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I look at a lot of ecommerce carts and ShopSite ® installations each day. And I often see the same “little” mistakes repeated over and over.

The problem is, what a merchant may see as little and unimportant could easily be a deal breaker for a potential customer.

The good news is these small errors are easily corrected. Here’s 7 that I see regularly.

Google recently posted to their Merchant Blog about upcoming changes for merchants. They also recently sent out an email about these changes to all merchants. Here’s what this means for ShopSite merchants.

Google Product Search (formerly known as Google Base, and formerly known as Froogle) is a great, FREE service that Google offers to all ecommerce merchants. It allows merchants to easily list their products in Google so people can search for them.

We recently announced our latest ShopSite add-on module, the Coupon Creation Module. Here is a simple way to send personalized coupons to subscribers in your email marketing list…

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.

Just a quick reminder that our upcoming live webinar, Accounting Integration for ShopSite Merchants, is on Thursday, March 10th. What’s it about?…

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…

There are times when you may want a product to be available for viewing on your ShopSite store, but you don’t want people to be able to see the price or add it to their cart without a password. In this blog post we’ll show you some basic PHP code that can be used in a template to hide these sections of a page.