) October 6, 2009 -- As the remaining Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) deadlines approach, e-commerce merchants must quickly determine how to bring their checkout process into alignment with the new required standards for protecting sensitive cardholder data. To ease the burden, CRE Secure Payments, LLC has unveiled a Hosted Payment Page technology aimed at reducing the scope and cost of PCI Compliance for e-commerce merchants by moving the storage, processing and transmittal of payment information from the merchant's environment to a PCI-Compliant data center without interrupting checkout flow.

) December 15, 2008 -- Nodus Technologies, Inc. (www.nodus.com), a leading electronic payment solution provider is pleased to announce the completion of VISA PABP 2008 certification for their Credit Card Advantage product line, the leading integrated credit card payment application software platform in Microsoft Dynamics GP market.

) October 6, 2008 -- AspDotNetStorefront, and online commerce, continues to experience unprecedented growth, even in a tough economic time, as new merchants are signing up in record numbers. Existing merchant base also demonstrates continued investment in their e-business platforms leveraging our maintenance and product release updates. This continues to confirm that merchants are turning even more to online sales channels to grow their businesses in this tough economic time.

) June 25, 2009 -- Element Payment Services announces the launch of the PCI Compliance Quiz Widget, created to help widen the knowledge base of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance.

The PCI compliance standards were developed by the major payment card brands, under the umbrella of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, in response to a recent growth in data security breaches. They apply to all businesses that handle payment cards.

) August 4, 2009 -- CRE Secure, the first cloud-based security payment system that is fully compliant with new credit card security rules, announces today that it has expanded its PCI compliant credit card processing security service with a new integrated connection to Authorize.net, the most popular payment gateway in North America. Online retailers and web based applications who take credit and debit cards using Authorize.net as their payment gateway can now sign up for CRE Secure PCI Security and still keep their existing connection to Authorize.net and their existing merchant banking relationships.

) September 18, 2009 -- As a premier provider of the Miva Merchant Hosting online shopping cart program, WebNet Hosting is equipped to provide all online merchants with exactly what they need in order to be fully PCI and PA-DSS compliant. To be fully compliant with the PA-DSS is extremely important because those that are found to be non-compliant can be leveraged with serious fines ranging from $5,000 to as much as $100,000 per month.

) December 3, 2008 -- OrderDynamics Corporation, Canada's leading on-demand eCommerce solution provider, is pleased to announce its partnership with CardinalCommerce, the worldwide leading enabler of payment brands. The partnership will leverage CardinalCommerce's universal merchant platform, Cardinal Centinel®, to enable multiple payment brands for the Order Dynamics customer base.

) April 6, 2009 -- eCC, an ecommerce integration application developed by Webgility has received QuickBooks Silver Certificate after passing rigorous technical review to ensure seamless integration with QuickBooks. In a few simple mouse clicks, eCC downloads online orders into QuickBooks, synchronizes inventory and customers. Using eCC, businesses running an online store can eliminate manual data entry, save time and reduce accounting errors with QuickBooks.

QuickBooks Integration for eCommerce

) March 13, 2009 -- AspDotNetStorefront announces support for the Rackspace® Mosso cloud hosting environment in its latest AspDotNetStorefront ML e-commerce shopping cart software platforms.

) March 11, 2009 -- AspDotNetStorefront expands its e-commerce shopping cart product offerings with the new and exciting AspDotNetStorefront ML/Express platform, servicing the rapidly growing small business e-commerce market. ML/Express expands our reach even further into the still rapidly growing small business e-commerce market; e-commerce is still showing strong growth even in a tough economy.

Zen Cart is a popular open-source PHP/MySQL-based e-commerce solution available under GPL that is designed to put the merchants' and shoppers' requirements first. Not only does Zen Cart offer a very long list of features, but the system is designed with both store owners and web developers in mind. There's no sacrifice of usability or power.
Through this book, users will learn to use the promotion and public-relations tools of Zen Cart to attract customers to the shop. Users will also be able to customize the look and feel of their Zen Cart store by localizing and customizing templates.

) January 13, 2009 -- Cred-Ex (www.Cred-Ex.com) prepares to launch its new alternative payment solution. Cred-Ex helps combat identity theft through its patented process.

) June 1, 2009 -- Assessors certified by the Payment Card Industry (PCI), a coalition of the world's leading credit card companies, have validated that the CRE Loaded ecommerce system is compliant with the newest data security standards.

These standards were enacted in response to the growing number of expensive data breaches. Starting Oct. 1, online retailers will no longer be allowed to host credit card transactions in non PCI-approved environments. Stores that aren't compliant can be fined, have their transaction fees raised, or even have their merchant accounts frozen.

) January 13, 2009 -- CRE Loaded, a leading open source eCommerce shopping cart software that powers nearly 200,000 online stores worldwide, announced today its partnership with ControlScan, a leading provider of PCI compliance and security solutions, focused exclusively on small- to medium-sized merchants.

