Category: Jim’s eCommerce Connection
Shopping for a QuickBooks Shopping Cart?
When I talk with new or potential customers, the question I get asked most is “What shopping cart should I use?” My answer is usually “It depends”. Generally I try to remain unbiased as I work with lots of different ecommerce products and try to remain “product agnostic”. In a previous article, I covered what [...]
Is Your Business “Open for Business”?
Intuit doesn’t provide eCommerce features in QuickBooks or QuickBooks Online, but there are many good products on the market that you might not know about. I want to take the next few articles to delve into some of the apps that I use and recommend to our eCommerce clients, and this week I’ll start with [...]
Handling eCommerce Marketplace Payments and Fees in QuickBooks
One of the most tedious tasks when dealing with an eCommerce marketplace is dealing with the fees that come with every transaction. Every sale is generating income for you, but also generating a transaction fee expense. How do you handle this with QuickBooks? Let’s take a look. For starters, a marketplace is defined as a [...]
Finding the Best All Purpose QuickBooks Ecommerce Vendors
In past articles, we have talked about shopping carts, merchant services and other various components of ecommerce. In looking at all the pieces, wouldn’t it be nice if there were one vendor that you could deal with that could put all of the pieces together and be able to handle multiple shopping carts and marketplaces [...]
Get Off of My Cloud
If there is one term that is overused these days, it has to be “the cloud”. You can’t have a conversation with anyone without the subject coming up. In fact, it has gotten to the point where it has become so over-used, I am not sure what it even means anymore. I just got back [...]
In Search of the Perfect QuickBooks Shopping Cart Integration
In my previous blog article Ecommerce, Shopping Carts and QuickBooks I talked about how to choose a shopping cart. Now let’s take a deeper dive into some of the areas that should be considered before choosing a shopping cart or a software program that integrates a shopping cart with a back end accounting system. As [...]
What the Heck is EDI and Why Should I Care?
One of the backbones of eCommerce is EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), a standard method of exchanging files that has been around since the 1980’s. EDI is used in some degree in almost every industry. Over the years, it has become widely adopted throughout the retail, manufacturing, transportation and health care industries for exchanging data between [...]
Merchant Services-Intuit and Beyond
Is it just me, or is merchant account processing way more complicated than it needs to be? Take for example, Intuit Merchant Services. If you look on their website at http://payments.intuit.com, you will see the following account options: Intuit Online Terminal Intuit Go Payment Intuit Merchant Service for QuickBooks Intuit Merchant Service for Web Stores [...]
eCommerce, Shopping Carts and QuickBooks
Technology has changed the way we shop and it continues to evolve at a dizzying pace. In my last article, I talked about eCommerce and all of the various components. This time around, I will take a look at the first point of contact in the online purchasing process: the shopping cart. Shopping cart software can be [...]
eCommerce Ecosystems Economics Theory (or EcoEcoEco 101)
eCommerce is one of those buzzwords that, unless you were under a rock for the last 20 years, you’ve no doubt heard and probably not thought twice about. But what is it? Is it a website, a shopping cart, or something else? And what’s up with the “e”? In this article, we will attempt to: [...]
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