Due to the large number of last minute entries, we’re going to need a few more days to prepare for the contest. We should be starting the voting on Wednesday, Oct 17. Thanks for all the great ideas! We’re excited to see who wins!
Category Archives: X-Cart
BCSE will be celebrating our 10th anniversary in November and would like to celebrate with our loyal customers!
We are asking our customers to submit new module ideas to us. We will then ask our customers to vote on which mod they would most like to see developed.
The customer with the winning idea will receive the mod for free! 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive their choice of 25% off the winning mod or 150 reward points added to their accounts.
Contest Rules
* Submit your mod idea via our support system no later than October 10th.
* Please be as specific as possible. The more information and detail you provide the better your chance of winning.
* This is your chance to pick something from your “ecommerce wish list”
* Beginning October 15th, visit www.bcsengineering.com to vote for your favorite mod idea.
* Deadline to vote is November 9th.
* Winner will be announced November 13th!
Offer Gift Cards! When gift cards are used, normally more is spent than the amount on the gift card. It also helps spread the word about your business and can generate new customers!
Our customer, Dalidecals.com offers many color options for their custom wall decals and wanted a better way to showcase the options available. We integrated Adobe Scene 7 into their shopping cart allowing a customer to select a color option and instantly view the options on the sample pictures provided. No refreshing necessary! Not only can the customer configure the decal colors but also the room color!
This color configurator provides almost 100 Million variations just for this one design! If you’d like us to quote something like this for your site, please contact us.
We have many clients that depend on Google Shopping (formerly known as Froogle). We have been helping clients since the early days of Froogle connect their X-cart sites to Google Shopping. We learned today from several articles that Google plans to have a pay-to-play model in by Fall 2012. While we can see that this could potentially help keep their results cleaner and more relevant, however we are concerned for the small businesses that may not have a budget for this.
Read more at the Google Shopping becomes pay-to-play article on searchengineland.com
All X-Cart customers should have received a security patch update today, 4/11/2012 from Qualiteam that affects all 4.1.x through 4.4.x X-carts. While X-Cart has categorized this as a “minor” threat, we feel that there is potential for a larger threat if this patch is not applied. If you are a BCSE hosted customer we will automatically apply this patch. If you are not a hosted customer and are not able to apply your patch, please contact us and we will help you. Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.
Many X-cart sites that have been around a while start to get slower and slower. This is especially true if you have the Advanced Statistics module on. This module is required to be on for the bestsellers module to work. The good news is, there’s usually a really easy quick fix for speeding up your X-cart site! We have a free module that you can upload and either run manually or set it up as a cron (ask your host how to do this if you don’t know how). We’ve been using this free module for years for all of our hosted customers that need extra speed. Check out our FREE Clean Stats mod for X-cart!
The module simply cleans out the xcart_stats tables that you don’t need for bestsellers to work. Many people do not use the data in these because they have better analytics when using Google Analytics or something similar. For larger or order sites, these tables just keep getting bigger and bigger, eventually getting millions of rows of data in them. When a user browses the site, a new row is entered. In simple terms, if you have too many rows then this will slow down the site to insert a new row.
Some sites need more work to speed them up than this but many times this is all that is needed! Contact Us if you need more X-cart Speed help!
We just released today an update to our ever popular Point of Sale system. The Authorize.net DPM solution is now available in the Point of Sale system if you have the DPM module installed!
If you already have the Point of Sale system and would like to update your software to include the DPM support, drop us an email and we’ll see if you qualify for a free upgrade.
The Authorize.net DPM module is a very popular payment gateway choice that runs on top of your existing Authorize.net AIM solution. It helps get you closer to PCI compliance than using regular Authorize.net. It has been the choice of many X-cart clients with the new PCI standards that came out in July of 2010.
On Jan 25th, X-cart released the latest version of the 4.4.x branch. 4.4.5 is now available for download. If you downloaded it prior to January 30th, you will want to re-download it as they found a bug and updated the version with the fix for it. You can view more details and a change log on this X-cart Forum thread.
Many clients are taking advantage of the latest release and are upgrading their old X-cart stores. Feel free to use our Free Quote form to send us an upgrade request. We’ve been performing X-cart upgrades since 2004 and have upgraded from simple to very complex and very customized X-cart sites.
Ring in the New Year with $20 off of our Authorize.net DPM module!! Utilize our Authorize.net DPM module with your AIM account to support you to be PCI Compliant including the new PA/DSS standard! Our Holiday present to you $20 off of our Authorize.net DPM module!! Hurry! Sale ends January 16th!
