FedEx SmartPost may take a couple of days longer than FedEx Ground, but this shipping method is typically worth it due to its lower cost. FedEx SmartPost is for non time critical B2C packages which utilizes USPS for final delivery to its destination address. To use FedEx SmartPost for your outbound shipping, you will need to […]
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Accept payments online with Square Connect API v2
Square was originally used for accepting payments at your brick & mortar business locations only. They have never before allowed e-commerce transactions via an API… UNTIL NOW. On March 30, 2016, Square released the Square Connect version 2 of their API which now provides a Transaction endpoint for online credit card processing. Of course, to stay PCI compliant, […]
UPS SurePost
We have recently seen a spike in requests from our customers asking us if UPS SurePost is supported within our software. We checked the UPS Developer Kit APIs for Rates and Service Selection, Shipping, Time In Transit, Address Validation, etc but couldn’t find any mention about Sure Post there. Does it have it’s own API? After […]
How SEO-Cart Handles Abandoned Orders
Every e-commerce website deals with abandoned orders. There are many reasons that a potential customer trying to place an order may abandon their order. This is by no means a complete list, but it could be the shipping cost is higher than they expected it would be, their desired payment method is not accepted, or […]
Increase visitor engagement with a product Q&A section
SEO-Cart is constantly adding new features that will help you connect with your customers and increase sales. Our newest feature allows your customers to ask questions about your products, right from your product pages. With the Product Q&A enabled on your store you open up a dialogue that will increase consumer confidence for anyone visiting […]
Google points its finger to better Mobile Usability
Mobile usage is increasing. We all know it’s happening and mobile/tablet usage should continue to grow. Google knows this and is letting others know through recent software updates to Chrome and Webmaster Tools. If your existing website is outdated and not optimized for mobile and other non-desktop devices, you could be losing out on traffic and […]
Utilizing Twitter Product Cards for your Ecommerce Website
Twitter product cards help facilitate rich product data from your website to Twitter. If a tweet is posted or retweeted with a product page URL with Twitter cards enabled, the tweet will include not only the product name, but the image, price, SKU, and a short product description to help engage more click-throughs and ultimately more sales. […]
Display your Customer Service Telephone Number and Contact Us Form
One of the first things customers look for when visiting an e-commerce website is the customer service or business contact information. It is very important that a customer looking to purchase product or services from an e-commerce website can clearly see how to contact customer service if they have a pre-sales or post-sales question or […]
Increase E-commerce Conversion Rates with Abandoned Shopping Cart Notifications
If you run an online store, it is a fact that you will eventually have someone abandoned their shopping cart. There are two levels of shopping cart abandonment: Customers who add items to their shopping cart without logging in to their account or entering any customer information. Customers who add items to their shopping cart, […]
Micro Formatted Breadcrumbs
Recently, we have enabled micro-formatted data for breadcrumbs within SEO-Cart. Scouring the Internet, there seems to be a lot of ambiguity and gray areas when it comes to the markup for breadcrumb data. With a little help from W3C’s proposed breadcrumb schema, we thought we would clear some things up here: Breadcrumb rich snippet data is […]
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