Development blog charting the progress and latest news for our eCommerce Software
31
Aug
One often overlooked area of your eCommerce store is the use of images. Shoppers will visit your store expecting to see high quality images of your products supplemented by good quality descriptions in order to make a buying decision. Here’s some top tips for making sure your products have the impact they deserve…
Image Quality – [...]
28
Aug
eCommerce fraud is on the up, it’s a fact. As more and more retailers turn to the web to complement traditional bricks and mortar stores, online fraud is becoming a real issue but luckily there are ways to fight back.
For some time now, Mastercard and Visa have had the 3D secure validation system in place [...]
27
Aug
OK another sneak peek into the Novus Project…
A key decision when designing the next release of our eCommerce software was to increase the flexibility of design and layout for the stores. The Novus Project will have the ability to support unlimited themes or designs but it goes way beyond just changing the colours…
It will be [...]
26
Aug
We have received a few bug reports for v1.4.0 of the OMC system and so we are today releasing a patch to resolve these issues.
If you have paid for the upgrade service since the launch of v1.4.0 then there is nothing to do as we have applied the patch for you.
If you have already upgraded [...]
22
Aug
Facebook has reached deep into online communities in an incredibly short space of time primarily down to it’s ease of use and open structure allowing developers to easily add new applications to share amongst users.
Recently though, multiple malicious applications have started appearing which are very cleverly disguised phishing sites often compromising user’s accounts without their [...]
21
Aug
Currently our eCommerce software only supports a single skin or theme. One of the things we though would be really cool was allowing store owners to have multiple themes running through the store.
So on department may have a certain colour scheme and layout and another department may have it’s own unique design so we [...]
21
Aug
From Encyclo.co.uk:
Latin, meaning: new, fresh, young, inexperienced, revived, refreshed.
The Novus project is the name we have given to the future release of Open Mind Commerce 2.0. This version is a complete rewrite of our software from the ground up taking all the elements in our ecommerce software and streamlining/improving them further.
We chose the word Novus [...]
20
Aug
I though it was about time to update the Open Mind Commerce latest news and move it to a full featured platform. I decided on using WordPress simply as:
I knew the software well
It had all the features I needed SEO wise
I don’t have time to write my own blogging tool
The main challenge I [...]
17
Aug
We are very pleased to announce that v1.4.0 of the Open Mind Commerce system is finally available for download!
Despite this being slightly delayed for various reasons, v1.4.0 contains some eagerly anticipated features that many eCommerce software owners have been crying out for! So what’s new?
Single Page Checkout
In pas release of our eCommerce software, shoppers have [...]