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Best Shopping Cart

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Best Shopping Cart

How the best shopping cart can make the best website

Some of the best shopping cart examples are those which are clear and obvious on a website. When a consumer is buying product online, the process needs to be a streamlined and as obvious as possible, as consumers change their habits when they shop online to be more fickle, and less reliable to have brand loyalty. This makes extra challenges for the company operating online, as they need to make their website much more obvious to navigate, easier to find in search listings and also much more intuitive with the consumers shopping habits.

When buying products online, many people will go on a mini shopping spree and buy several items at once. This is because of high shipping costs, and consumers feel that they need to buy more than one product to make it worthwhile to shop at that website. A good shopping cart will appear alongside the window that the consumer is browsing in, and keeps a clear tally of the overall cost of the shopping and the proposed postage costs. Many businesses find that they generate more sales by being honest with their consumers about the cost when they come to check out, and businesses that tend to add extras or hide the fact that prices do not include certain taxes often find that they lose consumer loyalty, and word spreads that the website has any undesirable downsides.

Just like in real stores, online shops work best when they offer consumers some kind of reward for the placing of their custom with that business. Some shopping carts allow businesses to set up a voucher or promotional code, whereby the client is given a discount code that takes a certain amount of money off the overall cost, or has other benefits such as free shipping or free upgrades to the shipping costs, and this code is entered into a box whilst shopping to reflect the new price on the shopping cart. Consumers love to see that they are saving money, and this is a great tool to retain business and can even win business from other websites.

Some of the most popular online shopping websites will invest their money to make sure that they have the best shopping cart available and also the best tools to make sure that the consumer has a pleasant experience while shopping with them. Picking a good hosting site for the website is vital to ensure minimum downtime and optimum performance on the website that can make or break a consumer’s experience of the shopping process. For very large websites, this cost can run into the hundreds each month, but a poor quality of hosting service with terrible reliability and lots of downtime can lose more than that in sales, and so many big businesses see this cost as a potential saving instead. This is one of the top tips for creating a successful website with maximum sales, and there are many websites that make the most of this advice to make more money.


Miva Merchant Conference 2011

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

e-Business Express at

Miva Merchant Conference 2011

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Visit e-Business Express at the Miva Merchant Conference, e-Business Express is featuring Mobile Commerce, Catalog on Demand & SMS Messaging. Now you can turn your website into a mobile site using MvMonsters Miva Merchant Mobile Module, you can also text message your customers with great savings. Checkout http://mobilehomepartsstore.com/sms scroll to the bottom and enter your mobile number for an example.

Thanks for visiting e-Business Express at the Miva Merchant Conference.


e-Business Express Update: Miva 4 End of Life Information

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

7-5-2011 New Post About Upgrading Miva 4 to 5

By now, you may have received an email from MIVA Merchant regarding the Miva Merchant 4.x PA-DSS Update and End of Life Announcement. We wanted to take a minute to clarify the points made in the email and provide the e-Business Express position on the Miva 4 EOL.

(* If you have not read he email, you can read the announcement at the following link: http://extranet.mivamerchant.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100973)

As outlined in the announcement, MIVA Merchant has elected to no longer support Miva 4 after December 31, 2011 and are recommending all Miva 4 user upgrade their stores at the earliest opportunity to MIVA 5.5 PR7 (the latest version of MIVA). Miva 5 PR7 offers many valuable enhancements including:

  • A highly intuitive Admin interface focusing on click-efficiency
  • Seamless import/export of all items and pages to/from Dreamweaverâ„¢
  • Built-in SEO features including full control of DOCTYPE, Product, and Category Metatags, and search-friendly links.
  • The ability to build a new store entirely on the new skins-enabled CSS framework.
  • PA-DSS Validated product release level.
  • Enhanced Order Processing features including RMA’s and editing of existing orders.
  • Built-in Order History and Order Status with Tracking links.
  • Inventory is now supported at the attribute level.

We recommend upgrading to Miva 5.5 PR7 to take advantage of the product enhancements and PA-DSS for PCI compliance provided by Miva Merchant. There are several steps that must be completed in order to successfully complete the upgrade process. Just a word of caution, Miva has provided a number of tools to help in the conversion, however it’s still pretty easy to corrupt your store, even if you’re experienced in Miva upgrades and module installs. You can upgrade the store yourself, or have us complete the upgrade to Miva 5.5.

No matter how you decide to complete the Miva 5.5 upgrade, we suggest scheduling a free upgrade consultation with e-Business Express before you do anything. During the consultation, we’ll discuss the following:

  • Your current release level and plug-in modules
  • The steps required to complete the upgrade
  • Upgrade tools available
  • Any questions you may have

In the event it is not possible or practical to upgrade to Miva 5.5 at this time, e-Business Express will continue to support your Miva 4 store, even after the Miva Merchant EOL date of December 31, 2010.

Remember to call for your Free Miva Merchant 5 PR7 release upgrade consultation.
877-907-3277 option 2

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