Tweet Custom templates are very powerful and are easy to edit in ShopSite, but when you first get started with them it can be confusing to find what you need to edit and how to go about making those changes. In this blog post we’ll review the following: Where templates can be viewed/edited How to […]

Tweet On Sunday, May 31, 2015, the US Postal Service (USPS) released an update to their rates and services. One of the changes they made was: Origin ZIP Code required for Priority Mail International to Canada Sounds like a harmless change, but it has caused a few headaches with many ecommerce applications that offer USPS […]

Tweet Do you ever need to charge an extra fee to your customer’s credit card, or someone needs to place a custom order for something that isn’t available on your site?  It’s easy to process that payment online through your store using ShopSite’s Variable Price feature.  In this post we’ll show an example of how […]

Tweet ShopSite recently released Version 12 Service Pack 1 (SP1) of its award-winning ecommerce software. The new version has a number of new features, many bug fixes, and improvements that make this a “must upgrade” version for any ShopSite store owner. A list of all the new features may be found on the ShopSite website. […]

Tweet If you missed the news, Google published a blog post recently stating: Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to […]

Tweet Are you currently using or planning to use Universal Analytics to track e-commerce transactions in your ShopSite store?  Is your store also configured to use a shared SSL certificate during checkout?  If you have answered yes to both, you’ll want to keep reading. If you are unsure on the SSL question, here is a […]

Tweet It’s January, which means it’s time for us to compile reports on the holiday sales trends for small ecommerce merchants! Continuing our trend from 2012 and 2013, we’ll start by taking at a look at how the big e-tailers fared… The Big Store Stats comScore is our go-to source for holiday reporting for large […]

Tweet Are you having trouble configuring ShipWorks to connect to your ShopSite store?  Below we have screenshots from each step when adding a new store, and how to edit existing settings if it’s already configured but not working.  It’s quick and easy – you’ll be up and running in no time! Adding A New Store […]

Tweet So you have a slick mobile or responsive website… congratulations!  Now what?  How about a custom home screen icon to help further build your brand with mobile users!  In this post, we will review the steps required to enable home screen icon support for your website.  Mobile devices which support custom icons will display […]

Tweet As we’ve done each year, we’ll take a look at how a few hundred small merchant ecommerce stores fared during this holiday season. We’ll compare this to the big players as reported by IBM and comScore. Big stats first IBM reported the following: Thanksgiving sales up 14.3 percent over 2013, Average Order Value (AOV) […]