A common question asked by merchants looking to enter the world of online transactions is what shopping cart should they use for their new store. A common answer to this common question is to use os Commerce. osCommerce describes themselves as: osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for [...]
Shortly after its release, eBay banned Google’s new payment solution Google Checkout from being used to make payments for items purchased through their website. The reasoning eBay offered for this move is that a payment service must have a “substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services.” eBay did [...]
A common question asked of new online merchants is whether they have to have an SSL certificate on their website. The answer is, it depends. If you want a transparent checkout where your customers never leave your website then you will need an SSL certificate to make sure your checkout page is secure. Besides the [...]
A common question from merchants is where they can find logos and credit card related supplies for their business. Visa provides an online store for merchants which contains every day supplies, educational material, and promotional material some of which is free. You can find this at http://www.visafulfillment.com. General categories available include: Fraud and Security Gift [...]
The Authorize.net gateway is so popular that every major shopping cart, and minor ones, too, offer built in support for its services. But not every ecommerce solution uses an out-of-the-box solution. In these cases their developer coding the project will need to write their own code to interact with Authorize.net’s API. Typically interacting with any [...]
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