ShopSite’s New Recurring Payments Feature

November 22, 2009

If you sell products or services with a recurring payment (e.g. subscriptions, recurring scheduled deliveries, product-of-the-month clubs, maintenance agreements, etc.) ShopSite’s latest release (v10SP1) makes it easy to automate your credit card billing with Authorize.Net’s Automated Recurring Billingtm (ARB) feature. Authorize.Net’s ARB feature securely stores your customer’s billing information and automatically charges their account on [...]

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Validating Phone Numbers in ShopSite

November 17, 2009

I was recently asked how to insure that phone numbers entered on the ShopSite Billing/Shipping screen have at least 10 digits. People enter phone numbers many different ways using spaces, dashes, parenthesis, periods, etc. I validate phone numbers by removing all non-numeric characters and checking the remaining digits. The following JavaScript snippet will work with [...]

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Dynamic Product Links for ShopSite

October 4, 2009

My friends at Affordable Preservation Co. asked how their ShopSite store could display alternate product links for specific referral traffic.  Affordable Preservation Co. had an email campaign with a link to a dedicated landing page.  The landing page had Add to Cart and More Info links for products that weren’t offered anywhere else in Affordable’s [...]

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ShopSite’s new Sales Tax API

September 3, 2009

ShopSite’s v10 Service Pack 1 release will include support for a new Sales Tax API. The new API is a great add-on for anybody that needs more control of over sales tax calculations and it can also be used to update an external database for sales tax reporting. ShopSite calls the API multiple times during [...]

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Assigning SKUs with the ShopSite Inventory API

August 30, 2009

ShopSite added the Inventory API (officially called the “Custom Inventory Tracking Add-on”) in Version 10. From its name, you might think it’s for connecting to an external inventory server or application and that’s what it does.  (Note that ShopSite also has built-in inventory tracking if you don’t have to synchronize with inventory that’s maintained somewhere [...]

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