Category Archives: X-Cart

Sage Pay Update – Important for X-Cart Stores 4.6.5 or Older

Due to Sage Pay releasing version 3 of their payment gateway protocol, they will be discontinuing support for earlier versions beginning July 31st, 2015. If you are using Sage Pay, this means your store will be unable to process payments without this upgrade. Read the full release from Sage Pay here.

Qualiteam has released a fix that “will likely work for 4.6.x, 4.5.2, 4.5.3, 4.5.4, and 4.5.5. It may work for earlier versions, but we didn’t test it.”

We wanted to notify our customers as to the change, so it does not catch anyone using Sage Pay off guard. As always, if you have any questions or support needs based around this change, please contact us.

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X-Cart 4 Support Packages

BCS Engineering will offer X-Cart 4 support  as long as we have customers interested in using it as a platform. Check out our X-Cart Support Packages. We have a few different options to meet a wide-range of support needs! Sign up for this great opportunity now!

Package Options

SILVER GOLD PLATINUM
Free X-cart Security Patching* √ √ √
Error Log Review* √ – 2x per year √ – Quarterly
Annual One Hour Phone Consult √ – 2x per year √ – Quarterly
Monitoring* √
Priority Support & Scheduling √
Break Fixes* $115/hour $105/hour $100/hour
Custom Work $115/hour $105/hour $100/hour
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) $150/hour $125/hour
Discounted Mod Purchases 10% discount 15% discount 20% discount
Mod installs 10% discount 15% discount 20% discount
Pricing* $35/month $85/month $175/month

*Please see our X-Cart 4 Support Page for specifics on these items.

Contact us for more information!

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X-cart Recurring Orders

We’re pretty proud of the x-cart recurring order feature that we added for our good customer Rogers Family Coffee & Tea Market. Allowing customers to set up a recurring order at a discounted price is the perfect solution for coffee and tea lovers that know they will need a fresh supply on a frequent basis. It’s a quick and easy service that benefits the customer and increases sales. This screenshot shows the placement of the recurring order feature in the shopping cart:

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This solution can be implemented for a wide variety of businesses and products! Amazon offers this service, why don’t you? Contact us today and let us help you implement this terrific service for your customers!

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Phasing Out of Amazon Webstore Platform

According to this article from Internet Retailer, Amazon has begun notifying customers of the phasing out of Amazon Webstore by 2016. From the launch announcement of Amazon Webstore, it is “a full-featured e-commerce product that enables small- to medium-sized retailers and manufacturers to quickly design, build and manage their multichannel e-commerce businesses using Amazon’s technology.” This follows the somewhat recent notification from Magento regarding the discontinuation of the MagentoGo platform.

Along these lines, if you are currently utilizing the Amazon Webstore as an e-commerce platform or if you had been planning to utilize the platform in the near future, there are other alternatives available. We support conversions to X-Cart, BigCommerce, and Magento. Contact us for a free quote on your e-commerce conversion needs!

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Google to Begin Considering Sites’ Mobile-Friendliness in Search Rankings

In a response to the current trends in e-commerce, Google is soon to begin weighing sites’ “mobile-friendliness” as part of its algorithm for search rankings. Google’s official release can be read here. With people spending an increasing amount of time on their mobile devices, as well as the increase in the number of people using mobile for shopping – particularly at top e-commerce retailers, this shift by Google is just a mirroring of these trends.

The official date for this shift in search-ranking algorithm to commence is April 21st. The delay in this is to allow sites to prepare for this change. Along these lines, if you currently do not have a mobile or responsive site and are looking to make these changes, contact us for a free quote to evaluate your project. If you are looking for a “quick fix”, our Mobile Mod for X-Cart can definitely help. Now is definitely the time to make this leap as opposed to waiting until after the change!

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What Color Is this Dress – The Importance of Quality Pictures on Your Website

So, it is likely that you have seen the following image making the rounds on the internet:

We discussed this briefly around the office and there were varying opinions. However, there is one thing that we took away as a lesson from all of this – the importance of quality pictures. If the lighting in your picture allows people to see your subject in different colors, then this is probably not an ideal picture. This can obviously be an issue for online retailers. As the only representation an online customer has of your product comes from whatever image is uploaded, it is crucial to get this right.

To this end, we would like to mention our Mobile Admin Module for X-Cart. Among other things, this module allows you to upload pictures from your phone or tablet for your X-Cart store. You will just want to make sure that your pictures are better than the one of the dress in this article.

If you are curious about the science behind why the dress is perceived in different colors, this Wired article helps explain the phenomenon.

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New Year’s Sale!

Happy New Year from the staff at BCSE!

To help celebrate the New Year, BCS Engineering is having a sale! Any BCSE Mods will be 25% off starting at 12:01am EST on January 1st, 2015. This sale will last only until January 11th at 11:59pm EST, so take advantage of this offer while it is available!

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End of Year Sale!

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Update on PayPal’s Discontinuation of Support for SSL v3.0

PayPal has released an update regarding their discontinuation of support for SSL v3.0 due to the POODLE vulnerability. They have found a short-term solution that will allow continued support of most of SSL 3.0 until 1/12/2015 at 12:01 PST. PayPal’s revised statement can be read in full here. However, versions that are vulnerable to POODLE will still be discontinued on 12/03/2014 (tomorrow). This grants a small reprieve for a certain number of people that would otherwise be affected tomorrow. For more information on this issue, please refer to our previous blog post.

As always, if you need support due to this issue, please contact us.

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