VP-ASP Blog by Cam Flanigan

Cam Flanigan
Product Guru, VP-ASP Cart
Cam has been leading VP-ASP Cart development for over 10 years.

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A sad day for VPASP

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Hi everyone, Many of you will still remember Howard Kadetz, the original developer of VPASP, and anyone who has worked with HKProg he was the owner there after he left VPASP. Sadly Howard has passed away and will be leaving a very big hole in the VPASP community. I have worked with Howard s ... More!

Mobile Commerce and VPASP

Monday, January 30, 2012

Hi everyone, The good news is we finally have a new mobile storefront available called, creatively, VPASP Mobile. You can now have your VPASP store display correctly no matter what device your customers are using to access your site. The bad news, well, not strictly speaking ba ... More!

Merry Christmas from VPASP

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Hi everyone, I hope you have all had a great year and that next year is even better. I had a laugh before as one of our customers has put together a little Xmas card for me: http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/O1NJwXCCS1Y7ofOK What makes it funnier is I onl ... More!

New Integrations and Modules - Mobile Commerce is here at last!

Friday, December 16, 2011

Well, things are slowly winding down here after a brutally busy couple of months. This years lead up to Xmas seemed to be quite manic. Not sure if this is just due to the fact that we are busier or that everyone is that little bit keener to ensure everything is perfect on their sites in the lead up ... More!

Timely reminder on keeping your sites updated

Thursday, December 8, 2011

We have had a report from one of our partners, Simon Barnaby from Big Yellow Zone, that he came across a hacked site yesterdy. The reason is that even though the site had been patched a search was not made for hacker files that were uploaded before the patch was applied. Security, espe ... More!

PaymentSense and VPASP unite

Thursday, November 24, 2011

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Add text into your QR Code

Monday, November 7, 2011

Following on from yesterdays post I have had a bit more fun with this and found another site that allows you to add a word into the QR code. The site is http://mojiq.kazina.com/ If anyone is already using QR codes in your marketing it would be great to get some feed ... More!

QR Codes are very interesting

Monday, November 7, 2011

Hi everyone, I was having a read of a newsletter I get this week and it was talking about QR codes for mobile. These are very interesting and useful little things! You probably know this already but you can actually using a QR code create a link to place ... More!

Security Patch released for SQL Server issue

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Hi all, We have released a patch for a security issue alerted to us by one of our development partners, Chris Wood. This is a serious update and needs to be applied ASAP if you are using SQL Server and have not renamed your admin folder. I strongly r ... More!

VPASP goes PCI with AuthorizeNet

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Exciting news peeps! VPASP merchants now can be PCI compliant when they use the new AuthorizeNet DPM system. This new interface allows merchants to take credit cards directly on their site and be PCI compliant. This removes massive headaches for the merchant while allowing the merchant to p ... More!

Hack attacks on big corporates include UPS

Monday, September 5, 2011

Wow! I imagine a lot of you have heard about the hack attacks carried out on some of the big web sites recently. The one that has really affected VPASP customers and shopping cart merchants from across the board is the hit on UPS. Basically hackers redirected the DNS for certai ... More!

Reach out to your customers using Campaign Monitor and VPASP

Monday, August 8, 2011

Hi everyone, We have now released our much awaited integration to Campaign Monitor! Who are Campaign Monitor you ask? Put simply, and this is only my opinion mind you, they are one of the best newsletter marketing generation systems out there ... More!

PayPal Survey 2011 - Earn $100 USD!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Hey folks, Have a great one for you this month. Want to earn $100 USD for just answering some market research queries? PayPal are researching how merchants find their on-boarding experience and are looking for new sign ups from amongst VP-ASP Shopping Cart customers to survey . So if y ... More!

Continuing our partnership push VPASP now supports OLARK Live Chat

Thursday, May 26, 2011

VPASP Shopping Cart now supports Olark - a live chat system that is very easy to install on your web site. Olark is a service that provides real time chat and monitoring of your website visitors through Google Talk and Jabber; it takes 10 seconds to set up your preferred IM client with Ol ... More!

VPASP partners with Gate2Shop

Thursday, May 19, 2011

We now have a new alternative for companies looking for a gateway provider that will help them reach customers worldwide. VP-ASP Shopping Cart now partners with Gate2Shop, a leading UK payment gateway provider. Gate2Shop are a fully PCI certified payment solution. Gate2Shop (www.g2s.com) is ... More!

Go Social with VPASP and FaceBook and sell on FaceBook

Friday, April 22, 2011

There was a great post on our forum recently about how to set up an online store in FaceBook. FaceBook are releasing some awesome tools and the latest one is the ability to call an outside store using an iframe. In the forum post the team discuss how to set up an online store in FaceBook incre ... More!

