If you do business in Europe or the UK, you need to be aware of changing laws on cookie usage. You might use cookies to manage the shopping cart or for tracking purposes. No matter why, in early 2012 you might be required to explicitly ask permission to place a cookie on a customer’s PC …

Noticed FedEx Ground shipping seems to have disappeared on your osCommerce site? You are not alone. More and more customers are reporting that ground shipping is no longer being offered by FedEx API that the standard osCommerce FedEx Add On uses. While FedEx have announced this API is redundant as at 31 May 2012, it seems like the current one is broken so you need to upgrade now.

The new Google Merchant Center changes go into effect tomorrow night. If you have not updated your feed to handle the new requirements then you might find your feed suspended. Google has already started suspending feeds so the matter is quite urgent if you rely on them for any business.

We’ve gotten a few questions lately that relate to the scalability of osCommerce. Basically people want to know if they have a lot of products or get a lot of orders, will osCommerce cope with the load? Quick answer is yes.

Worried about PCI Compliance Scans? osCommerce 3.0 clears all security metrics requirements for PCI compliance.

osCommerce V3.0 has now been released. What does that mean for the osCommerce community. Do you need to upgrade or can you keep building on what you have? Good question …

osCommerce have announced that osCommerce V2.3 is due out 12 November 2010. Should you upgrade?

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.

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.

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?