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New Article: Ecommerce 101

June 27th, 2008

A new article was launched today: Ecommerce 101. This article covers the basics of getting started with ecommerce including:

Website Requirements
Shopping Cart Abandonment
Do’s and Don’ts of Ecommerce Design
Shopping Carts and Order Management
Domain Names
SSL Certificates
Web Hosting
Accepting Payment
Payment Gateway
Compliance Issues
Fraud Control
Promoting Your Ecommerce Store
Search Engine […]

Handling Authorize.Net ARB Subscription Failures

May 1st, 2008

One common complaint about the Authorize.Net Automated Recurring Billing (ARB) system is that there is no way to handle subscriptions that are declined when processing a future scheduled payment. As it turns out there is a way to handle this failures programmatically and automate your response to them.
Authorize.Net has a little known, and poorly documented […]

New Article: Merchant Accounts 101

March 19th, 2008

A new article has been published today that we are very excited about. Merchant Accounts 101 covers the ins and outs of merchant accounts.
Covered in this article are:

The Players

Find out who’s who in the merchant account business. We start at the […]

New Article: Integrate the Authorize.Net Recurring Billing API with PHP

February 26th, 2008

We are happy to announce a new article has been published today. Integrate the Authorize.Net Recurring Billing API with PHP is a follow up to our article Integrate the Authorize.net Payment Gateway with PHP. This new article expands upon our original article by explaining how the Authorize.Net recurring billing API works and walks developers through […]

Flash and Ecommerce

February 19th, 2008

According to Adobe Flash is “…the most advanced authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms. Create interactive websites, rich media advertisements, instructional media, engaging presentations, games, and more”. Although Flash can be used to create dynamic applications it commonly is used for adding a “WOW” factor to many websites.
While […]