NetQwik's easy to use ecommerce shopping cart solution now integrates with Quickbooks financial software.

) December 18, 2008 - Element Payment Services™, Inc. (Element) announced today that Marathon Data Systems has adopted Hosted Payments, the first payment processing solution to take software providers out-of-scope for PA-DSS (PABP) compliance requirements.

) June 22, 2009 -- PayLeap is proud to announce its partnership with Interspire, a leading provider of ecommerce software with North American headquarters in Austin, Texas and offices in Sydney, Australia and London, England. Interspire has achieved a Preferred Reseller Status with PayLeap, offering the PayLeap solution to clients across the U.S. and world.

) June 25, 2009 -- Merchant Data Systems (merchantdatasystems.com), a full service payment processing company, has joined forces with ControlScan (controlscan.com), a leading provider of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and security solutions exclusively focused on small- to medium-sized merchants, to help its merchants meet mandatory requirements set forth by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC).

PCI Compliance Solutions Provider, ControlScan

) January 29, 2009 -- SoftSlate, LLC is pleased to release version 3.0 of SoftSlate Commerce, a powerful and highly flexible shopping cart program written purely in Java and JSP. The focus of this major upgrade has been on revamping the application's web-based administration, with non-technical users in mind. Now, managing an online store's products, customers and orders with SoftSlate Commerce is easy than ever. Along the way, SoftSlate has added a number of other new features as well.

) January 14, 2009 -- AspDotNetStorefront™ announces competitive upgrade pricing and data migration wizard from the LaGarde® storefront.net® ecommerce platform to the AspDotNetStorefront ML v8.0 e-commerce shopping cart platform, now used by nearly 10,000 customers and over 6,000 developers.

YourEcommerce has a service for small to medium businesses that want to open an online store without spending the time or money to build their own ecommerce website. Useful and inexpensive, the software has all the features a merchant needs to do business on the internet.
Merchants basically pick a website template, upload their products, and go [sell online], says Quan Nguyen, CEO of YourEcommerce.com.
Merchants can try the service free for 2 weeks before signing up. There is no risk of hiring a web designer and waiting months to have a website built. Merchants log into the web based control panel and customize and preview their website before they decide to sign up. YourEcommerce works with thousands of pre-built website templates that merchants can choose from.

Quick Shopping Cart®, the online store utility, now interacts with QuickBooks® financial software. This technology allows business owners to save valuable time and more effectively manage their Web store by synchronizing critical business data between their store and QuickBooks. (PRWeb Feb 25, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2167684.htm

) March 12, 2009 -- Early Impact today announced the recent release of its new ProductCart Synchronizer for Use with QuickBooks®. The new software allows Web stores powered by Early Impact's powerful ProductCart shopping cart software to seamlessly and automatically exchange information such as inventory levels, orders, and customers with their QuickBooks company file.

ProductCart Synchronizer for use with QuickBooks

) February 25, 2010 -- Nexternal Solutions, a leader in ecommerce shopping cart software, is excited to announce the release of a new feature which provides a powerful integration with two major social networking sites; Facebook and Twitter. This new update gives online merchants the ability to allow their customers to post recent purchases on Facebook and Twitter during the checkout process.

Sample Tweet

) February 20, 2009 -- Cart Hero introduces the Weosk which is a one page ecommerce site with the checkout on the same page as the products.

A Weosk is like an online kiosk. It gives the customer a quick and easy way to buy top selling items. No lost customers to shopping cart abandonment or technical errors. One form, one button and the purchase is made.

http://www.CartHero.com

"Back in 2002 I had an ecommerce site that had a typical shopping cart and we decided to re-engineer it to have a single page checkout. Sales increased by 32% overnight from that one effort. Nothing had ever had that type of impact." Bill Broadbent

Web design in UK and e-commerce for small business is in high demand as online sales continue to command an increasing share of total sales made by businesses in UK. Whilst there is no shortage of web design businesses and ecommerce companies offering solutions to small businesses in UK, Quality web design and e-commerce services at an affordable price are either hard to find or too expensive and far exceed the budgeted expenditure of smaller businesses. Outsourcing web design and e-commerce development to offshore companies may seem viable and cost effective. However they often lead to long term problems as it is difficult to get support and timely response.

) June 23, 2009 -- Avangate, full service provider of electronic software distribution and reseller management solutions for software vendors, today announced to have obtained for its services the Level 1 PCI DSS certification (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), the most important security standard for the card payment industry. The PCI DSS includes a set of comprehensive requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures.

) October 22, 2009 -- "Market" is a revolutionary new theme that transforms any standard Wordpress installation into a fully functional e-commerce store, featuring its own built-in shopping cart system and product management administration abilities.

