Category Archives: Ecommerce
A new look and a mobile friendly site were high on the list of improvements that Hyatt Gun Store wanted for their existing site. We’re pretty proud of the work that Henry completed on this site and thought it was just too good not to share!
Site Improvements
• Upgrade to X-Cart 4.7
• Customized Mobility Template
• Wordpress Integration
• Custom Layaway Feature
• Customized Search feature
• Responsive Skin With Customizations
Justin, of Hyatt Guns, has noticed a significant increase in the page views on the site and a large decrease in the bounce rate as well. This is all great news for our long-time customer! More views with less bounce rate=increased sales and that’s always a great thing!
Homepage Old vs.New
New Site Home Page
Cleaner look & feel, much easier site navigation and showcasing products and services in a more visible manner.
Old Site Home Page
Note the side columns have been replaced by drop down menus on the new site. This site was pretty busy with many areas competing for attention.
New Product Pages
All product info is on one page, not hidden in tabs and requires minimal clicks to get to the information.
New Check Out
Features our Smooth One Page Checkout that guides the customer through the required information and also requires minimal clicking & page reloads! As the customer scrolls, the cart is always visible on the left hand side of the screen.
We’d love to help you get the site that you want for your business. Contact Us to day for a Free Quote! No project is too big or too small!
BCS Engineering – Providing Customers with the proper resources to help their business succeed since 2002!
BCSE has partnered with global technology and ecommerce leader, Pitney Bowes, to offer international shipping for X-Cart & Magento. (Contact Us) to download the Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart or Magento Extension and you can start seamlessly selling and shipping your products to 70+ countries around the world!
The Pitney Bowes Global Shipping Platform for X-Cart & Magento simplifies international sales by providing:
- Guaranteed, fully-landed international cost quotes for 70+ countries on your store’s checkout page. Quotes include real-time duty, tax, brokerage fees and international shipping & handling
- Unparalleled international shipping rates that no other service can offer
- Reliable coordination of parcel management across borders including routing, logistics, tracking, insurability and last mile delivery
- Transparent international shipping restrictions based on country-specific import rules and product classifications
We’re very excited to offer this industry leading solution to our customers! By presenting clarity and accuracy in the buying process, certainty and transparency in delivery, and dependable, competitive pricing, delivering a successful cross-border experience to your customers will be just one click away.
For more information, please visit X-Cart International Shipping or Magento International Shipping. Feel free to Contact Us if you have any questions regarding this fantastic opportunity!
We have some exciting news to pass on to customers using X-Cart 4 (a.k.a. X-Cart Classic) as their platform of choice. While Carrie was in attendance at the X-Cart Meetup in Orlando last week, the X-Cart team provided updates regarding the future status of X-Cart 4. It is our understanding that X-Cart will be continuing to support the X-Cart 4 branch for at least another 5 years.
Part of the reasoning for this appears to be that most of the current users of X-Cart are using the X-Cart 4 branch as opposed to X-Cart 5 – to the tune of approximately 75%. As such, customer demand seems to be the propelling factor behind the continued support. However, X-Cart 5 leads the way among users new to the X-Cart family.
BCS Engineering will continue to support the X-Cart 4 branch as long as we have customers requesting support. We are also in the process of ramping up our involvement with X-Cart 5 by porting some of our more heavily-requested mods to this branch. At the same time, we are increasing the number of X-Cart 5 related customer projects we are fielding. As always, if you are looking for support on an upcoming X-Cart project, feel free to contact us for a free quote!
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As a courtesy to our customers (particularly those who also operate store-front locations), we wanted to spread the word about an upcoming change to credit card processing. Starting October 1st, the liability on chargebacks could be shifted from your payment processor to your business if an EMV card reader is not being used to process transactions.
According to this Entrepreneur article, the change is coming about due to increased security being designed into credit cards to help prevent fraud. EMV cards are similar to magnetic stripe cards. However, they are more secure as there is a microprocessor embedded in the card. This microprocessor generates what is essentially a one-time code with each transaction. This one-time authentication is what makes the cards more secure from fraud. Standard magnetic stripe cards are relatively easy to duplicate, and as such, more likely to be implicated in fraud.
This change to EMV card readers is “voluntary”, however payment processors and banks will definitely be encouraging their customers to make the switch. For businesses though, the switch in liability should be enough motivation to make the change “mandatory”. For more details on this impending change, read the full Entrepreneur article.
As we have had some questions come in regarding this change, we wanted to issue a brief explanation of how this might affect our customers. For a little background, PayPal is changing their standards on what SSL certs they will accept connections from. PayPal states: “It is important to note that these changes are to address industry-wide security issues and are not unique to PayPal. When implemented, they will improve the privacy and reliability of your PayPal integrations.”
BCS Engineering is in full support of these changes. The recent upgrades to SSL on our hosted environments should address any concerns for customers who host with us. Any hosted sites should also be using the correct certs at this point.
For customers who host elsewhere and purchase SSL certificates through us, we have been changing customers away from the problematic 1024-bit certificates to the more secure 2048-bit certificates as renewals come up. If however, you have purchased a longer term 1024-bit certificate that has not expired before these changes were standard, we can re-issue an appropriate cert for an installation fee. Also, if your site is hosted elsewhere, it is possible your host may need to update your server to ensure compliance with these changes.
To read the full statement from PayPal, click here.
