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Maximizing TikTok Ads with UltraCart

TikTok has rapidly become one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, drawing over 1 billion monthly active users, particularly from the Gen Z an...

Webinar - Boosting AOV With Upsells

In this webinar, we discuss the various ways Ultracart makes upsells easy and customizable for merchants. We'll demonstrate how to offer customers new and in...

Staffing and Interaction Tips for UltraCart Conversations

UltraCart Conversations equips your business with tools to enhance customer interactions and streamline communication. In this article, we’ll cover how to op...

Unlocking the Power of SMS Communication

Dive into the key benefits of adding SMS communication to your eCommerce strategy and then explore how simple it is to implement within UltraCart.

Webinar - Leveraging UltraCart's Integration with Google BigQuery for Advanced eCommerce Analytics

Dive into the transformative power of integrating UltraCart's platform with Google BigQuery. This partnership enables merchants of all sizes to access enterp...

Encouraging Post-Purchase Reviews With Flows

Encouraging customers to write reviews after a purchase is a powerful tactic to build trust, enhance product offerings, and boost customer loyalty. Reviews p...

Enhancing Customer Engagement: How to Add a Survey to Your UltraCart StoreFront

In today’s competitive eCommerce landscape, understanding your customers' needs and preferences is crucial for success. One effective way to gain these insig...

UltraCart Platform Updates | July 2024

The June update includes various enhancements to Configurations, Integrations, StoreFronts, REST API, Operations and Reporting.

Webinar - Frictionless Checkouts & Smart Upsells: Maximizing Conversions & AOV

Single-Page Checkouts: Best Practices, Key Elements of Enhanced Checkout, Its all About Mobile, Reducing Friction and Abandonment, Increasing Average Order V...

A/B Test Content in Your StoreFront with UltraCart Experiments

By implementing A/B testing with UltraCart's Experiment component, you can optimize your StoreFront's content, improving user engagement and boosting sales. ...

Boost Your Sales with UltraCart's Abandoned Cart Flow

One of the most effective ways to improve your sales is with abandoned cart flows! Automatically send reminders to customers who leave items in their cart wi...

Control Content Display and Access Based on User Location

By effectively using HideIf and ShowIf components, you can ensure a seamless user experience while complying with regional restrictions. This setup not only ...

UltraCart Platform Updates | June 2024

The June update includes various enhancements to Storefronts, Integrations, Marketing, Order Management, Reporting, Payments and the REST API

Simplify Your Ecommerce Marketing with UltraCart

Effective communication and marketing are pivotal for ecommerce success, and UltraCart offers robust tools to help you achieve this—all without needing to si...

Adjusting The Ecommerce Storefront For Tablet Users

The surge in tablet popularity has significantly altered consumer behavior, prompting many online merchants to adapt their eCommerce storefronts accordingly....

UltraCart Platform Updates | May 2024

Platform Updates for May 2024 include updates to the Task Management Platform, StoreFronts, Order Management, the Rest API, Reporting, Integrations, The Data...

UltraCart Platform Updates | April 2024

Platform Updates for April 2024 include updates to the StoreFronts, Analytics and Reporting, Order Management, the Rest API, Integrations, Configurations the...

UltraCart Platform Updates | March 2024

Roll out of the New Task Management Platform, Updates to general Configurations, Integrations, Order Management, The REST API, StoreFronts and Reporting.

UltraCart Platform Updates | February 2024

Updates to Integrations, Item Management, Order Management, StoreFronts, Checkout, General Backend Enhancements, Data and Analytics and the REST API

UltraCart Platform Updates | January 2024

Updates to Integrations, Item Management, Order Management, REST API, StoreFronts, General Configuration and the Data Warehouse.

UltraCart Platform Updates | December 2023

The December update includes various enhancements to Storefronts, Integrations, Items and Orders, the REST API and webhooks

UltraCart Platform Updates | November 2023

The November Update includes various enhancements and updates to StoreFronts, General Platform configuration, Conversations, Data Warehouse, Integrations, It...

What IS SSL Authentication, Why Every Shopping Site Should Have One

For online retailers whose brands may not be as far reaching as the nationals, creating immediate trust is often the difference between clicking on a product...

eCommerce Product Descriptions That Sell, Sell, Sell...

Even in the days of massive retail sites with thousands of products that are often "bulk uploaded" from a database, product descriptions are still a critical...

What Is Fulfillment And How It Can Make Or Break An eCommerce Effort

If you're asking "what is fulfillment" and you are either an existing online merchant, or thinking about it, you may be facing a variety of situations. Read ...

What Is eCommerce's Best "Must Win" Strategy?

