Our software designers have been hard at work improving Quick Shopping Cart. Check out these great new additions:

• More designs to choose from. We’ve included 60 additional design templates that coordinate with WebSite Tonight® (for a total of 105). Now you can make your shopping cart and Web site look like one site. Why not try out a new look – your entire site will be instantly updated.
• Media Gallery. In response to customer requests, we’ve made it possible for you to display up to 5 images for each product, giving shoppers a variety of product views. (Deluxe and Premium plans only.)
• PayPal Express Checkout. This service makes paying with PayPal a seamless experience. Shoppers don’t even know they’ve left your site to pay for their purchase. To add this to your site, simply pull down the “Processing” menu in Quick Shopping Cart and click “Payments.”

With the widespread usage of WordPress as both a blogging platform and a CMS, you would think there would be a wide variety of e-commerce shopping cart plugins available. Unfortunately, there are few e-commerce solutions that meet the needs of internet shopkeepers, with the exception of Wp-ecommerce and The Market Theme. A few others exist, including Shopp, but we have not tested their Beta.

Wp-ecommerce is one of the most widely known solutions, and though known as “buggy,” the latest releases appear to function better than previous versions. WP eCommerce is easily installed and integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express and many other trusted payment processors.

Plus: Free Version, Multiple Features.
Minus: We’ve found that running other scripts within your theme may break the functionality of the cart or theme. However, the latest release seems to have alleviated that particular issue.
Big Plus: Wp-ecommerce themes are available to make building your site easier! iThemes has developed one such theme.

Ecommerce Theme for Wordpress

Wordpress ecommerce shopping cart theme.

Crafty Cart

A free WordPress Shopping Cart Theme

Crafty Cart by Billion Studio is a free WordPress theme using Instinct’s plugin.
Price: FREE

The Market Theme

The Market Theme

Another solution is The Market Theme. Market Theme is an e-commerce WordPress THEME – not just a cart. The Market Theme is a fully featured WordPress theme which transforms a standard installation of WordPress into an customizable e-commerce storefront using an AJAX shopping cart.

Plus: Economical, Customizable, Easy, a WordPress Theme in itself
Minus: If you already have a theme you don’t want to give up, you will have to do some coding or pay a programmer. Learn More about The Market Theme
Price: $55.00

You’ve already told us your favorite Quick Shopping Cart features. But we’ve recently updated the layout to make those features easier to use and more accessible than ever before.

• The Wizard Builder is now the “Basic” view. Simply click “Basic” to get started.
• We’ve moved the Preview link from the header and made it a button in the top menu bar.
• We’ve changed the Publish link to a button in the top menu bar, so you can publish in both the Basic and Advanced views.
• The Home page link has been moved from the header to the top menu bar.
• Your shopping cart site domain (URL) and IP address have been moved into the Summary Information section on the Advanced view Home page.

PLUS, we’ve made it even easier to manage your site-building applications; you can now log in and manage Quick Shopping Cart®, Quick Blogcast and WebSite Tonight® all from one common dashboard. Check it out today!

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• Time-stamping service provided, allowing distribution of signed code beyond certificate expiration
• Protects your intellectual property by warding off impersonation and tampering

Our NEW Code Signing Certificate allows authors to “sign” their code, reassuring users that it’s the real thing and is safe to download or install. If the original code has been altered, users will be warned that the content is not to be trusted. Our NEW Code Signing Certificates are fully integrated with industry-standard technology, support Microsoft(R) Authenticode and Java and work with software applications, Active X controls, .DLLs, .CABs, HTML content, even Microsoft(R) Office documents with macros.

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• Increase sales! According to Visa International, of every $100.00 spent by consumers, nearly $40.00 is in a form other than cash or check. Plus, the average credit card purchase is considerably larger than cash. A Merchant Account is the quick, easy way for these customers to pay.
• Get paid, fast! Make the move to credit card transactions and start receiving payment within 24-72 hours. And we’ll approve your U.S.-based application within a day.
• Increase credibility! A merchant account means you’ve passed the approval process necessary to accept credit cards. Give your customers confidence – accept credit cards!
• Cut paperwork! Why spend your valuable time processing checks? Instead, have proceeds from all your business’ transactions deposited directly into your banking account.
• Reduce risk! Automate your transactions and take any hassle out of your sales. Visitors to your site want the convenience, flexibility and security that credit cards offer. They want to spend!

Plus, we’ve added professionally designed templates in 45 of our most popular WebSite Tonight® themes. Quick Shopping Cart just keeps getting better and better, thanks in part to your ideas.

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But hurry, this sale ends February 29, 2008 at midnight (PT).

A Starfield Technologies SSL Certificate secures safe, easy and convenient Internet shopping. Once an Internet user enters a secure area — by entering credit card information, e-mail address or other personal data, for example — the shopping site’s SSL certificate enables the browser and Web server to build a secure, encrypted connection. The SSL “handshake” process, which establishes the secure session, takes place discreetly behind the scenes, ensuring an uninterrupted shopping experience for the consumer. A “padlock” icon in the browser’s status bar and the “https://” prefix in the URL are the only visible indications of a secure session in progress. By contrast, if a user attempts to submit personal information to an unsecured Web site (i.e., a site that is not protected with a valid SSL certificate), the browser’s built-in security mechanism will trigger a warning to the user, reminding him/her that the site is not secure and that sensitive data might be intercepted by third parties. Faced with such a warning, most Internet users likely will look elsewhere to make a purchase.

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• Agree to the conditions and import a new list.
• New subscribers are added as “Unverified.”
• Send a campaign to the new list. Mail sent to “Unverified” subscribers will be delivered in batches over a 48-hour period. If you receive an excessive amount of bounces, we suspend delivery.
• When the recipients open their email, status will be set to “Active” and bounce rules will no longer apply.
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• From the Add-Ons menu select Quick Shopping Cart.
• In the Choose Quick Shopping Cart Account list, select the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to associate with your WebSite Tonight® account.
• In the Navigation button title to display on home page of Web site field, enter the text you want to display on the navigation button that points to your Quick Shopping Cart site. ‘Online Store’ displays as the default. If you want to change the text, you can highlight and delete the existing text, then add your own.
• Click OK.

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In most cases, the only un-secure item is an image you’ve added to the page… but your customers don’t know that. Here’s how to avoid that message and keep customers from running scared:

When linking to a photo/image contained in your Online Photo Filer account, you now have the option to also grab a secure (SSL) link to that image. It’s the perfect solution when you need to host an image (such as a PayPal logo) somewhere in your checkout process. Do this and all the content will display as secure… and your customers will continue and complete the checkout process.