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Getting ready for Blackfriday

2018-08-23T07:53:01-06:00August 25th, 2017|

It is only 3 months until Black Friday in the US, which means it is time to start preparing for a lot of merchants. As the countdown to the biggest grossing holiday sale begins we have compiled a list of tips to help start your holiday shopping season with a bang. Let's make this year your best Black Friday ever!   Announce your sales Letting your shoppers know ahead of time about your sales is crucial. Most shoppers expect that there will be sales and love to know what is on sale and where it is on sale. Lots of shoppers [...]

E-commerce will change forever

2018-08-23T07:53:08-06:00August 18th, 2017|

Next month e-commerce will change forever thanks to Amazon. September 12 marks 20 years since Amazon filed for their 1-Click patent. This means that the patent will expire and the technology behind it will be free to be used by any e-commerce site. Starting next month more and more sites will be offering a one click checkout experience. Most major sites have already started development with plans to launch soon after the patent expires. History behind the patent Amazon applied for the 1-Click patent in September of 1997, the actual patent was granted in 1999. The whole idea behind the patent [...]

Google AMP is bad for E-commerce

2018-08-23T07:54:13-06:00August 16th, 2017|

If you are like most merchants you have at least considered using Google AMP on your website. If you are not yet familiar with AMP, it stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It is a Google service / project that allows you to create a mobile version of your site that is designed  to be quicker than a regular responsive mobile website. It does that by using a custom library of Google AMP JavaScripts and elements on the page. Sounds great, right? Not really from my point of view. Google and proponents of AMP would like you to think it is important [...]

Above the fold is a myth

2018-08-23T07:54:23-06:00August 14th, 2017|

For the last 20 years "Above the fold" has been pressed into the minds of web developers and designers, for no reason. There is no fold. There, I said it. In the words of Rick Sanchez "gotta rip that band-aid off now, you'll thank me for it later".  It is not the nineties anymore, so we need to stop designing sites for the nineties. In the early days of web design and mobile web design, designers and researchers were afraid that users would not know how to scroll down on a site or simply would not scroll down on a [...]

PageSpeed is dead

2018-08-23T07:54:45-06:00August 10th, 2017|

If you are like most shop owners or webmasters you have run the Google PageSpeed tool against your site. Sometimes the results are great, other times they are pretty dismal. Still developers are trying to appease the tool to get higher scores. In reality the scores that PageSpeed puts out are a bad metric to judge the speed of your site with. Let me show you why. Breakdown of a PageSpeed score The PageSpeed score is broken into two sections. The top section is what optimizations your site needs, and the bottom is the optimizations that have been found on your [...]

thirty bees in the future

2018-08-23T07:55:23-06:00August 2nd, 2017|

Are you wondering where thirty bees is going to go from here? Hey, so are we! We have been putting the pen to paper lately and coming up with a long term plan for the thirty bees software. As a merchant or developer it is rather precarious to depend on software, but have no idea of what the actual plans are. We here have been in that situation before and we have decided that we are not going to treat our community that way. We want to be upfront and transparent about the future as much as possible. So lets get [...]

thirty bees and PCI compliance

2018-08-23T07:55:29-06:00July 31st, 2017|

If you take payments online, security and PCI compliance are an issue for you. Keeping up with security for maintaining PCI compliance can be time consuming. Depending on how strict you have to comply, it could be something so difficult that you need an outside company to handle it as well. We at thirty bees take security seriously, PCI compliance is something we thought about early on. Hosting The first step in being PCI compliant is the hosting. You need to use a host that maintains the latest versions of the server software. Just like Windows needs periodic updates, your server [...]

Some updates

2018-08-23T07:55:35-06:00July 27th, 2017|

Todays blog post is going to be a rather short post to end a very busy week at thirty bees. Things have been growing exponentially and we have pretty cool announcements to make pretty soon too. As things are growing, we realize our community is growing as well. So we have created some new forums in more languages. The languages we have added are: Dutch French German Spanish Italian Now our users from all around the world can talk about thirty bees and get help in their native language. I also wanted to thank the community for growing with us and [...]

thirty bees partners with Cart2Cart

2018-08-23T07:56:10-06:00July 25th, 2017|

We have realized that if we want to grow our user base we need to have the ability to migrate merchants into thirty bees from other platforms. That is why we made the decision to partner with Cart2Cart to handle migrations from other platforms. They are the industry leader in shopping cart migrations. It was a no brainer to partner with them to grow the user base for thirty bees. What carts do they migrate? Cart2Cart has been in the e-commerce migration market longer than any other company. They have provided over 30,000 migrations since they started migrating e-commerce sites. Currently [...]

thirty bees partners with A2 Hosting

2018-08-23T07:56:16-06:00July 23rd, 2017|

We are proud to announce that we have partnered with A2 hosting as our North American hosting partner. If you are not familiar with A2 Hosting, they are one of the best optimized hosting services in the world. They have data center locations in The United States, Netherlands, and Singapore, making them a great choice to partner with. At the same time they offer parallel managed hosting support.   One of the biggest deciding factors to go with A2 Hosting is that we realize a lot of thirty bees shops are already hosted with them. This great for our existing users [...]

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