Have you ever considered how safe your Online Payments account is?
I’m not talking about the vagaries of Buyer and Seller “Protection” policies issued by the payment companies, but rather about the simplest and most basic requirement – keeping out unauthorised users.
It’s something that’s been on my mind a fair bit this year, particularly with the [...]

The late summer change announcements for the North American eBay sites are radically different to those with major effects in Europe.

The NAFTA-zone sites are keeping traditional eBay Stores and SIF format, but adding new listing durations and fee structures for the existing Fixed Price/BIN format in core.

Specifically this means that they will retain the ultra-cheap, but restricted visibility, store listing option, and sellers using it will still need listings in Auction and BIN format to drive buyers to their shop inventory. The BIN format listings also get a single unified insertion fee, which remains the same regardless of unit price or quantity in the listing, and also get several eBay-authorised methods to manipulate Best Match search ranking for their listings. The primary kick-in-the-nuts for sellers comes with the new “electronic payments” only policy, that has potential to slide-in a PayPal-only North America via the back door.

eBay UK announced yesterday that they will be “launching a new streamlined Checkout flow, which is designed to simplify and improve the buying process.”
That’s great news – anything that improves the buyer experience and results in less mistakes (by the buyer) during checkout in regard to selecting the correct shipping, insurance and so on, will [...]

 osCommerce is a popular Open Source ecommerce catalog and shopping cart system.  It has almost 200,000 registered users in its support forums, and a healthy community of developers providing extensions and modifications for it.  At least a quarter of a million online stores have implemented it, and the number grows everyday.
In the osCommerce support forums, [...]