Hi, you’re back. That’s great. We always like it when our readers come back to see what’s going here at WebCare. Why not sign up for the RSS feed and you’ll get auto updates.If you have ever been frustrated by the fact that clicking on ‘larger image’ does not produce, in fact, a larger image, [...]

Tags: Images, Larger Image, Zen Cart

A large number of our Zen Cart clients have been reporting trouble with logging in to their zencart admin system. Admin log in is very slow or not working at all – so they cannot log in to Zen Cart. This login delay is caused because zencart , by default, checks for version updates while [...]

Tags: eCommerce, Zen Cart, zen cart admin, zen cart security, zencart

Are you frustrated by the lack of info you can get from your zen cart site abut the no of sales, the $ value of sales, the GST received and more? Do you manually count up your sales data or re-enter that data into different software? If so, then take a look at this plug [...]

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Are you wanting to take a well-deserved break over Christmas and New Year (or any other time of the year for that matter)?  What are you going to do with your ecommerce site?  You don’t want orders to be sitting around until you get back, and customers getting angry because they haven’t received their order [...]

Tags: eCommerce, Zen Cart

Zen Cart will automatically number the orders that you receive starting at…you guessed it, No 1!  Imagine placing an order for a widget, paying for it with your hard earneds, then getting an email with “Order Confirmation No: 1″  – would that scare you just a little bit? It certainly makes your new Zen Cart [...]

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Just heard about something extremely scary! If you already process credit cards online (ie your customer types their credit card no directly into your website) OR you are trying to decide what sort of credit card processing system to use online, then you REALLY NEED TO KNOW about this. There is now a $10,000 minimum [...]

Tags: eCommerce, Internet Marketing, Zen Cart

In our last blog posting on this topic, I wrote about some free software you can use to edit your images for web. In this article, I want to focus more on the practicalities of image size – why it is so important that your images are optimised, and what the real difference in image [...]

Tags: eCommerce, website maintenance, Zen Cart

When I am talking with clients about their shopping cart sites and uploading photos of their products, or teaching how to sell on eBay, I often get asked how to optimise photos for displaying on the web. For example, an average digital camera these days will take photos that are up to5MB (5000 KB) in [...]

Tags: website maintenance, Zen Cart

Almost any shopping cart or e-commerce website needs to be able to receive payments from customers. In my view, the more automated this method of payment is (ie the payment gets into your control, quickly, without you having to do anything!), the better. Unfortunately, automation (which saves you time and hassle and which will increase [...]

Tags: eCommerce, Zen Cart

When a person places a new order on your shopping cart site, the system automatically generates an email to the customer confirming their order. As part of the customisation of your new shopping cart , we will change the text of this email. Just send us through the changed text and we will modify it [...]

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