December 29, 2011 By Outright.com There are two kinds of posts that are inevitable this time of year. One is the never-ending barrage of holiday posts, telling you everything and anything you would ever want to hear about buying and selling. The other, of course, is the end-of-the-year-get-ready-for-tax-season post. We hate to tell you, but [...]
Consumers Use Ecommerce Solutions for More Expensive Purchases
December 27, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Shopify app SumAll has completed an analysis of current Shopify customers providing insight on rising prices, increasing discounts, and decreased shipping costs. The study was conducted over four years (2007-2011) and derived findings from 30 million transactions from stores powered by Shopify. Overall the data shows retailers [...]
Ecommerce Solution Sharing Spree Combines Daily Deals and Philanthropy
December 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team The concept of linking sales to non-profits is a swiftly growing phenomenon. Websites like Nonprofitshoppingmall.com and GoodShop.com allow consumers to donate to charities through their ecommerce purchases using a click-through technology. Although these websites have been around for the past decade, their success has been limited and [...]
Ecommerce Credit Card Processing Fees Can Be Deceiving
December 21, 2011 Guest post By Michael Dolen, founder and CEO of CreditCardForum How much does your eStore pay for card processing? Unfortunately the answer is rarely clear-cut. There are many factors that go into the calculation of card credit card processing fees: 1. Your Business Type – What are you selling and to whom? [...]
Ecommerce Solution Offers Non-Profit “Shopping Mall”
December 20, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team A new study shows more holiday shoppers are bound to make last minute purchases this year. A recent survey by BIGresearch found that by the second week of December the majority of shoppers had completed less than 50% of their holiday shopping. According to the study, 37 [...]
TransPerfect Minimizes Risks Of Using Multilingual E-commerce Sites
December 19, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Countless ecommerce sites are offering holiday deals this year, but shoppers will gravitate to retailers that provide security and efforts to prevent identity theft. Given the ease of global Internet shopping, consumers are buying products from companies all over the world, and, especially when dealing with foreign [...]
“Green Monday” Marks Continuing Holiday Ecommerce Success
December 16, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Ecommerce solution eBay coined the term “Green Monday” in 2007 to describe the second Monday in December, which for the past six years has marked the most (or second-most in 2005 and 2007) profitable shopping day of the year for online retailers. “Green Monday” has been exceptionally [...]
Groupon Co-founders Invest in Belly
December 15, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Belly, a Chicago-based startup formerly known as “Bellyflop,” has secured more than $1 million in funding from Lightbank. Lightbank is an investment vehicle owned by Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, that also contributed $1.5 million in seed funding to Benzinga this past May. Belly integrates [...]
Shopping Cart Tool TapBuy Now Available for Retailers
December 14, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team TapBuy is a new technology that aims to simplify the m-commerce checkout process and increase conversion rates. Available now to retailers, developers, and shopping aggregators, TapBuy facilitates a quick and easy sales conversion by storing shopper’s billing and shipping information. TapBuy technology can be integrated into retailer’s [...]


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