One of my North American clients required the ability to add their products to Shop To It. What is Shop To It ? Shop To It is pretty much a shopping comparison service used almost exclusively by Canadians. Vendors can…

Twitter Cards are a new(ish) service from Twitter. In a nutshell, they give far more info than the standard 140 characters, including image, product name and other information. This is going to be BIG for promoting your products on Twitter.…

My friend Scott over at That Software Guy is the go-to guy for discounting modules, and he has put together an Admin package for his "Better Together" system. Better Together offers the following discount possibilities: Two for one on product…

I've been thinking lately about EPOS system for stocktaking for this scenario; – offline retail shop in the high street – online shop The need is there to ensure that we don't oversell in the online shop. To this end,…

After much deliberation and asking many questions of my clients and potential clients, it's come as no surprise to me that there are a number of business owners who want a more dedicated service than the osCommerce forum can provide.…

Some time back I attempted to make the osCommerce native search function a little more useful by coming up with code to allow the search result to offer alternatives if the product being searched for cannot be found. My idea…

A bit of a conversation yesterday in the comments of my last post, which hopefully sparked something off in readers of the blog… As shopowners, we surely exist to sell products. Nothing more and nothing less. If that is the…

Todays project is a "to do" list of small changes on a clients site. These range from simple 2 minute things such as changing some language defines to larger modifications like adding (my version of) SEO Meta Tags / Description.…

Completed this past week a CSV (Comma Separated Values file) import facility which scans through a CSV line by line and updates the order_status_history to add the postage tracking number and sends an email to the buyer to let them…

One of my good clients contacted me to see about having coded a shipping module that; – available for DK clients only 1 – available only to certain postcodes within Denmark (those near the customers real shop, to be delivered…