January 19, 2012 By the ZippyCart Content Team January is always a great time for merchants to plan their strategy for the coming year, so it makes sense that they would want to gain some insight as to what type of trends could impact their business in 2012. We recently had the opportunity to discuss [...]

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 [...]

August 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team WePay, an independent, smaller-scale alternative to larger transaction services like PayPal, has been creating a buzz since 2008 when the company was founded. Their claims of “real customer service by real people,” and super-easy-to-use interface help intensify this buzz when they officially launched to the public in [...]

June 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Every ecommerce solution wants you to think that they are secure. Some of them are even PCI compliant like BigCommerce. But finding great security combined with a powerful shopping cart for a good price can be hard. Here are Zippycart, we pride ourselves on bringing you unbiased [...]

April 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Believe it or not, April Fools 2011 is finally here and pranksters around the world have already been playing practical jokes on their friends and co-workers. Over the past decade, April Fools has started to become a bigger deal online, with businesses like Google, YouTube, and ThinkGeek [...]

March 22, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Over the last few years, the needs of online merchants have evolved. To keep up with this, the top ecommerce software solutions have had to focus on merchant expectations in order to continue to grow and expand their business. Some solutions have embraced changes, while others still [...]

March 7, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Lately the only celebrity that everyone seems to be talking about is Charlie Sheen, after he refused to go to rehab and had to visit the hospital due to some reported intense partying. All of the chaos resulted in Two and a Half Man stopping production, and [...]

March 3, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team Recently ZippyCart had a chance to chat with Matt Scoble, VP Business Development at Quorus, a Seattle startup with SaaS-based social commerce solutions that a variety of online businesses can leverage. There are plenty of companies dabbling in social shopping and social commerce, but not many of [...]

March 1, 2011 By the ZippyCart Content Team It is becoming increasingly common for merchants who are starting their very first online store to decide to go with hosted shopping carts in order to start selling as quickly as possible. There are a variety of reasons why merchants choose hosted solutions instead of licensed software [...]

February 25, 2011 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team In 2010 one of the hot topics among merchants was social commerce, and as a result the best ecommerce solutions started to provide ways to tap into Facebook which helps merchants expand the reach of their online store. Some solutions jumped on this merchant [...]

February 23, 2011 By the ZippyCart Shopping Cart Reviews Content Team Typically when an NBA player is traded there is not much chatter about it, but when the news broke that superstar Carmelo Anthony (aka Melo) was traded from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks, fans quickly started to give their opinion. This [...]