Selecting a Web Host is one of the key decisions that you will have to make when starting out a blog or a website.  There are many factors to consider, but ease in setting up your content management system and/or ecommerce solution is one of those factors.  While installation is one time, you also need [...]

The new CW2 Shoppe theme is a full featured theme - all the features you have come to expect from Customweb2!  This theme is geared towards building an ecommerce site - from soup to nuts, from start to finish.  But as with all of our themes, we suspect that customers will find ecommerce uses that [...]

The Magento eCommerce platform is an open source ecommerce web application that is the fastest growing ecommerce platform on the Internet.  Magento has a ton of features - but we want to share the top 10 reasons why we love working with this product.
1. Multi-Site Functionality
If you have, or think you will someday have, more [...]

PayPal makes accepting payments quite easy. We will show you several ways to add a PayPal payment button to the posts, pages or sidebar of your WordPress blog.  Once you see the steps, you will see that they are not hard - but it will also highlight the value of plugins that can handle this [...]

If you want to do business online - you are going to need to accept credit cards as they are the primary method  for payment.  The first thing you will need is a merchant account with a bank. The next thing you will need is a payment gateway which is essentially a service which [...]

Even though billions of dollars of Internet based commerce take place every year, there are still consumers who worry about the Internet as a reliable way to conduct business.  The major worry is credit card theft or fraud.  While they might have come to terms with Amazon.com and iTunes handling their credit cards, you as [...]

Perhaps you operate a small business selling goods or services and you want to create an Internet sales channel.  Or perhaps you have a great idea for a business selling goods or services and you want to start this business online.  Whatever the reason, you have many choices for how to create an online ecommerce [...]

If you run or are planning to run a website and make sales online, you are going to need a way to collect payment information from the customer while they are online.  While there are several options, a merchant account will be the best option for most businesses.

Internet Merchant account - With an Internet merchant [...]

So how do you decide between the Ecommerce systems -  Zencart, Magento and osCommerce?  Each of these are excellent systems.  If you try to ask this question on some forum or newsgroup, you will surely get many replies - many contrasting opinions and still no conclusive winner.
Deciding on a ecommerce system is not a simple [...]