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If you’re launching or migrating an ecommerce site you’ll want to decide which category of shopping cart best compliments your store’s scope and your level of technical knowledge. Maybe you’re on the market for a platform that includes hosting like Shopify and BigCommerce. These cloud-based carts don’t require you to know any code but offer […]

If you’re considering using open source shopping cart software to create or migrate an existing online store, chances are you’re either a confident coder or are ready to hire a professional to develop your shop. In either case, you’ll want to consider two popular open source platforms: Magento and Zen Cart. Launched a decade ago, […]

Since they are free to download and community-powered, open source shopping carts can be attractive options for merchants, especially those of us with some coding skills. Two well-established examples of open source carts that allow you to create and operate an online store are osCommerce and Zen Cart. Best known as one of the original […]

Things are going well with our current reviews, so we’ve decided to expand into other categories. We wanted to get your input on what types of reviews we should tackle next. Let us know in the survey below. Thanks!

Paypal is running a promotion right now that basically waives your credit card transaction fees until January 31st, 2014 when you upgrade your current POS to a modern system. The participating POS vendors are: Shopkeep Vend What this all means is that you’ll be able to integrate Paypal with either Shopkeep or Vend allowing you […]

Merchant Maverick has officially turned four! We were so busy with work that we almost forgot it’s our bday! We honestly have only you to thank for our continued success. Your support is much appreciated! Considering that you’re the most important piece of the puzzle, we’d love to hear your thoughts about where we go from […]

Whether you’ve quit your day job in order to operate a jewelry or specialty food business online or are looking to earn extra income by selling vintage clothes or merch for your band, there are several ways for your creative company to start selling online. Maybe you’ve been filling orders on Etsy for a little […]

One of the most confusing billing methods in the credit card processing industry today is the billback (BB) method. Chances are, you don’t even know what it is. What’s worse is that billback spawned itself an offspring called enhanced billback (EBB), which is even more complex than the original. To add even more confusion, the […]

As a business owner – whether of a retail establishment or an online store – you know that credit card processing fees eat into a big slice of your profits. Just glancing at your merchant account statement each month could send you into a dizzying spin of frustration – especially when you see those outrageous Mastercard and Visa downgrade fees costing […]

We’ve all been there – swindled into a contract that we never should have agreed to in the first place. Fine print and loaded statements make it difficult to decipher the early termination fees we’re accepting, yet we sign on the dotted line anyway. It isn’t until we decide to cancel our contracts that buyer’s […]