If you’re an ecommerce merchant that offers real-time shipping rates in your shopping cart, you know the pain that comes with a shipper you use being down or not working correctly…

Lost sales, incorrect shipping rates, frustrated customers, and lots of time trying to untangle the mess afterwards.

What’s worse is this usually happens when you least expect it. The good news is…

There are a few simple ways to know when these issues arise.

As of June 1st, having regular FTP enabled on your website invalidates PCI. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) is what governs the rules and regulations for securing credit card data.

If you’re an ecommerce merchant and accept credit cards, you are required to be PCI compliant. Failure to be PCI compliant can subject your company to fees and fines.

ShopSite ® released version 11 of its flagship ecommerce software two weeks ago. We knew it would be a popular update, as the new version contains a number of highly requested features, and many cool add-ons as well.

A little late with the top posts of May, but we’ve been crazy busy with ShopSite 11 upgrades.

I love the month of May. Time to plant new grass for the lawn, a taste of summer, and golf gets into “full swing” (pun intended).

Of course May also has some great ecommerce pages and posts, so check them out on your iPad while you’re lounging next to the pool.

Sometimes you want to display a simple list of products, but break the products into different categories. While ShopSite provides for different sorting options and you can even order the products on the page manually, there is no stock feature to break them into categories. However, this can be easily accomplished with 2 custom templates and an extra product field.

In this article we’ll review the settings, sample templates, and a demo page where you can see a working example.