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This week I had the joy of experiencing X-Cart. And what joy it was. How I love thee, X-Cart!

(Ummm… yeah… Can you hear the sarcasm in my typing?)

Let’s start with some ugly truths. This shopping cart software is far from ideal for beginners. It’s certainly feature-filled, but the sad thing is, it’s so counter-intuitive that third-party add-ons have been created just to make X-Cart “easy to use”. What?!? Shouldn’t it be easy in the first place? Oh well, guess I’ll have to fork out some money for that add-on. (NOT) (more…)

Following up on my last post in eCommerce, here’s my report on PayPal’s Website Payments Pro. (more…)

For quite some time, I’ve been exploring ways to make it easier for people to make payments online. There’s the old standby, PayPal, and more recently I’ve been looking at Google’s Checkout API. In their most basic forms, both of these online payment solutions are easy to implement. (more…)