Before ending this year we present you a list of blog articles that attracted a great deal of interest. This year, ePages has rolled out two major updates. Consequently, our blog posts about new features belonged to the most outstanding topics of 2013. What’s more, our practical advice in terms of SEO or basket abandonment reduction reached a broad audience.
If there is one thing that we know for sure about the future of retail, it is that its evolution will accelerate. Shopping is increasingly becoming an experience that can begin at anytime and anywhere. Today we introduce you to Next in Commerce and in the following weeks we will keep presenting you some of the most rocking trends. Read more
After the 31st of December 2013, the ClickandBuy payment method will no longer be available in the ePages software. Below we will explain who is affected by this change and what will need to be done.
As a leading international provider of online shop software, ePages is offering attractive positions across our various offices. We are currently looking for new talent due to the significant growth in e-commerce. In an interview with the German website onlinemarketing.de, our CEO Wilfried Beeck talked about the benefits of ePages as an employer.
Sure, it’s only the beginning of September but you cannot start early enough thinking about your autumn and Christmas campaigns in your online shop. We recommend reviewing your ePages shop well in advance. In this article, we present some tips to check your texts, images and settings, but also, to improve your e-commerce strategy. Act now and achieve more sales in the last campaigns of 2013.
With over 600 million registered users, Facebook is by far the largest social network in the world. On average, Facebook users spend over three hours a day on the platform. Measured by visitor times, the network from Palo Alto California far outranks Internet top dog Google. All this makes Facebook one of the largest channels through which online merchants can generate customers. We’ve taken all of this into account, and included a Facebook integration to ePages in version 6.11. The ePages blog explains which level of integration is possible. Read more
It’s time to say goodbye to HTML tables. With version 6.11. ePages is switching to DIVs as the basic element for the layout structure. By doing so we are not only improving the performance of the whole system and the structure of ePages but also setting the cornerstone for the improved storefront for mobile devices. If you have created the layout of your shop by using the standard editors of your backoffice the technological change will have no visible effect on the layout of your storefront. But if you have used self written CSS code to adjust the layout of your shop it might be possible that these layout changes will no longer be in place after the update. The ePages blog explains the reasons for that and show you the necessary adjustments that are needed to get back your layout.
"A majority of companies have not yet transitioned to international e-commerce." Wilfried Beeck – CEO of ePages, Europe’s market leader for e-commerce – shared that insight during his "Sell Global, Think Local" speech at WorldHostingDays 2011. This event in Rust, Germany attracted more than 4,000 attendees this year, and has become the premier get-together in recent years for the international hosting industry.
Chase Paymentech Europe has announced results from a national survey exploring the challenges faced by UK firms in ‘Customer Not Present’ (CNP) payments. Western European online retail sales are projected to grow 11 percent to reach £153 billion by 2014. On a regional level, several key European countries have seen record growth above the UK’s growth of 160 percent over the past few years: examples include Spain at 199 percent and both France and Italy at 181 percent. Martijn Werdler, Commercial Director at Docdata Payments takes a look at the impact on payments for cross border e-commerce. Read more
Certain versions of ePages shop software have been experiencing problems while a shop’s website is being loaded. This results in "white pages", or pages which display no content. This issue occurs primarily in a shop’s back office and is limited to certain versions of the Firefox browser. Shop storefronts are affected less frequently. Continue reading the ePages blog to learn what causes this issue to occur and which solutions facilitate smooth sailing for shops.
From Version 6.10.0, you have more options for designing order documents such as invoices, bills of sale and credit notes. They can then be e-mailed automatically to your customers as PDFs. The ePages blog will show you how it’s done.
Inconspicuous yet important: the “Advanced search” function is often overlooked by shop operators. That’s a shame, because it significantly simplifies the managing of orders and customers; it also facilitates marketing measures for individual customers. Continue reading the ePages blog to learn where it is "hiding" and what it can make possible.