osCommerce has announced that it is upgrading the beta version of V3 to php 5.3 which will be the minimum requirement for running V3. Few hosting environments are running V3 yet.

MasterCard and Discover are modifying their rules concerning the processing of debit, prepaid and gift cards. Authorize.net has some information about how it can effect you.

We upgraded ozEcommerce Pro, our loaded verison of osCommerce, and it is now one of the best eCommerce solutions out there! Read what it does then go try our demo!

UPS increased rates today but unfortunately in doing so they (again) changed the names of various services which means the osCommerce UPS Methods Add On is not calculating correctly. If you use UPS Shipping, you need to check that your site and take action if youa re effected.

Oracle’s purchase of Sun means that the future of mySQL is at risk. Help save MySQL as an open source solution by signing the petition.

Not accepting PayPal yet on your site? Now with Bill Me Later as a PayPal linked offering you might want to think again …

Most osCommerce sites don’t even know how many carts gets abandoned let alone know why. Since you got them that far isn’t it a good idea to recover the sale?

Multistores are becoming quite popular as a way to broaden market reach thru niche sites. But is there an off the shelf solution to fit all needs?

According to several customers, the authorize.net gateway is down today 3 July 2009 and word is that is might only be back up today.  Do you have a backup payment process in place?  If  not then this is the time to review your disaster/recovery plans!

No. Under the 2008 Act, while you can email any customer, newsletter subscriber or “contact us” sender under the CAN-SPAM “relationship” guidelines, you must allow for recipients to unsubscribe from such messages without having to log into their account to do so. So none of the email processes in osCommerce comply …

We get asked this a lot. Quick answer is yes of course it is as long as you don’t use the “not for production” manual credit card module. Long answer is PCI compliance is a bit more than just the code …

Ever been busy entering products or writing a profound article to help your customer’s purchase decision only to press save and be asked to log back in, losing everything? Well you are not the only one. Read a trick for tricking Admin security …

RSS Product feeds have been around a while now. But are they really worth it?

If you have not updated your spiders.txt file lately, you might find some new Search Engines going shopping! So what? Well they can frighten away your customers, that’s what!

Amazon payments joins Paypal and Google Checkout as alternatives to mainstream credit card handling. Should you add it to your site?

UPS have announced changes to its XML Interface due to go live in 11 July 2009 plus changes to its SSL protocol planned for September 2009. It should not effect your site.

Alpha5 nicknamed “Vanillekipferl” will complete the technical upgrade of osCommerce to an object-oriented framework. The release is to go thru final testing before it is baselined end of March.

We have all been waiting for over 2 years now for MS 3 to be finalized but it has yet to happen. Will it be soon?