Reducing cart abandonment. This is one topic that every online shopping site should constantly be working on. Each time you reduce your shopping cart abandonment rate you should be seeing an increase in sales. There are many, many ways to reduce cart abandonment. I’ll be covering this topic from time to time with suggestions and…
Category Archives: Shopping carts
Free shipping / Flat rate shipping / Variable shipping ~ what do you prefer?
I recently decided to update the shipping options at my online store. Not because I really wanted to, but because of Google Checkout not working well with Miva Merchant shipping modules. Up until just recently, most of my products were the same weight. Since they were all the same weight I could offer flat rate…
Miva Merchant users ~ don’t forget to disable Microsoft (Bing) cashback module on July 31st
For everyone who uses Miva Merchant, be sure to disable your Microsoft (Bing) cashback module on July 31st. If you’re not already aware of it, Bing is canceling the cashback program as of July 31, 2010. They’ve sent out several notices, but if you missed them I’ve included a portion of the latest email below….
Payvment ~ Facebook ecommerce shopping cart app
Looking for a way to sell your products through your Facebook page? Take a look at the Payvment Facebook shopping cart app. I started using Payvment a few months back for my ecommerce site and although I havn’t generated any sales yet through Facebook, the app was extremely easy to setup and use. Once I…
PCI DSS & PA-DSS Compliance and new processing requirements with Miva Merchant
If you sell online and accept credit cards you should know by now there are several new compliance issues that are right around the corner. PCI compliance is an ongoing issue, but the newest compliance issue coming up is PA-DSS compliance. Since I use Miva Merchant I’m really only concerned with these issues as they…
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