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It has come to our attention that anyone hosted at godaddy and using the PDG software are experiencing problems with payment gateways and real time shipping carriers. The issue is that godaddy used to require that we have 2 special configuration variables inserted into the shopper.conf file located on your server in order to work. [...]

Hello there..is anyone looking for a way to code a search by size using style items from POS? If so then you can follow the instructions below. This only works like this in version 5: Once you have hardcoded your search menu and broken it up by size. The links should look something like this: [...]

The following communication was sent from PayPal regarding merchants that currently process American Express payments. Details for accommodating for this change can be found at the bottom of this post. What’s Changing PayPal and American Express have entered into a new agreement that will take effect July 2010. As part of this agreement, Website Payments [...]

According to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, a macro-economic report tracking national retail and service sales, today provided summary results for the holiday shopping season. The data showed year-over-year growth in the period between Black Friday through December 24 in all sectors measured. In addition, six out of ten sectors showed positive growth in the period from [...]

Ran into another useful article from our friends at Practical eCommerce magazine that addresses implementing Yahoo and Bing paid listings into Google Analytics. Very useful to be able to compare the success of your paid search listings across multiple channels all in one spot. http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1288-Integrating-Yahoo-Search-and-Microsoft-Bing-with-Google-Analytics Enjoy!

In a recent search of the Government Security website, we  found this article (http://www.governmentsecurity.org/articles2/ecommercesecurity.php) that gave some tremendous insight into the environment we all work so tirelessly in and how to address it’s protection.  An ounce of prevention…is worth a pound of cure.