Come see us at the SEMA show! Booth #11951 in the North Hall. We will be there all week. And will be giving an in-depth look at building a successful online auto parts store. November 2, 2011 – 1:30pm – 2:00pm (LVCC, N259)

Visit the SEMA website for more info: http://www.semashow.com/event/2011/11/02/exhibitor-product-training-atwoodz-building-a-successful-online-auto-parts-store

Just received another PayPal email warning of some possible outages during the fall/winter holiday season. Text from them below.

We’ve let you know many times over the past few months that we have been making upgrades to our system to help improve the performance and availability of our services.  We have scheduled a few more activities which will help make our services more scalable and ensure that they’re continuously available to our growing customer base, particularly as we near the holiday shopping season.

Please be sure to share this notification with your technical resources because network configuration changes may be necessary to avoid a disruption in service.  Please note that there is also information regarding a short service interruption for Payflow on October 1^st.

If you experience communication or transaction processing issues outside of the scheduled maintenance times above, you can file a ticket via www.PayPal.com/mts.  For your reference, there’s information about all of our maintenance activities and system updates at www.x.com, then go to: PayPal Developers àDocumentation & Tools à Site Status.

We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve our services and apologize in advance for any inconvenience.  If you have any questions, please click “Contact Us” at the bottom of any PayPal page.

Sincerely,

PayPal

Hello,

Thank you for participating in Google Product Search. We are reaching out to you to inform you about important changes we’re making to our Product Search required attributes and Program Policies. All merchants will be affected by these changes.

We are now requiring a new set of basic required attributes, as well as attributes which are required for certain product categories and target countries. Please read the new Feeds Specification carefully to determine how your data feed will need to change at http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=188494

You can find a summary of the new requirements in table form at http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=1344057

Starting September 22, accounts that do not comply with the new requirements will be suspended. For more information about how we will enforce the new policies, visit this Help Center article http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=188484

Please update your account settings or data feeds as soon as possible to ensure that you are complying with these new requirements by the dates specified above. For more information about these changes, please visit our Google Merchant blog at http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/important-changes-to-google-product.html.

Sincerely,

The Google Product Search Team

© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Merchant Center product or account.

ezOSC has just released a one page checkout… and before you get your panties in a bunch, this one actually works! It has been tested on osCommerce versions 2.2rc2a and 2.3.x! Not to mention it works with Multi-Vendor support! And of course, it works on every flavor of ezOSC!

Please give us a call here to fix your present buggy one page checkout, or if you would like us to install a fresh clean one-page checkout on your store today!

ezOSC supports all products we provide. We will make sure it works with your store and all support is included.

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PayPal will be having scheduled maintenance on June 16, 2011 from 11:04 to 11:30 PM PT. Their letter is posted below.

Dear Paypal User,

We’ll be making a series of system updates in the coming months to make our services more scalable and help ensure that they’re continuously available to our growing customer base.  The next update is scheduled to happen on June 16, 2011, and as a result, PayPal will experience a service interruption.  We’ve tried to choose a time that will minimize impact to your business and your customers.

How this may affect PayPal services

The PayPal website and PayPal APIs will be offline on June 16, 2011 from11:04 PM PT to approximately 11:30 PM PT and buyers attempting to make payments will receive error messages and won’t be able to complete their purchases.  Other services that will be down during this time include Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition and Batch Processing (batch.paypal.com). We’ll be sure to let you know ahead of time when we do our next round of maintenance.

Resources and technical support

If you experience issues outside of 11:04 PM PT – 11:30 PT, you can file a ticket via www.Paypal.com/mts.  There’s information about this maintenance event here, and you can monitor system updates on x.com any time.

We appreciate your patience as we improve our services and apologize in advance for any inconvenience you incur as a result of this service interruption. If you have questions about this planned downtime, please click “Contact Us” at the bottom of any PayPal page.

