Must-Use Facebook Strategies for eCommerce Marketing
Facebook is the largest social media platform on the planet today. Saying Facebook is massive is a bit of an understatement! At one point, many businesses built their entire...
eCommerce Trends to Watch for in 2019
2018 is coming to a close and 2019 is creeping ever closer. For some, this is has been a "down" year when it comes to eCommerce business, but the winds are shifting and if these...
What’s happening in the ProductCart community?
There's all kinds of discussions happening in the ProductCart community every week, and some of them take place on the ProductCart forums at http://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/ customers that discuss ideas about how to accomplish a certain task with ProductCart;...
An ecommerce bridge to over 40 accounting systems
One of the biggest headaches of running an ecommerce business is getting data from the online store to your company's accounting package. As things grow and your company starts using a CRM and/or ERP system, moving data to and from those systems becomes another...
FedEx Web Services Phase II is now available!
After several months of internal development and working closely with the certification team at FedEx, we are happy to announce that Phase II of FedEx Web Services has been completed! This new integration will allow merchants that enable FedEx's latest solution to not...
Apps for ProductCart: a list of recently updated partner add-on’s
There are many apps for ProductCart developed in the ProductCart community. We call them "Partner Add-on's", to differentiate them from the add-on's for our shopping cart software that have been developed internally here at Early Impact. Many of these apps are very...
The ProductCart Support & Updates Plan… What and Why?
Over the past few years, several customers have asked us to explain the specific terms and purpose of the Support & Updates Plan, so we decided to turn it in to a blog post. Before we talk about that however, we think it makes sense to briefly describe the...
Subscriptions are hot. ProductCart is ready (and getting better!)
News that The Honest Company - an online merchant that sells diapers and other baby essentials as a monthly subscriptions - recently pick up a hefty $27 million in venture funding caught our eye today. Subscription-based businesses have been around for a long time,...
New ProductCart case study: Direct Pet Supplies
First of all, we love their mascot. Secondly, they did a fantastic job overall with their ProductCart-powered store. So, meet Direct Pet Supplies, the latest addition to our popular gallery of ecommerce case studies. More or less every month, we take a closer look at...
New ProductCart case study: MONO Cases
MONO designs and produces great looking cases for all sorts of musical instruments, backpacks for busy DJs, and many other products. The design in all of their products - modern and clean - gives them a very distinctive personality, while conveying an image of great...
Why we chose PayPal for mobile checkout
Mobile commerce is getting hotter and hotter, with over $10 billion worth of products and services being purchased on mobile devices this year - according to Internet Retailer - and over 60% of shoppers saying that they are willing to buy using their phone during this...
AddThis integration in ProductCart v4.5: a handy little feature
A handy, little feature in v4.5 of our shopping cart software is the AddThis integration. It makes it easy for you to add social networking icons to your store, letting visitors share those pages on social networks such as Twitter or Facebook. Here's a screencast on...
Introducing the Sales Manager for ProductCart v4.5
One of the most important new features introduced with ProductCart v4.5 is the Sales Manager. The idea was to make it really quick and easy for a store manager to: Pick products in the store catalog Put them on sale Start & stop the sale Keep an archive of all...
ProductCart v4.5 starts shipping today
Today we started shipping ProductCart v4.5 to new customers. The ProductCart v4.5 Update for existing customers should be available on Monday (we're doing some final testing on the update script to make sure everything works right!). We're excited about ProductCart...