If I told you, "you can protect your business with just ONE minute per week," you'd do whatever I said, wouldn't you? Well, I'm going to give you that answer — at the end of this post. read more
Coupon promotions can be an amazing way to bring new customers into your store resulting in an increase in transactions and revenue. But what would you do if a coupon got out into the public that you never intended to? It's happened recently to an online retailer, and it could happen to you.
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As your payment solution provider, we're working hard to stay up-to speed on the latest trends and technologies related to your customer's checkout process. Almost weekly we're approached about some new payment system or gateway. We feel this one is worth looking into and investing some time to understand.
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FoxyCart v1.1 is live! Support for Dwolla, Bitcoin, Amazon FPS, iDEAL, and more, as well as a word about our status and what else we're working on.
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One of things I've heard quite often from frustrated API users is the people who create the APIs don't actually use them. They don't know how difficult they are to work with in order to actually accomplish something useful. We can relate to this at our very core because at our very core, we're developers.
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We wanted to highlight a few FoxyCart merchants that we (either as a company or individual FoxyCart team members) have purchased from. Though we’ve done a lot of test checkouts over the years, it’s actually really surprising to experience it with our real money. Kind of an interesting experience to see just how fast the checkout is at taking customers’ money (safely and securely, of course).
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Product reviews are far more important than inbound links for SEO, or for confirming to other potential buyers that your service doesn't suck. Reviews are most useful for learning from your most important asset: your users. At least, that's our take :)
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As a FoxyCart store, you deserve a full and candid explanation of downtime with our service, we want to tell you what measures we've taken to ensure that your store stays up and running.
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REST + Hypermedia = HATEOAS, but what standard to choose for JSON hypermedia formatting (and beyond)? That's a great question, and we don't yet know the answer.
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A key aspect of any online store is delivering the most straightforward way for your customers to go from selecting a product to paying for the order. FoxyCart has always put a focus on making sure this flow is as streamlined and easy as possible, from the modal cart and single page checkouts, to the ability for customers to easily checkout as a guest and for returning users to quickly validate their login. One aspect of the checkout we’ve wanted to improve, however, was our autocompleter (used for the country and state/province fields). FoxyComplete is the end result of that.
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Does v1.0 seem like a low number considering FoxyCart has been live for 5 years and processed $100M+ in transactions for thousands of merchants around the entire globe? Yes. Yes indeed. But today, FoxyCart v1.0 goes live.
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Guest blogger Patrick sums up why off-the-shelf ecommerce systems don't help niche merchants, as well as why just having an "search engine optimized" platform isn't enough.
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We recently got an email from Ryan, a long-time FoxyCart user who’s contemplating a shift in his approach to web development and client work. Ryan has spent years with a partner, building high-quality sites for clients with decent budgets. Though this type of work definitely pays the bills, it also requires a fair amount of communication with clients. Ryan was ready for a change, and it’s from that perspective that he asked us the following:
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We’ve received a lot of great feedback about our new pricing. Most of it’s been understanding and positive, though there have been many users that have expressed concern about how it’d be received by their clients. Since the last post was so epicly long, we’ll try to keep this one short and to the point.
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If you're a niche merchant, you're selling something unusual, uncommon. Maybe you make and sell in small batches, or deliver in a way that's not available elsewhere.
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