E-Commerce - Archive

  • Mass assigning images to products in Open Cart

    Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

    Whilst working on an e-commerce project for a client we found that we had to add the same 3 images to over 200 products. Now, compared the Zen Cart, the Open Cart admin dashboard is relatively easy on the eyes and intuitive, but it would still take a fair amount of time to manually assign the same 3 images to each product. I wrote some SQL statements to take care of the job in less than 5 minutes (although I did spend a long time trying to do the job in one statement, but was unable). So if you want [...]

  • Choosing a Merchant Account for e-commerce

    Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

    Choosing the right Merchant Account can make a big difference to your expenses when running an e-commerce store. Depending on the volume you do, PayPal and Google Checkout might work out quite expensive. With a good merchant account you usually have to pay a monthly fee, but this often gives you a few hundred that are free of any other cost! For example, your average sale is £100 and with PayPal you spend 3.4% (£3.40p) + 20p = £3.60p to process the transaction. Make 10 sales in a day and you’ve spent around £30 just on processing fees! Most merchant [...]

  • UK Zen Cart Hosting

    Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

    Zen Cart is by far our favourite e-commerce tool, and we’ve used it for a lot of our projects. We’ve just updated our UK Zen Cart Hosting page with more details so you can find out what Zen Cart offers and why you should use it as your e-commerce solution when starting your own online store. Zen Cart is a powerful, fully featured e-commerce system with all the features you’d need to run a professional online store. So, whether you’re an individual, or a brick and mortar business or corporation looking to start selling online, Zen Cart is the way! [...]

  • Do you need e-commerce web hosting with paypal?

    Monday, December 27th, 2010

    You’ve got a great product or service and you’ve just set up your paypal account, but what next? There are so many paths you could walk down next, and similarly so much information to confuse you on the way. So here’s our guide to E-Commerce: what you should do next to start selling online with paypal. First things first, you’re going to need a website. Depending on your product or service, it doesn’t have to be a full blown e-commerce solution. At RX Host, we have two favourite methods of getting started quickly and easily. 1) Make a simple website [...]

  • Online Fashion Store – Bibie Fashions

    Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

    We just recently completed an e-commerce store for Bibie Fashions. We worked tirelessy to ensure the user experience from front to back was simple, sleek and elegant. Much like the clothes being sold on the site. Bibie Fashions stock an amazing variety of clothes, shoes and accessories for Men, Women and Children from some of the biggest brand names, including: Cavalli, Versace, Energie, Gant, Maruti, Moschino, Miss Sixty, Phard, Colcci and many more! The best part of it all is Bibie Fashions are giving a 10% discount to all new customers until the end of the year. Please do click [...]

 

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Improve your bounce rate using wordpress plugins

May 2, 2011

Creating content, and driving traffic to your site or blog takes a lot of time and dedication, but what can you do to improve your bounce rate? Bounce Rate – what is it? Your bounce rate represents the number of users that visit your site and then quickly leave, without clicking through to any other pages. How can you improve your bounce rate? The easiest thing to do is give your visitors something else to do on your page. For example, if you’re running a blog with WordPress, you can simple install a Related Posts plugin (we use the Yet [...]

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