Wheaton Website Services has acquired Architect Marketing Solutions Wheaton Website Services has acquired Architect Marketing Solutions (https://www.architectmarketingsolutions.com/) as part of our ongoing goal to help our clients be successful. Wheaton Website Services was founded with the goal of helping e-commerce businesses be successful. Our history goes back to selling invitations and photo gifts online
Zen Cart 1.5.6 Released The Zen Cart development team has released version 1.5.6 The most notable improvements and bugfixes in v1.5.6 since v1.5.5 include: Core - Updated dozens of files for compatibility with PHP 7.2 and also 7.3 Admin - Sales-Report graphs on Admin dashboard Checkout - customer confirmation emails now include customer
The Zen Cart development team has released version 1.5.5f Zen Cart 1.5.5f Released, what's different? - Checkout - As a help to people getting PayPal TLS notifications, the CURL Testing tool now reports compatibility with tlstest.paypal.com. - Checkout - Square Payments support is now built-in. Start taking credit card payments in just 5 minutes! See
Beginning in October 2017, Google's Chrome will display a "NOT SECURE” warning when users enter a page on your site that has a form. This is just another move by Google to encourage website owners to use https site-wide. They already give a boost to site rankings for https pages. The Chrome browser controls 59%
As your business grows, your needs change. You'll find you need to integrate and automate processes. One of those processes might require data import or export. Data Import The import and export of data is the automated or semi-automated input and output of data sets between different software applications. Over the years, we have set-up
The Zen Cart development team has released version 1.5.5e Changes in Zen Cart 1.5.5e include: Upgrade PHPMailer from 5.2.21 to 5.2.22 Update gmail support to use TLS per published standards Fix bug introduced in v1.5.5c related to deleting customers Add built-in support for new .htaccess rules required for Apache 2.4, so mod_compat doesn't need to be
The Zen Cart team has released a new version of Zen Cart, version 1.5.5d. This new version includes all the bug fixes and patches since the first version in the 1.5.5 series was released in March of 2016. Many of the highlights are listed below, but this is not a complete list. Our recommendation is
A new One Page Checkout for Zen Cart makes checkout faster. Website businesses are always looking to make things easier for our visitors. That is most true during the checkout process. Once a visitor has found something they want to purchase, the checkout should be as quick and painless as possible. Reducing clutter and distractions,
A popular way to increase both revenue and average order value is to offer up-sells and cross-sells in Zen Cart. What is an up-sell or a cross-sell? Up-sell: is a sales technique whereby a seller induces the customer to purchase more expensive items, upgrades or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale.
I'm happy to announce that we are now offering a free SSL when hosting with Wheaton Website Services. Encryption with an SSL is quickly becoming the norm. Why? Google gives higher rankings for SSL pages. An SSL is required for e-commerce sites. They give enhanced customer confidence. Browsers will soon warn about any site without