Market Theme - Ecommerce Shopping Cart for Wordpress

) July 15, 2009 -- T-Gate LLC, a pioneering provider of PCI PA-DSS secure payment platforms announces the launch of PayLink. PayLink is an industry first single web interface for all processing needs, PayLink offers a secure, smooth integration between the POS and T-Gate's PCI compliant universal payment gateway. PayLink removes the transaction from the POS ensuring the most secure transaction processing available.

) November 11, 2008 -- IP Commerce, Inc. and PaySimple today jointly announce the launch of Commerce Enrollment™, an automated online merchant account application. IP Commerce and PaySimple co-developed the online merchant application, and PaySimple completed its beta launch, finding that the process to qualify and approve its merchants for a merchant account was much more efficient than legacy processes. In addition, PaySimple found the application improved overall customer experience.

) September 8, 2009 -- Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, today announced the release of a free payment module extension for the eCommerce platform Magento, a Varien company. Developed as an Open Source solution for the eCommerce marketplace, Magento is easy to use and simple to customize, allowing developers to create plug-ins and extensions to expand the platform`s capabilities for online merchants.

) August 18, 2009 -- First American Payment Systems, L.P. ("First American"), one of the fastest growing electronic payments processors in the U.S., has partnered with Trustwave to create a program called PCI Smart in order to help merchants achieve and maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world.

) November 12, 2008 -- AspDotNetStorefront is proud to announce the latest release of its flagship AspDotNetStorefront ML e-commerce shopping cart platform. In the latest ML v8.0 release significant enhancements have been introduced in the platform to increase conversion rates, maximize performance, and reduce administrative overhead to put merchants in the best possible position to maximize profits and grow their online e-commerce sales in a slowing global economy.

) June 1, 2009 -- WarrantyFeed, LLC (http://www.WarrantyFeed.com), the web's automated warranty solution for e-commerce merchants, today announced the release of modules for open source shopping carts AgoraCart, osCommerce, Cube Cart, VirtueMart and ZenCart with an end-to-end warranty solution.

Until now, merchants' were required to have expensive custom programming scripts written in order to offer warranty's with their products. WarrantyFeed's "all in one solution" instantly adds warranties to the merchants' web store and handles all of the administration before, during and after the sales cycle.

) June 4, 2009 -- Why a merchant may need an offshore merchant account - Merchants, especially those that transact business internationally may find it beneficial to use an offshore or non-domestic bank to process their credit card transactions. This can benefit the merchant because many non-domestic banks have a lot of experience in multi-currency transaction processing and have high volume merchant account processing capabilities.

) February 5, 2009 -- DS Data Systems UK Ltd. is pleased to announce the release of KonaKart v3.2.0.0, a java-based eCommerce shopping cart application that provides an extensive set of features to enable retailers to successfully sell their products over the internet.

KonaKart is a Java / JSP / XML based solution with easy to use java APIs and a SOAP Web Service interface that allow you to quickly integrate eCommerce functionality into your existing systems. The customizable parts of KonaKart are Open Source and available under the GNU LGPL.

The Merchant Solutions is a leading credit card processing and merchant services provider company. As a provider of an extensive range of payment processing services, the company establishes The Merchant Bills of Rights to help the small and mid-sized business owners to manage fairly the cost and complexity of debit and credit card processing practices. Well-planned as an industry standard, the Merchant Bill of Rights provides clear and simple presentation of processing cost of debit cards and credit cards.
The Merchant Bill of Rights provides following rights to debit and credit card holders.
The right to know exactly who is charging fee for every card payment transaction
The right to know the fee markups
The right to know the fee reductions

) June 16, 2009 -- Aplus.net, a leading Web hosting company and Internet solutions provider, announces Pinnacle Shopping Cart a marketing focused and fully customizable merchant tool designed to maximize online store sales. With its broad range of product merchandising, CRM, SEO features and multiple payment options, the new cart offers a timely alternative for businesses of all sizes and supports unlimited products. This affordable eCommerce application is easy to set up and designed to make the entire shopping/purchasing process easier and more secure for site visitors.

) November 19, 2008 -- Early Impact today announced the general availability for version 3.5 of its ProductCart shopping cart software, which now features more advanced search and navigation tools, and support for Microsoft Live Search cashback.

ProductCart

The latest version of ProductCart is focused on making the storefront easier and faster for customers to search and browse. Advanced features typically found only on large e-commerce stores such as "drill-down navigation" can now be turned on in just a few clicks thanks to new, smart store management tools.

) April 30, 2009 -- iVeri Payment Technologies (pronounced "ivory"), a leading provider of multi-channel e-payment solutions, has licensed its Payment Gateway and MiCard™ e-payment processing solution to Dashen Bank SC, a private commercial bank in Ethiopia. iVeri's Payment Gateway will help Dashen Bank to become the first bank in Ethiopia to acquire mCommerce, eCommerce and Mobile merchant transactions. The bank has also chosen iVeri's MiCard™ software which for the first time will enable Dashen Bank account holders to interact with the bank via SMS.