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Blogs: Ecommerce

Do I need to pay the Data Protection Fee to the ICO? Following the introduction of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, many clients have been asking, "Do I need to pay the Data Protection Fee to the ICO?"Firstly - some of our clients have received an email from the ICO and have considered it a scam - undoubtedly, there will be some scams out th...Read more...
Adding a dynamic countdown timer to a newsletter Displaying a dynamic countdown timer inside an email or newsletter was previously considered impossible. This is because most web countdown timers require server-side input or client-side Javascript to function. But having found a solution, and a free solution at that - I felt compelled to add this ...Read more...
3D Secure 2.0 From September 2019, most e-commerce payments must change to comply with a new Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) requirement. The Card Schemes (Mastercard, Visa, etc.) introduced a new authentication protocol called 3D Secure 2 (3DS v2) to enforce this. In a nutshell, payment providers such as G...Read more...
Why a Bespoke Website? The internet's most influential and profitable e-commerce systems are often bespoke e-commerce systems. Custom e-commerce websites acknowledge that no two businesses are identical and that a 'one size fits all' approach doesn't work. The services or functionality considered essential for one company...Read more...
PayPal Versus SagePay We know many people starting in Ecommerce use PayPal as their payment gateway. However, our recent experience suggests that this may not be the most efficient way of converting browsers into buyers. The Website we looked at was initially set up with PayPal. After the shopping basket, the client was...Read more...