Speed matters
Posted Jan 26, 2010 by qetzal. Filed under E-commerce
Have you ever thought about how fast your shopping cart is? We suggest doing so. According to many investigations your store speed directly influences your sales.
It's a well-known fact that every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% of profit. A 2 second delay is 20%, and so on.
Customers don’t like waiting. There are a zillion different web stores they can go to. So don’t irritate your visitors with delays, your pages should open fast, period.
So what are the ingredients of a really fast store?
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How to add your shopping cart to MySpace
Posted Jan 13, 2010 by qetzal. Filed under How to
One of the Ecwid advantages is the ability to deploy and use the application on different sites or social networks at the same time. This enables an enormous grow of number of your potential customers.
We already described how to create your own Facebook shopping cart and make your store available to 350 million of active users.
In this post we’ll instruct you on adding your Ecwid to MySpace — another large social network with millions of users.
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Ecwid v2.0 has been released.
Posted Dec 15, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under Ecwid News New Releases
We're pleased to announce that a new major Ecwid version(2.0) has been released. All Ecwid users have been upgraded.
This upgrade brings many highly anticipated features. Main of them are:
- New modes of displaying products: grid and table
- The list of available currencies is greatly extended
- Ecwid is now available as Google Gadget
- Integration with Google Analytics
- Support of Australia Post real-time shipping rates
- Ability to import products from CSV files in X-Cart and LiteCommerce formats
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How to add OpenSearch support to your shopping cart
Posted Nov 30, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under How to
OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats to share search results and discovery of search engines.
It allows accessing search engines directly from search boxes in some browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome.
In this post we will describe how to add OpenSearch support to your Ecwid shopping cart. So your customers will be able to search your products right from their browsers' search boxes.
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Ecwid November news
Posted Nov 20, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under Ecwid News
- New version of WordPress module is released.
- We're looking for help with Ecwid translation.
- A pilot video tutorial describing on how to add taxes to Ecwid.
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How to integrate your shopping cart with Facebook
Posted Nov 3, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under How to
There are more than 300 million active users on Facebook — such a great opportunity to get more customers to your e-store!
Win over more buyers by adding Ecwid to the Facebook ecosystem. It will take you 5-7 minutes at that. No PHP knowledge is required, no code changes or hosting expenses.
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Ecwid Availability
Posted Oct 17, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under Status updatesEcwid service was unavailable Friday, October 16, 15:54-22:35 (US Pacific Time Zone).
We greatly apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
All services are now back to normal functional level.
Follow us on Twitter
Posted Oct 7, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under Ecwid News
If you want to stay on top of all the latest news and happenings with Ecwid, you can follow Ecwid on Twitter (@ecwid). We will post announces, tips, suggestions and thoughts about e-commerce, and other interesting things.
If you don't want to get all the updates, but only want to know important news about current Ecwid health status, follow @ecwid status.
Welcome to Ecwid !
Posted Sep 25, 2009 by qetzal. Filed under Ecwid News New Releases
Wow! Finally, the day has arrived for us to open Ecwid to the public. Ecwid one of the first 100% AJAX e-commerce platforms in the world. We believe that this is THE right approach to add e-commerce to your site. No more mess with PHP, no more hosting glitches, no more trouble getting the software look like it's a fundamental part of your site.
We are not here to bash PHP: we have X-Cart and LiteCommerce, PHP products that have been the core of our business since 2001. We will continue to develop PHP e-commerce software. All of today's best shopping carts are PHP based. PHP always was and still is the way to go if you have a bunch of geeks constantly modding your site. But what if you need just a store, nice and easy, working in minutes? That's what Ecwid is for. And it is quite powerful, too. Read more..
