Cart66 secures all aspects of your e-commerce - your products, customer data, even your customers shopping carts.
Author: Lee Blue
How To Be A Photographer With Cart66
Being a professional photographer involves more than just taking great photos. Once you have researched and purchased your equipment and honed your skills and creativity you need a way to turn your passion into your business. Cart66 Cloud powering a WordPress website is a great way to market your photography and start making money as a photographer.
WordPress Membership and Subscription Plugin
Up until now, running a WordPress membership site has been a rather complex thing because of all the different pieces of software you need to integrate. In general, you need the following components:
- Your WordPress website and theme
- A WordPress membership management plugin
- Some way to control access to certain parts of your website
- An SSL certificate, security scans, etc. to make sure your site is secure and PCI compliant
- A WordPress shopping cart or e-commerce plugin
- A payment gateway to collect credit card payments
- Some way to process recurring payments from your customers
Create Your Own Custom Subdomain
Now you can use your own subdomain for your secure checkout pages on Cart66 Cloud! It’s a new FREE feature for all accounts!
Emails, Exports, Gateways, and More!
We’ve been working on new features for Cart66 Cloud and have just released a bunch of new things. In additions to customer file uploads we have also released a bunch of highly requested enhancements.
WordPress E-commerce on Rackspace Cloud Sites
For a long time there has been a very common problem when it comes to running an e-commerce website on WordPress. Where can you find a reliable, secure, PCI compliant, and affordable web host for your online store?
Introduction to PCI Compliance
PCI compliance is much more than just installing an SSL certificate. See all the ways Cart66 protects you.
Top 10 WordPress Plugins We Recommend
We have tested many plugins and these are our favorites.
Of course we think PHPurchase is the #1 WordPress plugin. But we frequently get asked what other plugins we think are the best and which ones do we use most often. Many of these plugins we use on website that also use PHPurchase. For example, you can use the NextGEN Image Gallery plugin to create a slide show of product images. Use the All In One SEO Pack to optimize your store for search engines. Install the PageMash plugin to get your navigation the way you like it. Basically, combine these plugins with PHPurchase and you can make your WordPress site do anything you want. So, here is a list of the plugins that we think are the best.
Top 5 WordPress Theme Mistakes
After reviewing a countless number of WordPress themes from professionals and novices alike we have put together the top 5 most common mistakes we find in WordPress themes. The problem with these mistakes is that they can go unnoticed during development and cause all sorts of problems when you finally try to use your theme – especially if you are using plugins with your theme.
Improve Conversions With Live Chat – For Free!
Easily integrate Google’s Chatback Badge
It used to be an expensive, hard to install feature but today there are plenty of ways to add Live Chat support to your WordPress ecommerce website or blog – or any website. According to a study done by LivePerson, having a live chat feature on your online store improves shopping cart conversion rates by 18% – 20%. The problem is that a 5-agent site license from LivePerson is $495/month which is far too expensive for a small business or a blogger.
