In a previous blog post, I wrote about effectively using ShopSite’s Customer Registration Feature for your online store. Concepts such as not making it required, ensuring it’s easy to understand, and how to correctly add sign-in and register links to your web pages.

If you’ve mastered these ideas, here is one other option to round out your awesome registration system…

A while back we wrote about how to easily arrange product and page links, and today we’re going to review a similar topic that’s often requested: How to sort products from newest to oldest.

ShopSite doesn’t track the date when you add a new product, but with an Extra Product Field you can store the date and then sort the products by that extra field when they are displayed.

If you use real-time FedEx shipping rates in your online store, were you aware of the FedEx planned outages coming up next month? If not, this could cost you lost sales, as your cart would error out instead of returning shipping options. All it takes is a simple email signup…

Tweet There is a very powerful but often overlooked feature in ShopSite called Variable Price. Available in both ShopSite Manager & Pro, it’s found near the top of the Edit Product Info screen: Link: ShopSite Docs for Edit Product Info Screen A variable priced product can be often used as a creative solution when a […]

Google is once again making changes to their Google Product Search Feed Specifications for ecommerce merchants. In a recent blog post, Google states the latest changes are going to become “law” on September 22, 2011.

Google’s blog post has a good overview of the changes, but I thought I’d take a detailed look at the actual requirements so merchants can update their feeds to be in compliance…

ShopSite’s latest release, version 11, has been available since June 1st. Over the past 6 weeks, we’ve learned a lot about v11. I thought I’d share a few of the things we’ve discovered.

ShopSite has some excellent tips and tricks on their website in the Designer’s Cookbook, and today we want to highlight one of those for you since it’s very useful for obtaining product options from a customer when the usual drop-down boxes that product options use are not appropriate.

ShopSite ® released version 11 of its flagship ecommerce software two weeks ago. We knew it would be a popular update, as the new version contains a number of highly requested features, and many cool add-ons as well.

Sometimes you want to display a simple list of products, but break the products into different categories. While ShopSite provides for different sorting options and you can even order the products on the page manually, there is no stock feature to break them into categories. However, this can be easily accomplished with 2 custom templates and an extra product field.

In this article we’ll review the settings, sample templates, and a demo page where you can see a working example.

The latest version of ShopSite ®, our favorite ecommerce software application, has been released. Version 11 brings a number of new features to the table. We’re very excited about many of them, and we think ShopSite merchants will be as well.

I thought I’d highlight a few of the big changes and some that might fly under the radar…