Why OpenCart is one of the best shopping cart platforms ...

One of the best ways to get an online shop set up quickly is to start with a theme for your ecommerce platform.

Do you use OpenCart 1.5 and PayPal Standard? You probably need this secuirty extension.

You may have wondered whether it's best to include the www. in your domain name, what's best for your customers and what's best for SEO. For example it's possible to link to http://antropy.co.uk or www.antropy.co.uk - which should you do?

Business Automation in its broadest sense could be said to have happened when the first person delegated a task to someone else. It may have been a tribal chief sending a group of hunter gatherers  out on a hunt, or delegating the preparation of tools to be exchanged for food. From his point of view, that task would mostly take care of itself, leaving him free to reap most of the rewards.

If you're running an online ecommerce business, you won't need us to tell you how important it is that your customers receive their order confirmation and status emails and that you and your team receive the admin emails to tell you when there's been an order.

If you sell high-value items through your website, you may find that customers would rather break the purchase in to on-going monthly payments than pay in one big hit. Although this is now possible in OpenCart, if you use the built-in recurring payments via PayPal, you will take the risk that the customer will cancel the payments once the item has been delivered.

If you're using OpenCart 1.5.x and PayPal Standard as your gateway, you shop is potentially vulnerable to an attack that will allow customers to pay what they want for your products. Now I know Radiohead popularized this concept with their "In Rainbows" album, but I suspect the model doesn't work so well for companies that are selling tangible products.