The growth in online sales continues to attract more entrants to the segment. But as with any enterprise, there are keys to making sure that the effort is a ...

What Is Affiliate Management For The eCommerce Merchant?

By 2014 the affiliate channel is projected to reach $4 billion. What is affiliate growth attributed to Many online merchants who have taken advantage of this...

Social eCommerce Strategies: Turning "Likes" Into An eCommerce Livelyhood

Embracing social media eCommerce and maximizing its advertising potential can catapult a business to financial success. With popular websites like Facebook a...

What Online Merchants Need To Do Before Shopping Cart Setup

With Americans spending nearly $31 billion dollars online during last year's holiday shopping season, many new ecommerce retailers are eager to solidify thei...

Copy And Image Procurement/Development For Online Shopping Cart Modules

Attractive photos and compelling product descriptions are critical components of your shopping cart module, and can make a drastic difference to your convers...

Shopping Cart Email Marketing: High Return On Investment- If It's Done Correctly

There's very few marketing approaches for online retailers as effective and cheap as email marketing. Shopping carts and e-mail marketing go together, but ma...

How Often Do You Lose Customers Because Of A Shopping Cart's Design?

Shopping cart design, a topic that seems to have a million answers, so which way do you go?

For many merchants, designing the shopping cart portion of ...

Interested In Free Traffic From A Good eCommerce SEO Effort?

eCommerce SEO is not easy. Most merchants focus on their product listings, which of course is where the sales (or conversions) are. But for those who are tru...

Making Sure You Have The World's Ultimate SEO Shopping Cart

For many merchants, organic listings of their products are a gift from the gods, but perhaps just as elusive. Retailers often have a hard time achieving top ran...

Navigating The eCommerce Giant: How To Sell on Amazon

Hosting over 1.5 million visitors a day, Amazon.com has developed so formidable an ecommerce presence that it effectively absorbs its competition, trading hi...

Riding The Latest Social Media Wave: Pinterest eCommerce Marketing Strategies

Pinterest has rapidly turned into the next ecommerce playground.

How to Boost Your Ecommerce Marketing By Selling An E-book

There are extraordinary revenue and ecommerce marketing opportunities in the E-reader market with the growing ad option of E-readers and tablet computers suc...

Capitalizing On Online Shopping Behavior Trends

On average, 71% of shopping carts are abandoned. This observation is the chief concern among ecommerce retailers. But progressive online merchants and those ...

Mobile Shopping Carts: They're Not Just For Early Adopters Anymore

Mobile devices boast the ability to keep people and their ideas connected. This promise has enticed millions of people each year to revere these devices as e...

Where To Start If You Want To Be An Affilate Marketer In The Retail Sphere

Affiliate websites are often categorized by merchants (advertisers) and affiliate networks. There are currently no industry-wide standards for the categoriza...

Rethinking the Product Pitch: Ecommerce Video That Sells

Video possesses unique social and persuasive powers. One Egyptian activist noted this power during the country's revolution in March of 2011: "We use Faceboo...

eCommerce Report: Identifying and Integrating Major Growth Factors

According to an ecommerce report released by the Virginia-based research firm ComScore, ecommerce spending rose 14% in the fourth quarter of 2011. U.S. onlin...

Building eCommerce Success: Understanding Conversion Rates

Online merchants evaluate their ecommerce success with a flood of data recorded online. While the internet's impressive tracking abilities simplify data coll...

Fixing Typical Ecommerce Problems

eCommerce opens up the smallest business to the global market. The prospects excite entrepreneurs who dream of maximizing their companies' exposure. But it t...

eCommerce Design Tips: Shopping Carts That Entice Visitors To Buy

Today's ecommerce market provides a wide selection of goods and services. Unless an ecommere merchant has the benefit of an established brand presence, their...

Assessing The Market Size/Potential For An Ecommerce Website Product/Service

If you run (or are thinking about running) an eCommerce website that has the option of offering new products, there is always the question of which ones will...

Ecommerce Advertising

For online businesses first engaging in ecommerce advertising, the options may seem daunting. eCommerce advertising on the web implements a variety of marke...

How to Simplify Ecommerce Credit Card Processing

The majority of online customers want to use credit cards on the e-commerce sites they visit. Online merchants typically need to provide a simple credit card...

Selling Digital Assets Using A Digital Download Shopping Cart

Whether you are now selling digital media or not, the advantages of either doing it exclusively or even adding it to a physical product line are big.

Ecommerce Shipping Secrets Every Online Merchant Should Know

Everyone dislikes shipping costs. Customers dislike it. Companies dislike it. Despite rising postal prices, most consumers expect shipping discounts or promo...