How To Start An Ecommerce Business While Working Your 9-5
We live in a digital age. The vast majority of people utilize technology on a daily basis for everything in their lives from working to shopping and even for education. Because...
Using CartStack + ProductCart to Recover 15% of Lost Sales
Using CartStack + ProductCart to Recover 15% of Lost Sales 2018 has brought with it several new challenges for ecommerce managers and digital marketers. You must be cognizant of...
Ready-to-go ProductCart templates
We are getting more and more requests for ready-to-use, professionally designed store designs ("templates") for ProductCart-powered stores. This makes a lot of sense: there are many companies out there that are happy to spend on a good template, but might not have the...
Store design and ProductCart: you’re in control!
We just updated one of our demo stores on earlyimpact.com. This is a slightly edited version of the standard store design that comes with ProductCart v4. Adding Twitter updates to the right-side column literally took less than 2 minutes. It truly is empowering the...
PCI Compliance Step 2: which Self Assessment Questionnaire applies to you
This is the second of a series of articles that we will publish in an attempt to make things a bit more clear when it comes to PCI Compliance. In the first article, we talked about how to find out what kind of merchant you are (the "merchant level"). Your merchant...
PCI Compliance Step 1: Find out your merchant level
This is the first in a series of articles that we will make available in an effort to help you better understand PCI compliance, how it affects you, and how to navigate through its somewhat confusing requirements. If you’re a small business, but not a user of our...
Small businesses, PCI compliance, and ProductCart
I was recently interviewed by Practical eCommerce on PCI compliance. It's a confusing topic for many. There are many areas that are unclear, even if you take the time to do your research. For example: Is this a requirement? I heard it is, but no one's asking me about...
ProductCart v4 Release Schedule
Today we are officially releasing ProductCart version 4, the updated, improved, and PA-DSS Compliant new version of our shopping cart software. Learn more about what's new in ProductCart v4 ProductCart v4 is now PA-DSS Compliant Purchase ProductCart v4 The release...
ProductCart v4 receives PA-DSS validation
ProductCart v4, our upcoming new release, is PA-DSS Compliant. This is an important achievement, which validates all the work we have done over the years to make ProductCart compliant with PCI security standards. The PA-DSS Compliant status of ProductCart v4 will help...
ProductCart Add-on’s: a growing family!
Growing list of ProductCart Enhancements It's exciting to see Certified ProductCart Developers come up with more and more add-on's for ProductCart. For example, this image handling time saver is the latest idea that Sean at Web Merchant Services came up with. For a...
ProductCart v4 Release
We are officially shooting for October 19, 2009 as the release date for ProductCart v4. We were hoping for an end-of-September release, but the brand-new "One Page Checkout" system required much more fine tuning work than we anticipated. See what's coming in v4 Test...
WebTappeti wins e-commerce award
An awesome-looking ProductCart-powered store recently won an e-commerce award in Italy. It's WebTappeti (tappeto = "rug"). Congratulations to both WebTappeti and to our long-time partner NWEB for the great work on that project!
Time for an official Early Impact blog
Aren't we a little late to the game? Yep. The reason why we didn't start earlier is that blogs are only useful if they are often, accurately updated. Which takes time. And time is pretty scarce at Early Impact, believe me (in fact, I am totally ashamed for the fact...