highlight those changes. The New […]

Tweet ShopSite has released their Version 12 Service Pack 2 (SP2) upgrade, and as always it includes a variety of new features and bug fixes which makes this a valuable upgrade for all ShopSite merchants. A full list of new features can be found on the ShopSite website here: http://www.shopsite.com/help/12.2/en-US/new-features.html ..and here are some highlights! […]

Tweet In the past few days, there has been a lot of talk and activity around a large number of Magento stores (greater than 7,000) being infected by malicious code that is causing Google to blacklist the sites. Sucuri’s blog post summarizes the issue. Magento also addresses this on their security website. What is the […]

Tweet While ShopSite comes with an easy to use, built-in reporting system; sometimes you need a more detailed or specific report. If you keep past orders in ShopSite you have a wealth of knowledge at your disposal. Report, What Report? For example, say a new add-on or option becomes available for a popular product you […]

Tweet With the seasons changing and warm weather winding to a close, online retailers are gearing up for the Holidays. With the beginning of the Holiday rush only a few weeks away, many online retailers are looking for last minute tips and trick on how to optimize their sites for the Holidays. Last year, the […]

Tweet Back in July, Magento announced the availability of the Magento 2 Merchant Beta release. This release is the last major milestone before the official Magento 2 version is released in the 4th quarter of 2015. A few links for more information about the Magento 2 Merchant Beta version: Magento 2 Blog Post on Magento.com […]