Thanks,

PayPal

TBA
Guest Lecturer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(Current technology in Special Events and Hospitality)

05.26.2011
Guest Lecturer, The Art Institute of Las Vegas.
(Topic: Technology and the New Technology Medium.)

05.24.2011
Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce
(Shopping Cart Technology and Mobile Applications)

FedEx sent out an email today advising that customers using FedEx Web Services, FedEx Ship Manager® API and FedEx Ship Manager® Direct solutions will be unable to process transactions. We thought you should know. Info from the email below:

Please be advised of the following important update from FedEx. Customers using FedEx Web Services, FedEx Ship Manager^® API and FedEx Ship Manager^® Direct solutions will be unable to process transactions within the affected environment.

June 1, 2011 update:

Start Date and Time	End Date and Time	Duration	FedEx Systems Affected
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8 a.m. CT	Wednesday, June 1, 2011 5 p.m. CT	9 hours	Rating, Shipping and Tracking (Test Environment)

June 11, 2011 update:

Start Date and Time	End Date and Time	Duration	FedEx Systems Affected
Saturday, June 11, 2011 9 p.m. CT	Saturday, June 11, 2011 11 p.m. CT	2 hours	Rating, Shipping and Tracking (Production Environment)
Saturday, June 11, 2011 9 p.m. CT	Sunday, June 12, 2011 3 a.m. CT	6 hours	Dispatch (Production Environment)

June 11, 2011 extended support hours:
FedEx service representatives will be available Sunday, June 12, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT for your convenience. Support hours will be in addition to our regularly scheduled support hours. If you have questions or need technical assistance following the update, please call 1.877.339.2774 and say “Web Services” at the prompt.

We regret any inconvenience due to these service interruptions; however, please ensure that your appropriate team members are aware of these important updates.

Thank you for using FedEx. We appreciate your business.

The FedEx Web Integration Solutions Team

FedEx’s recent API change from the Ship Manager API to the Web Services Shipping Module has been a bit of an issue.  Luckily, the guys at ezOSC were already on it!  They were able to create a module that integrates ezOSC, osCommerce, CRE Loaded, and OSC Max seamlessly with the newer FedEx Web Services API.  Did I mention it has Multi-vendor support?  Yes! This module fully integrates into all multi-vendor osCommerce based software.

If you would like this module for your store please contact ezOSC – Toll Free (800) 961-7427

osCommerce is free open source online store-management software which is powered by very well established and responsive osCommerce community.  osCommerce began in 2000, and has now matured into a solution that is currently powering a wide variety of online shops around the globe. The services it offers are helping business owners in many ways, and are making it easier for them to concentrate on keeping their business up and running while serving a constantly growing number of customers on a daily basis. You can find more information at http://osCommerce.com, easy to install and manage which makes it stand out among online software. It falls under the Webshop type. More technical knowledge is required to customize this store. So you must hire a company for osCommerce support. Our company ezOCS.com is a software company which provides you 24/7 support to the osCommerce storekeepers for installation and management as it requires a technical knowledge. We also develop custom modules for the osCommerce stores as per their requirements. You can contact us 24/7 (anytime) on our telephone number (800) 961-7427.

Ease of use and the developer support have all lead to the increase of osCommerce as a preferred ecommerce platform for many businesses stores. When installing the platform, we need to change the large number of attributes values. There are few advantages of using osCommerce system. It is very easy to install and use and a full-featured shopping cart using Php and MySQL. As it uses indexed database, it supports a large number of products and categories and can handle numerous products. A number of add-on modules are there to use and many more are in development phase and will be available soon.

An issue with osCommerce that may put people off is the lack of inbuilt password protection within the admin area. However there are a number of ways around this. Password protection doesn’t come with the default installation but the support site offers you the ability to install it. Alternatively a web developer will be able to take you through it and if you intend to have a large product catalog, your site will require additional modules for management of data if the information is changing frequently. This is not a major issue and is one that can be overcome pretty easily with our companies (ezOSC) support for osCommerce reachable anytime.

It is serving both the business owner and the customer in ways that will only help E-commerce get better.

The services of an osCommerce development company can be classified into two: osCommerce design and osCommerce development. osCommerce designing includes the two: customization and programming. osCommerce development focuses on integrating and upgrading. In this the focus is on creating a virtual store over the internet which has the capacity for receiving online payments, ability to establish links with shipping companies for the facilitation of the delivery of goods, an automated inventory system and support services that will address client queries.

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