ProStores is an eBay supported e-commerce service that aims to help small, medium and big businesses who are looking to expand their online presence by reaching new customers. It offers a rich collection of features for website design and online marketing. Like any other ecommerce solution, there are pros and cons of using ProStores too. [...]

Magento Go is designed specifically for small & emerging businesses, and helps them build a stylish and powerful store to sell goods and services easily online. It offers the same robustness and versatility of the Magento platform. The best part of Magento Go is that, it does not require any technical knowledge to create a [...]

During this year’s November holiday season that officially begins on Thanksgiving, an unprecedented 15 percent of consumers in the United States logging onto a retailer’s website are expected to do so through a mobile device, according to IBM. Based on compiled numbers from the IBM Coremetrics Benchmark, all online holiday shopping in November is also [...]

For most of us buying stuff online, be it groceries, galoshes or gadgets, is easy peasy. We are veterans of browsing catalogues, clicking buy buttons and typing in credit card numbers. But the same is not true of many of the companies running the sites we use. For them e-commerce is not a settled science. [...]

According to BigCommerce co-founder, Eddie Machaalani, the release of the RESTful API is another big step towards the Australian company creating the “world’s first true e-commerce platform.” The API allows third party developers complete access to the BigCommerce platform by making orders, products, customers and photos available for both retrieving and updating programmatically, and Machaalani [...]

PayPal, eBay’s online payment service, plans to announce a new service Wednesday that aims to make it easier to shop online by cutting down on the number of accounts consumers have to create with various Web retailers. Called PayPal Access, the service will be unveiled at eBay’s X.commerce developer conference in San Francisco. It will [...]

SocialShop 2 looks set to make the transition to f-commerce seamless for retailers. Another f-commerce solution has entered the market in an attempt to help retailers turn their Facebook pages into online stores. BigCommerce is today releasing Social Shop 2, which will allow Facebook fans to browse products, fill their cart, purchase, manage orders, redeem gift [...]

EBay Inc. is building a new division to woo developers and attract more merchants as the company tries to emulate the success of Apple Inc.’s iOS platform in the e-commerce world. EBay’s main business is still its giant online marketplaces, which bring shoppers and sellers together. The company’s other big division is the payment business [...]

Choosing a platform on which to build your business is by no means an easy task. One must as itself, how much money, personal time and effort is he willing to put into it. There are numerous free and open source solutions that promise an easy ride. Since I’m in business of PHP development, here [...]

BigCommerce, a company that provides e-commerce software to online retailers and merchants, has raised $15 Million in Series A funding from General Catalyst Partners. Launched in 2009, BigCommerce provides a comprehensive SaaS for retailers and merchants to manage e-commerce online. BigCommerce helps small businesses power anything and everything related to an online storefront from search [...]