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[1 Feb 2010 | Comments Off | 108 views]

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!

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[4 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 444 views]

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.

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[1 Jan 2010 | Comments Off | 304 views]

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.

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[13 Oct 2009 | Comments Off | 910 views]

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

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[29 Sep 2009 | One Comment | 861 views]

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?

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[11 Sep 2009 | One Comment | 926 views]

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?

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[3 Jul 2009 | 2 Comments | 1,193 views]

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!

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[28 Jun 2009 | One Comment | 1,538 views]

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 …

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[9 Jun 2009 | Comments Off | 1,741 views]

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 …

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[3 Jun 2009 | Comments Off | 1,157 views]

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 …

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[29 May 2009 | Comments Off | 942 views]

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

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[28 May 2009 | Comments Off | 1,166 views]

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!

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[1 May 2009 | One Comment | 834 views]

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

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[3 Apr 2009 | Comments Off | 910 views]

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.

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[15 Mar 2009 | 2 Comments | 1,221 views]

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.

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[1 Mar 2009 | Comments Off | 939 views]

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?

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[28 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | 1,027 views]

A lot of people don’t know what version of osCommerce they are running. There are two places you can look. Admin Tools Server information and application_top.php.

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[11 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | 996 views]

A lot of people contact us an say they want to upgrade to the latest release but have no idea what the latest release is.