This morning I had a new online store suspended on Google shopping due to policy violations that will become compulsory in February 2016. Google regularly changes its requirements in feed specification to improve search ability of the products in google…
CHK Electronics required a catalogue website to market their range of components but didn't require e-commerce. So, why did we choose an e-commerce software to build the site? Well, short of the cart functionality X-Cart did everything they required so…
We have spent the last 2 years working closely with ScramCard the innovators of a new secure payment card. Scramcard, a startup founded by former Westpac chief security officer Simon Hewitt, wants to solve credit card fraud – with something…
Improve store checkout conversion as well as delivery of your customers orders by using a postcode lookup service on your checkout. The service allows customers to enter a postcode and then choosing the address from a list which then populates…
We've just completed a quick turnaround of two brochures for The Plastic Shop and an A4 Flyer. The brochure had to be printed in English and Indonesian which added a few extra issues because no two languages will have equal…
We are proud to announce that The Plastic Shop store is now launched and looking fresh as a daisy. With a new design, Bootstrap framework plus custom development on top of X-Cart 4 we think this site shows what we…
On some occasions you just want to know what smarty variables are available to you in the .tpl file. On older versions of smarty v2 and before you can't just use {$debug} . So you can use the following instead.…
To get better granularity with styling in CSS on X-Cart 4 I have always felt that the body tag could do with more class declarations a bit like Wordpress and Drupal. So this could be used for example for styling…
Occasionally we are called upon to create just a logo and business card without a website! Here's an example of one we did recently for start up in Hove who required cards to hnd out to prospective customers. I'm sure…
One of the first changes I perform to the X-Cart 4 core code as a theme developer is to improve the way Extra Fields are held on the product page. Extra Fields are a great way to add custom fields…