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Reducing PCI Scope for Your eCommerce Site   Security breach – two dreaded words that no merchant wants to hear. A breach can be devastating for everyone involved. “Each card number stolen can cost a business from $150 to $250. These costs appear in the form of legal settlements,..

Give Sales a Boost with Online Payments     Nowadays it’s so simple and affordable to create a website that no business should be without one. The same is true of accepting online payments. You can accept card payments through your website quickly and easily without the ne..

Increase your sales with OpenCart and Realex Payments   Realex Payments has integrated into the core of OpenCart. Being a leading online payment gateway, Realex Payments worked in conjunction with Welford Media, a comprehensive digital agency, to release an extensive new modu..

Are you ready for Xmas 2014 Online trading?   If you're an online business, now is the time to get prepared for the busiest trading season of the year! The Sage Pay Cyber Monday Survival guide will help you get ahead of the competition and make sure you're attracting and converting a..

That’s right, you can now download the long awaited OpenCart version 2.0. With the help of developers from around the world, thousands of development hours have gone into making sure that this is the best version of OpenCart yet. OpenCart 2.0 is packed full of brand new features, including:..

The Beta version of OpenCart 2.0 is now available to download, and we can’t wait for you to try it. You can get involved and help us make OpenCart 2.0 even better by testing the OpenCart 2.0 Beta to find any final bugs or issues before its general release. Whether you’re a developer, a design..

When?  1st and 2nd of October 2014   Where?  West Hall, Olympia London Hammersmith Road London W14 8UX   Stand number: 208     We had so much fun at the eCommerce Expo in London last year that we have decided to return agai..

Long gone are the days when simply having an online shop guaranteed sales for your business. The larger retailers have caught up with eCommerce and are increasingly competing with smaller businesses across a wide variety of products and services.   That’s why it’s so important th..

If you have ever arrived at a website from an advertisement or an email link, it’s extremely likely that you were taken to a landing page, rather than the website’s standard homepage. Landing pages are generally displayed when you click a link from an online advertisement, a search engine res..

It's finally done: you have a professional, responsive shop design and your product photographs and descriptions are looking fantastic. Your ecommerce store is now perfect, but... where are your customers? No matter how incredible your store is, without customers you won’t be able to turn your ..