Tweet We’ve all seen it. That generic error when a credit card payment fails, but your customer is sure the details are correct, so why is it still failing? Merchant Alerts If you’ve upgraded to ShopSite Pro v11 SP2, then you have an excellent new feature available to you called Merchant Alerts. This option is […]
Tweet Even the largest companies in the world have outages. In case you missed the email from PayPal, they have a few small yet large planned outages this month: Saturday June 16, 11:30 PM PDT – 11:40 PM PDT (Sunday June 17, 2:30 AM EDT – 2:40 AM EDT) During these 10 minutes, payment processing […]
Tweet Why Javascript Frameworks are Used Javascript frameworks provide very convenient, compact methods for developers to manipulate the content and layout of web pages. For example, if I were to create a javascript function to toggle the visibility of all paragraph elements on a page with the class “myclass”: myclass”> when a button with […]
Tweet Google has opened the floodgates. As posted on their Google Retail Blog, Google Trusted Stores is now open to all US-based merchants! The program is free for merchants. If you’re accepted into the program, and meet their requirements (more on that below), you’ll have a trusted badge in search results, and one that […]
Tweet Wow! I was quite shocked to see the Google Blog Post today announcing that Google Product Search would be re-branded as Google Shopping *AND* will no longer be free for merchants to list their products: First, we are starting to transition Google Product Search in the U.S. to a purely commercial model built on […]
Tweet In case you couldn’t guess, I’m a Celtics fan. I’m pulling for the “seasoned veterans” to pull off one last miracle and overcome youth and athleticism with experience. It’s a long shot, but optimism is in my nature. Speaking of experience, here are a few articles that I found this month that will provide […]
Tweet I hope everyone has a safe, happy, and relaxing Memorial Day weekend! I know I’ll be taking advantage of the long weekend with the traditional parade, grilling out, and a little golf. In between all the festivities, if your ecommerce store offers real-time FedEx shipping rates, and you missed the email, make sure you […]
Tweet ShopSite’s latest and greatest, Version 11 Service Pack 2 (11 SP2), is on the street. It’s a great release chock full of new features and improved usability. Here’s what I’ve found to be of interest to merchants… For a full list of all new features, check out the ShopSite 11 SP2 New Features page. […]
Tweet You’ve configured the ShopSite USPS API but why is an error message showing up? This is a very common problem because there is a step during the configuration settings that is easily missed when signing up for the USPS API. If you do not contact the USPS after receiving your API login details and […]
Tweet Wow, I can’t believe it’s May already! April seemed like a blur. Baseball is in full swing (I assume you can tell my favorite team from looking at the pik), it’s finally getting into prime golf weather, and we’re busy as ever here at LexiConn (which is a good thing). Here are six gems […]
