AmeriCommerce Blog

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Use Customer Rewards to Earn Points on Purchases and Increase Loyalty

Store owners need a way to reward purchases beyond free product giveaways or deep discounts. Don’t you agree? Instead of competing on price how about rewarding customers for their purchases with points – redeemable points! The AmeriCommerce customer rewards system enables you to have a full rewards system in place for purchases, redemption, and payment. Now you can create marketing promotions that drive more purchases and create more loyalty. With the reward system you can: Set points earned...

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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

PCI Explained and Demystified and How AmeriCommerce is PCI Certified

By David Blount

Did you know PCI Compliance is mandatory for any business that processes, transmits, or stores credit card information? In other words if you are selling retail or online and accept a credit card then you fall under PCI Compliance. In order to become PCI Compliant an organization must follow the Security Standards set forth by the PCI Council. This council is made up of five founding global payment brands as well as some strategic members. The PCI Council has come up with a comprehensive set of...

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Accept Payments, Split Payments, and Multiple Payment Options

By Justin McCullough

Lower the barriers for customers to checkout and pay. That’s a sure-fire way to increase sales. In AmeriCommerce 2013.1 and beyond, store owners now have several ways to take payments – or rather – you guys have several options available for your customers to make payments. Before jumping into the new stuff, let me first remind you of what’s already available. Accept payments via credit card Accept payment via PayPal Accept payment via gift certificate Accept payment via eCheck Accept payment...

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Friday, February 8, 2013

Need 10,000 Unique Trackable Coupon Codes?

By Justin McCullough

Discounts are straight forward. Well a few discounts are. But when you want to distribute a large number of unique coupon codes for tracking or mass promotional purposes, things can get harry. Not anymore. With the release of 2013.1 features for campaign coupon codes, you’ll be able to create any quantity of unique codes and apply it to a discount of your choosing. This is a huge win for sophisticated marketers, unique reward and loyalty programs and big promotions like Black...

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Nextopia Integration for Site Search

By Justin McCullough

AmeriCommerce integrates with Nextopia Software to provide advanced search tools and options. About Nextopia Nextopia Software provides next generation eCommerce Site Search, Navigation and Merchandising technology to online retailers so they can increase sales through enhanced user experience and shopper satisfaction. More than 1,500 retailing leaders – including Treetopia, ABT Electronics, Crabtree & Evelyn & Swatch – trust Nextopia's flagship eCommerce Site Search product, eComm|Search to...

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Thursday, December 13, 2012

New Integrations within AmeriCommerce Software

By Justin McCullough

Hey friends and fellow internet retailers, did you know we’ve added more apps and integrations recently? Here’s a quick list of what's been released recently. Check them out, each of these have special benefits that can help your online store. Check out by Amazon Checkout by Amazon is a complete checkout and payments service for e-commerce retailers. Offer Checkout by Amazon to enable millions of Amazon customers to use shipping addresses and payment information in their Amazon.com...

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Holiday Readiness

By Justin McCullough

It’s that time of the year and there is no doubt our merchants are ramping up for a busy selling season. Are you ready? I mean, is your online store ready? A quick spot check: Do you have the contact information of your infrastructure team (us at AmeriCommerce and third-party teams, shippers, etc)? Are you finished with any major site initiatives (redesign, re-architecture, new product imports, new integrations) and will they impact your holiday initiatives? Have you corrected any past...

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

It's Official, We're in Love with Zendesk

By Justin McCullough

On September 24th, we made the switch to our new support system, Zendesk. It's been a great transition and we really do love it! Zendesk says "More than 65 million people around the world receive support from Zendesk-powered customer service departments and help desks." Looks like they can add a few thousand more thanks to all of you guys who rely upon AmeriCommerce for your ecommerce software!It’s obvious you guys are happy about the transition too and thank you all for your comments and...

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Friday, September 14, 2012

AmeriCommerce Ranked 1982 in Inc 5000 ( Press Release )

By Justin McCullough

AmeriCommerce is recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of America's top 5,000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies with a rank of #1982 overall and #152 in the Software Industry. This is out of over 6 million companies in America, which means this honor is awarded to only the top .001% of companies each year. More than half a billion dollars in transaction volume is processed on the AmeriCommerce platform, transacting more per merchant than competing platforms by as much as 500%. Internet retailers...

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Monday, August 20, 2012

2 Lucky Winners Get Free Food. AmeriCommerce is Listed in 2012 Inc. 500|5000

By Justin McCullough

Woohoo! :-) We're all Smileys over here about being on the Inc. 5000 list by Inc. Magazine with a rank of 1982!If you don’t keep up with Inc. Magazine, then you may not realize it's an exclusive list of America’s fastest-growing private companies from more than 6 Million private companies. I know - right! And we were ranked 1982 fastest-growing company! But anyway, we’ll do an official press release later with our stats and stuff, but I wanted to loop you guys in on the behind the...

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Monday, August 13, 2012

Oh My! Feature Roundup from January to July!

By Justin McCullough

We release a lot of features. I mean a lot, and many of them go unnoticed. In today’s post, we thought it might be good to just do a six month roundup and highlight some of the good stuff we’ve release for you between January and June of this year. Many of these will boost your sales if you run with them! 1. Recurring Orders. Easy Money. Make money with less work. The entrepreneurs dream! Have you ever wanted to have one order repeat over and over again? Well, if you have products and...

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Monday, August 13, 2012