Tweet Google recently launched Shopping Campaigns, a new type of Adwords campaign, which is set to replace Product Listing Ad campaigns (PLA’s).  New Merchant Center feeds are required to use the new Shopping Campaign type.  According to Google, legacy feeds will be migrated to the new campaign type later this Summer (August 2014 ETA). The […]

Tweet Your store is online, you’re taking orders, but is shipping them taking too long?  We have a time-saver for you: LexiConn has recently released a module to integrate your ShopSite store with ShipStation, a hosted order management system which can print all your shipping labels and even notify your customers of their tracking numbers. […]

Tweet If your store is currently configured to send order notifications with the customer as the ‘From’ address (default setting), you may soon stop receiving these notifications.  This will apply to any merchant currently forwarding order notifications to GMail, Yahoo and other 3rd party mail servers. This is true even if your store email address […]

Tweet There are two broad types of ecommerce solutions: 1. Software that is installed in a hosting account (like ShopSite or Magento) -or- 2. Software as a service [SaaS] (no installation or ownership of files like Volusion, Shopify, BigCommerce, etc…) (Remotely hosted shopping cart) Although the idea of not having to install or maintain any […]

Tweet JavaScript can be used for a variety of features on the Shopping Cart page in ShopSite, such as this tip for showing the amount left to purchase to receive free shipping, and today we’re going to look at a very simple piece of code which will pop-up an alert to the customer with a […]

Tweet In this post, we are using the ShopSite Product Review module to display a single page containing reviews/testimonials for selected products (or all products depending on catalog size and number of available reviews). Merchandising > Custom Templates > Pages/Products 1.  Create a new Product template containing only a [– DEFINE PRODUCT –] section (You […]

Tweet A few months ago we reviewed how you can use JavaScript to sell product in quantity increments, but that method only took effect on the cart.  What if you want to enforce the limits at the product level and use drop-downs so the customer can easily select their quantity? In this post we’ll provide […]

Tweet Ah, the dreaded the postal code returned from PayPal did not match the cart message in ShopSite… It can be confusing, annoying, and ultimately result in lost sales… What really happens? When a customer enters a ship to zip / postal code in the shopping cart that does not match the ship to zip […]

Tweet ShopSite templates often use global variables to store and display values, such as page types (page, product, cart, etc…), layout options (colors, widths, etc…), loop counters and more. Here are a few important facts about variables and their usage within ShopSite templates: 1.  Variables may contain either numeric or string values.  When assigning a […]

Tweet In this post, we are covering the use of Google Analytics (GA) ‘Goals’ to monitor Customer Engagement.  In addition to standard reporting of goals, we can also monitor them using GA’s REAL-TIME view – lots of fun when a big promotion is in progress Conversions > Goals Real-Time > Conversions For our purposes, we’ll […]