A great way to build brand recognition and buzz about your site is to engage your customers using social media.  It is also a good way to help drive traffic and help bring other potential customers to your store.  In today’s world of fickle tastes, it’s no longer safe to think only of FaceBook as [...]

So busy in fact we’ve had little time to post new articles on our blog. So we wanted to give you an insight into what’s keeping us busy here at AbleCommerce and ask for your help. So what is it that’s keeping us so busy here at AbleCommerce?  We’re busier than Santa’s elves working on [...]

AbleCommerce is now entering its 18th year in business, having survived both the dot.com crash of 2000 and the bursting of the housing bubble in 2008.  We are now at a point where we seem to be heading into even more uncertain times.  With over 400 shopping cart solutions on the market, we’re certain to see this consolidate in [...]

 Mobile Commerce is small, but growing rapidly.  Merchants who sell to customers who are heavy mobile users (like teenagers), or who sell to segments amenable to mobile purchases (music, car parts, clothing) should look closely.  Here are a few statistics:   PayPal processed $500,000,000 in mobile payments last year By 2015, it expects the mobile commerce [...]

 In our last blog posting we talked about the primary reasons that we don’t recommend multi-store ecommerce for the vast majority.  This time we’ll cover the performance and customization issues surrounding multi-store ecommerce.  Finally, we’ll honestly address when multi-store could be a benefit.  Ecommerce software has become complex though the years with literally hundreds of [...]

AbleCommerce has been helping entrepreneurs with their shopping cart needs longer than any anyone, so we’ve seen a lot of changes and fads over the last 18 years.  We know by now that you don’t always jump on the latest bandwagon just because others are doing so.  The latest trend in ecommerce is what merchants [...]

An update for AbleCommerce 7.0.7 is available.  The Service Release is a cumulative patch correcting issues found after the release of AbleCommerce 7.0.7 build 14481.  The AbleCommerce help site was also just updated to make it easier to find the most relavent and up to date information, but for your convenience the change log is included below. Details and download of [...]

Increase the security on your AbleCommerce store by NOT using known email addresses for administrative user names.  This makes it even more difficult for a hacker to breach your account as they would have to guess both your user name and your password. This also prevents a hacker from requesting a lost password email for an [...]

Sitefinity’s AbleCommerce integration allows you to not only manage your content, but also your online store. Business users can update their product catalog and in the same system add new blog posts. Using a PCI Certified Membership provider, you can ensure that your store safely processes online payments and keeps user’s personal data secure. Business [...]

We recently phoned over 300 small merchants, regarding their current solution and PCI compliance.  We found, that most are not worried about PCI compliance (your data).  Most have adopted a wait and see attitude towards PCI Compliance… wait until they see Visa actually put some teeth on their mandates. The editor of Practical eCommerce goes even further stating [...]