Archive for the ‘Cart Features’ Category
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
I'm working on extensions to Zen Cart that will allow you to automatically create coupons based on either the cart contents or the order total. Take a look at Spender AutoCoupon and Chooser AutoCoupon (the syntax they use is derived from Big Spender and Big Chooser, which is ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Since we talked about t-shirts on Monday, I thought I'd wrap the week up with the same theme.
I have admired from afar the "clothing for the 2 and 20 crowd" produced by vcwear.com, but when I saw their latest offering last week, called "Revenue is Sexy"
I literally could not ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Entrepreneur Magazine provides an interesting writeup on RatePoint, a new service which hosts and manages customer feedback. I thought RatePoint's service was very clever and nicely implemented, but not well suited for online enterprises like That Software Guy because of the prominence of map and address information on the review ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
CatalogSuccess.com talks about the judicious use of AJAX. He makes the critical point that you need to be sure to degrade gracefully (i.e. don't fall off the cliff if the user has JavaScript disabled).
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
e-Commerce website fididel.com has an interesting spin - it uses real humans in the haggling process instead of completely automating it. We'll see if this catches on.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
There's some question as to whether cart owners should "follow up" with people who have registered and added items to their cart but failed to checkout. This shopper responds with a big fat no! (and a hilarious graphic to boot). My personal opinion is that since it's ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
A recent thread on the Zen Cart forum dealt with newsletter services for small businesses. I use and recommend MailChimp for this purpose, because I think that on a price/performance basis they are unbeatable. One of the posters replied, "I think I'll use phpList because it's ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
This was an interesting post from Social Media Optimization. I wonder when video will be as standard as still images are now on shopping carts.
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
The guys over at SoftwareProjects.com recently built a list of qualities that describe the perfect cart. I guess the only thing that surprised me was the preference for the hosted model - but it makes sense when you consider that respondents were merchants and not developers.
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
A great idea from ShoeLine.com - the Return-O-Meter.
When you're shopping for a shoe, you can quickly see not only how frequently the shoe was returned, but the reason for the return.
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