No, not that kind of stripping. I’m talking about taking out everything that is not essential to completing the sale on your checkout page.

You should always be asking yourself:
“What else can I remove to make the checkout process more streamlined?”

The latest version of ShopSite, Version 10 SP2, has been out for a while now. If you’ve recently upgraded, here a few tips and tricks that may be helpful when trying to integrate and use the new ShopSite features.

Ecommerce store owners often spend hours agonizing over the flow of the cart, whether there are too many images / distractions, removing insecure warnings, and making the cart easy to read and easy to check out. Lost in all of this is how shipping options are actually presented to the shopper. And what options are actually included.

It’s possible that your shipping options, as they are now, could be losing you sales…

Every online merchant is familiar with customers whose credit cards get declined when they try to finalize an order. There are a variety of reasons this can happen. And it happens often enough to be important.

It’s important because customers often do not know why the purchase did not go through. Many times they simply give up, or go somewhere else to buy the item.

Don’t let this opportunity to close the sale slip by…

A search feature on any ecommerce site is a necessity these days. But that’s the bare minimum. In order to be useful, it has to return results that your shoppers want.

Fortunately, you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on expensive search systems like SLI or Nextopia (although these are great search programs that integrate nicely with ShopSite and many ecommerce applications) to enhance your search results. It just takes a few minutes a day…

Customer Registration, when setup properly, can be an effective tool for any ecommerce store. However, there are a few pitfalls to avoid to make sure this enhances your online store as opposed to it driving sales away. Here are a few do’s and dont’s…

Google recently sent an email to all merchants using Google Product Search. Starting at the end of this month, Google expects that certain products include specific unique identifiers. Find out what the changes are, and how to implement them.

ShopSite has just released the latest version of their ecommerce software:
Version 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

ShopSite has a list of new features on their website. I thought I’d highlight a few of the new features in more detail.

I thought I’d take a moment to highlight a few of the specials we are currently offering, as well as a few services we provide that you may not know about…

On-site search is important. In fact, it can contribute to a large percentage of your sales. Setting up ShopSite’s search feature correctly is easy to do. Here’s the lowdown on what’s needed…