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It’s the first of December, and that means one thing: it’s time to throw yourself fully into your holiday marketing. The holiday season is the busiest two months of the year for the majority of retailers, with more shoppers searching online than ever before. It’s vital that you remind your ..

“Black Friday”, the day after Thanksgiving Day, marks the start of the holiday season for many retailers. Although it originated in the USA, Black Friday has quickly become one of the most popular shopping days of the year in countries around the world. The sale usually lasts for one day, but..

For the majority of retailers, the holiday season is the busiest and most profitable time of the year. With the most popular shopping dates fast approaching, it's time to start preparing your store, staff and website for the holiday rush.    Holiday shopping can ..

That’s right, you can now download the long awaited OpenCart version 2.0. With the help of developers from around the world, thousands of development hours have gone into making sure that this is the best version of OpenCart yet. OpenCart 2.0 is packed full of brand new features, including:..

The Beta version of OpenCart 2.0 is now available to download, and we can’t wait for you to try it. You can get involved and help us make OpenCart 2.0 even better by testing the OpenCart 2.0 Beta to find any final bugs or issues before its general release. Whether you’re a developer, a design..

When?  1st and 2nd of October 2014   Where?  West Hall, Olympia London Hammersmith Road London W14 8UX   Stand number: 208     We had so much fun at the eCommerce Expo in London last year that we have decided to return agai..

If you have ever arrived at a website from an advertisement or an email link, it’s extremely likely that you were taken to a landing page, rather than the website’s standard homepage. Landing pages are generally displayed when you click a link from an online advertisement, a search engine res..

It's finally done: you have a professional, responsive shop design and your product photographs and descriptions are looking fantastic. Your ecommerce store is now perfect, but... where are your customers? No matter how incredible your store is, without customers you won’t be able to turn your ..

For many shoppers, buying a product online can be a terrifying idea. I'm sure, like myself, you've all had that heart-sinking feeling when your order arrives and it's completely different to how you imagined it to be. Along with your product photographs, your product descriptions are the only gli..

We've been working on a few improvements and features to the main OpenCart.com site that we hope will improve everyone's experience. 1. Changing to HTML based emails. It's been a long time since the emails have been looked at, although most people would think it is a small change - we send ou..