Category: Online shop & ecommerce

Copying&Pasting Content from MS Word – Display Errors in Your Online Shop

You have created texts in Microsoft Office for your online shop and inserted them in the right places in your back office? When you check the storefront, however, you notice that the same content is not visible to visitors? Don’t worry! This is not a system error. Read the ePages blog to learn the cause of this apparent bug—and learn how to prevent it from occurring. Read more

B2B features of your ePages shop – part 2/2

In the first part of the article “B2B features of your ePages shop” we took a look at the possibilities how to make customers individual offerings by using your ePages online shop. The second part of the article deals with handling gross/net-VAT, how to make it easier for your business clients to set orders by using the order form and shopping lists and what you can do to connect your ePages shop to ERP and CRM software of your choice. Read more

B2B features of your ePages-Shop – part 1/2

The best sales opportunities sometimes arise between businesses. Large transactions, regular customers, dependable partners – being a player in the Business to Business market can pay off. An important factor supporting your B2B success is found in your ePages online shop standard feature set. The ePages Blog will show you what’s available.

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Mail from your online shop – automatic customer mailings

Turning your new customers into regular customers is normally more economical than spending your resources trying to generate more new customers. This business maxim also applies to online business. And two of the best strategies to turn this good idea into action are to provide good customer service and information. A merchant who keeps his customers informed of their order progress generates satisfied customers who gladly come back again. Your ePages shop can support you in this task, with its automatic Email-notification features. Read more

ePages at the WebhostingDay 2010

“Get connected“ is this year´s motto at the WebhostingDay, the biggest Webhosting-Event in the world. Over 2,000 decision makers from Europe´s, North America´s and Asia´s leading providers will meet from March 17.-19. at the Phantasialand in Brühl to discuss industry trends, check out new business opportunities and socialise with friends and business contacts. This year, ePages will show up at the WebhostingDay with an exceptionally big team. Read more

ePages at Parallels Summit 2010

The Parallels Summit 2010 at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami is one of the biggest event for the hosting business. ePages were proud to be one of the sponsors this year.  The Parallels Summit is well known to attract the key industry players in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and web hosting industries.  This year´s motto: “Profit from the cloud”

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The ePages outlook for 2010 – Interview with Sören von Varchmin

ePages has a lot planned for 2010. The company wants to grow in many areas and markets. As new Vice President of Sales since November, Sören von Varchmin is now responsible for this. In November of last year, the native-born Wuppertaler moved from the management of Parallels – the leading company for virtualisation and automation software – to the ePages headquarters in Hamburg.

 

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Payment methods in online shops IV – Setting up your ePages shop

How to set up specific payment methods in my ePages online shop? The fourth blog-article of our mini-series “Payment methods in online shops” gives you the answer to that question using four tutorial videos specifically created for you.

 

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ePages for SAP Business One: Online Shop meets Enterprise Resource Planning

Your online business is thriving and you are looking for ways to simplify the processing of orders? You are a medium-sized business with SAP Business One and want to enter the world of e-commerce? Then our new product “ePages for SAP Business One” is the perfect solution for you! Please read in our ePages blog just how easy it is to combine a rental shop with an enterprise resource-planning system — even without programming experience.

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E-Commerce-Literature: recommended by ePages

How to be successful with my E-Commerce-Project? And how to use the ePages-Software-Feature for that? Our blog gives you the answers for that. In order to always be up to date in the rapidly changing E-Commerce-Business we do look in to interesting articles and blog postings on a daily basis. Find the most interesting ones we came across in our new series “E-Commerce-Literature: recommended by ePages.” Have fun exploring.

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Payment Systems in Online Shops II: The Agony of Choosing

A customer walks into your shop. As the owner of a brick-and-mortar store, your mission is simple. The only question you need to concern yourself with in this moment is: “How can I persuade this customer to spend money here?” But this same task is more difficult for you as an online merchant. The question you must be able to answer is: “Precisely what form of payment might this customer use?” After all, the customer can and will purchase something in your shop only if you allow them to pay as they wish. We will explore this issue in Part Two of our “Payment Systems in Online Shops” series.

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Payment Methods in Online Shops — Part I: A Forest Full of Trees (continued)

Our survey of the different payment systems with regard to e-commerce continues. In the second and final part of “Payment Methods in Online Shops — Part 1: A Forest Full of Trees”, we explore the two remaining categories: “Payment with safeguards” and “Payment with virtual wallet”. These two categories have one thing in common: external service providers ensure that transactions are properly processed. Read more