Category: Jim’s eCommerce Connection
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: [...]
