AmeriCommerce Blog

Monday, July 1, 2019

Lightning Fast Speeds Arrive at AmeriCommerce Online Stores

Everyone hates a slow website. Visitors and hosts alike are always chasing lightning fast speeds to increase experience, please Google, and for e-commerce online stores it means converting visitors to sales. That’s why AmeriCommerce takes load times, request times and other speed metrics very seriously. These metrics can be the deciding force in an online store’s success. One of the largest issues facing online stores is the fact that e-commerce platforms tend to struggle more than other...

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Monday, July 1, 2019

Monday, April 22, 2019

More Power & More Control! Welcome “My Account”

By Jack Cravy

With several months of blood sweat and tears by our hard-working product development team, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of the new My Account service! Allowing merchants of the AmeriCommerce platform to manage their own account has been requested by customers for years and we’re super excited to announce that this service is now finally landing to those that have been patiently waiting. We’ve not only introduced the much requested invoice and billing management system,...

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Monday, April 22, 2019

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Welcome to 2019! Release Update and History

By Jack Cravy

Time flies doesn’t it?! It seems like it was just yesterday when we announced new updates for the 2018 new year. Our team here at AmeriCommerce weren’t the only ones keeping busy. When it comes to e-commerce, the industry was as booming as ever. In 2018, E-commerce sales comprised of 11.9% of total retail sales globally (up from 10.2% in 2017). Experts predict that by 2021 we’ll hit 17.5% of all total retail sales. It’s amazing how many people worldwide are turning to shopping online versus in...

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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Friday, June 22, 2018

Supreme Court Ruling: Sales Tax For Out-Of-State

By Jack Cravy

One June 21st the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5-4 to overturn the 1992 case Quill v. North Dakota which will now allow states (and counties) to collect sales tax from online and out-of-state retailers. A lot of our merchants and readers may be wondering how this effects the average every day business selling products online. What this means is that a state or county can legally require ecommerce merchants to report/charge sales tax in that given area regardless of a physical...

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Friday, June 22, 2018

What is TLS and how does it affect my website?

By Jack Cravy

PCI Data Security Standard team has stated that 30 June 2018 is the deadline for disabling SSL/early TLS and implementing a more secure encryption protocol – TLS 1.1 or higher (TLS v1.2 is strongly encouraged) in order to meet the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for safeguarding payment data. Due to this happening, we thought it best to inform some of our readers of what exactly TLS is and how it affects your online store. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and is a protocol organized...

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Friday, June 22, 2018

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Spring 2018 Release Update

By Jack Cravy

If you haven't noticed, the team at AmeriCommerce has been making some impressive strides lately and working tirelessly to improve our platform's speed, stability and security while bringing some awesome new capabilities our merchants will love. In the last 6 months, we've seen a 202% increase in total sales and a 256% increase in addon services! By targeting the most common issues experienced by our merchants we've also reduced total incoming support tickets by 47% while also increasing our...

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Thursday, January 25, 2018

AmeriCommerce Powers Up with added CDN, Faster Routing & Automatic SSLs

By Jack Cravy

Last November AmeriCommerce let the world know that we were dedicated to improving our platform's speed, stability and security while promising great things to come in 2018 and beyond. We are super stoked to announce some major improvements to our infrastructure by successfully teaming up with Cloudflare to help significantly upgrade speed, boost security, and automate those pesky SSL's. Our support team may be reaching out to you and providing you with a DNS Record to change so that you can...

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Thursday, January 25, 2018

Friday, December 29, 2017

Here We Come 2018! Release Update

By Jack Cravy

Happy New Year! 2017 was great year for the ecommerce industry and it's only going to get bigger. According to TechCrunch, "Cyber Monday hits record-breaking $6.59B in US online sales" which is a major win for ecommerce store owners all over the world (and that was just ONE day!). AmeriCommerce has been working over the holidays to improve the platform in several ways and prep for another big year in 2018. As you know, we want to supercharge our merchants abilities and continue giving jolts of...

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Friday, December 29, 2017

Friday, December 15, 2017

PYMNTS.COM: AmeriCommerce Giving A Platform-Powered Assist To Ambitious Merchants

By Jack Cravy

Ambitious retailers don’t want to stay locked in one lane, but rather to spread to new audiences, new product types and more — and payments-powering companies are stepping up to give them the lift they need to reach these expansion dreams. The December edition of the PYMNTS Payments Powering Platforms Tracker™, a WePay collaboration, features the latest insight from Ed Sturrock, the CEO of AmeriCommerce, a major player in the eCommerce platform space, and the latest headlines from the space....

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Friday, December 15, 2017

Thursday, November 2, 2017

AmeriCommerce Acquires...Itself!

By Jack Cravy

As of October 1st 2017, AmeriCommerce is officially back! No longer a Capital One company, we here at AmeriCommerce are excited for the future and what that holds for our platform, our customers, and our team.

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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Thursday, May 28, 2015

New Admin Look and New Brand – Coming Soon!

By Team AmeriCommerce

New Look - Coming Soon! Hey friends, we wanted to let you know that we will soon be updating the admin visuals and changing our website to reflect our transition into the Capital One family! In terms of the store management experience, you’ll still manage your stores as you always have but you’ll see some visual updates with our new colors and logo. So other than simple cosmetic tweaks, you won't experience any disruption or changes to your admin. New Admin Look and Feel The AmeriCommerce...

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Thursday, May 28, 2015