AmeriCommerce Blog

Monday, April 20, 2015

Google Update "Mobilegeddon" Arrives April 21st

So “Mobilegeddon”, as its being called, is near. As of April 21st 2015 Google will use mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. For AmeriCommerce customers, this will only impact you if you have not yet embraced a mobile-friendly site design. To be “mobile friendly” means: Googlebot is allowed to crawl CSS & JavaScript to pass the Mobile-Friendly Test. As described in the February 26th announcement by Google, their algorithms need to be updated to reflect the usage patterns of mobile users. As...

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Monday, April 20, 2015

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Third Consecutive Year on the Inc 5000!

By Justin McCullough

AmeriCommerce is thrilled to be recognized three years in a row by Inc. Magazine as one of America's top 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies with a rank of #3057 overall. With previous ranking in 2013, and 2012, this achievement is beyond exciting.As a small team of passionate coders, designers, and ecommerce advocates, we feel this is a great show of our company growth and continued progress and dedication to our customers! “Honestly, we all get a high-five on this one. Our team, our...

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Thursday, August 21, 2014

New Stuff - The Complete Update on 2014.4 Release

By Team AmeriCommerce

Well friends, we've been busy adding more cool things for your store. As always, we've got a lot to share with you and we're excited about what these updates can do for your store! This post includes both the 2014.3 and 2014.4 releases of AmeriCommerce which are currently live on all stores. So lets dive in! New Features More often than not, it's the new features everyone wants to hear about. So here you go… First off, more speed tweaks!!! These updates are subtle tweaks to make your store ever...

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Friday, August 1, 2014

Login with Facebook - Now Available!

By Justin McCullough

In the 2014.4 release, AmeriCommerce stores can now use the popular Login with Facebook widget on your ecommerce store(s). It’s easy to add to your existing store and already included in our free responsive themes. With Facebook Login, you can: Remove friction on creating user accounts for your storeLeverage the largest social network for a convenient login option for your storeReduce abandoned cartsIncrease sales, product reviews, blog comments, and store logins Convenience has its benefits....

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

REST API is Here!

By Justin McCullough

For the past six months the dev team at AmeriCommerce have been hard at work building a new RESTful API. When you look under the hood on this API, it's truly impressive! This REST API is designed to be a replacement for the legacy SOAP API that the AmeriCommerce platform currently uses. For those of you not familiar with what an API is, it’s an application programming interface that allows software components to communicate with each other. Basically, it’s the nuts and bolts of how the...

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Good news. The 2014.2 release makes your store faster than ever before!

By Team AmeriCommerce

Over the last several months we had many soft releases for app settings, server maintenance, virtualization efforts and architecture improvements and now this one release pulls it all together with all kinds of extra horsepower! And you’ll see for yourself, when we say this stuff is super fast! But before rolling into the new updates, here is a quick reminder of the performance related features you’ve had for awhile: Browser-side image caching so that images never have to reload from the...

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Win A $15,000 Responsive Ecommerce Site Plus A Free Silver Plan For a Year. ( Press Release )

By Team AmeriCommerce

One lucky winner to receive an Ecommerce focused, phone and tablet friendly custom designed responsive website which uses best practices for web design and increased conversions. AmeriCommerce announces a $15,000 sweepstakes offer that awards 1 lucky winner a custom designed, responsive website and hosting for any business already online or wanting to get online with an ecommerce store. This sweepstakes offer is only available from May 1st through May 31st and anyone can enter the sweepstakes...

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

New Features, Themes, and Integrations! 2014.2 Release Details

By Team AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce is always developing new features, tools and platform updates. Every now and again we like to do a roundup of activities, updates, integrations and new features to keep everyone up to speed on our progress. We are very excited to announce that as of the 2014.2 release, AmeriCommerce customers have the following: New Features Everyone loves new features, they are what separate the mundane from the exceptional. Checkout the great new features available in AmeriCommerce: Q&A Feature...

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Friday, April 11, 2014

See the New Live Design

By Team AmeriCommerce

Core Features Now Accessible From the Storefront Using the New Live Design The new live design is chock full O’ goodies that were created to allow you to quickly customize the look and feel of your site from the convenience of your storefront. This seamless interface allows you to view a visual representation of the changes that you make to your store in real-time, allowing you to make changes on the fly from your storefront. Easy to Use Site Design Features The true power of the new Live...

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Friday, April 11, 2014

New Theme Store Launched

By Team AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce now has an open theme store featuring free, as well as paid themes designed by theme creators. A great theme is the backbone of any successful ecommerce store. A professional theme gives your shoppers the confidence and encouragement to shop with you. The Americommerce theme store provides that power by allowing anyone to customize the look and feel of their storefront without advance HTML or CSS knowledge. Store owners and designers can select from a variety of fully responsive...

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Friday, April 11, 2014

More Than a Dozen New Themes Released

By Team AmeriCommerce

AmeriCommerce now has more than a dozen free responsive ecommerce themes for you to choose from. At the end of the year last year Americommerce debuted the Rev Theme Engine which features fully responsive themes built from the bootstrap framework. The first fully responsive theme released was the Base Theme, which quickly became the de facto starter theme for ecommerce sites. Checkout the New Free Themes Now Added to the Theme Designer Dashboard Supply Co. Fully ResponsiveThemeAtomic Store...

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Friday, April 11, 2014