Some great feedback re VPASP support team

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

We recently surveyed our customers and had some amazing feedback about the job we are doing and also some great ideas for future updates and versions. A couple of posts on our forum can be seen at: "Thanks for excellent support" "Very impressed" "The best" ... More!

How to include UPC to Google Product Feed

Monday, April 4, 2011

Google is shortly going to be changing their product feed requirements so we have created a helpnote on how to change the SEO Toolkit to ensure everyone is covered for when this goes live. How to include UPC to Google Product Feed Basically by default we send the catalogid as the UPC. The h ... More!

We now support the Fanapay payment gateway for Arabic storefronts

Monday, April 4, 2011

Hi everyone, We are now moving into a new region with our new support for the Fanapay payment gateway service. Fanapay provides payment gateways to Arabic ecommerce storefront owners. Combined with our new Arabic langua ... More!

How to set up promotional products and upload logos when ordering

Monday, March 28, 2011

Hi everyone, As an example I have added a new category and 3 new sample products to our online demo. A lot of our customers e-commerce sites are promotional and branding sites. So for example you can select a pen or a mug or an item of clothing and apply your own text and l ... More!

VP-ASP now translated into Polish!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Some new exciting news just out. Our new Polish partners, iBloge, from Poland have kindly translated VP-ASP into Polish adding yet another language to our selection. This brings the total languages VP-ASP has been translated into to over 20. If you want to either add the Polish language pac ... More!

VPASP partners with CartPSan to integrate to PeachTree

Monday, February 21, 2011

VP-ASP Cart now integrates with PeachTree Accounting system through a partnership with CartSpan. We have been working with CartSpan for the past few weeks and it has been a great experience actually. CartSpan have been extremely professional and as an added bonus were able to provide some grea ... More!

Where is Frankie?

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Hi everyone, Some sad news this week. As anyone who has worked with VPASP over the last 3 years will know Frankie T. is one of our stalwarts. Sadly this week one of his kidneys failed and he has been rushed to hospital to find out why and what is going on. We are waiting ... More!

Time to vote! Help VPASP grow by voting today

Friday, January 28, 2011

Hi everyone, The open source awards are here and it would be great if you could jump on and vote for us here at VPASP http://www.osc-awards.com If you just enter VPASP as the cart and then select your choice from the 10 questions you never know, mayb ... More!

PayPoint and VPASP partner to offer recurring billing through tokens

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Hi everyone, This is a bit exciting. We have just completed a project for a customer that offers true recurring billing controlled via the shopping cart through tokens. PayPoint, UK payment gateway, offer tokens as part of their features which allow the customers credit cards to be sto ... More!

Having trouble controlling your image sizes so they are consistent?

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

We have had a number of people drop into the helpdesk asking about this one so I thought it was time for a faq to be created on how to make your product image sizes consistent throughout your shopping cart storefront. Ensuring your customers have a pleasant time while in your store ... More!

How to write good copy for your site

Monday, January 17, 2011

Hi all, I received an interesting email about copy writing for web sites and I thought I would share some of the information and links in it as it is as vital for us, VPASP as it is you, the shopping cart store owners, to have good copy on our sites to keep our sites alive, vital and interesting. ... More!

How to add Facebook Like app into your VPASP site

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

I stumbled across a new VP-ASP Cart site this week that had a great new feature added. It was the FaceBook like module and as I had not seen this in a VPASP site before I decided to look a little deeper. The site was http://www.metalscooters.com.au/ Viewing the source I saw the FaceBo ... More!

Double Byte Languages now fully supported

Sunday, October 3, 2010

With the release of the Update Pac for Version 7.0 we now fully support out of the box double byte languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Russian, Greek and Hebrew.The issue in the past was how VPASP worked with UTF8. We have now resolved this so VPASP 7.01 is now fully compliant with ... More!

Update Pac for Version 7.0 goes live!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

We have at long last released the Update Pac 1 for Version 7.0.Unlike our normal licensing all VP-ASP 7.0 users will be able to download the Update Pac so even if you are out of your normal 12 month free upgrade period don't worry!You can still download the Update Pac 1 from our site.Based o ... More!

Security Update for VPASP 7

Sunday, September 5, 2010

A customer has alerted us to a vulnerability in VP-ASP Cart 7.0 where a XSS attack could take place.We strongly recommend everyone apply these updates to your version 7.0 storefront if the version date is earlier than 4th of September 2010.There are 2 very easy to apply updates and you can have t ... More!

PayPal offers Aussie and Kiwi VPASP users great bonus

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Hi everyone,I was at the Internet Retailers trade show in Sydney, Australia in July and met up with Richard Brock from PayPal while there.After a good chat about the Australian market and where it is going Richard suggested a joint bonus offering to Aussie and Kiwi VPASP merchants.The Aussie and K ... More!

TYNT Insight - Interesting concept

Thursday, August 12, 2010

A colleague sent through this link today asking if I thought our customers would be interested.http://www.tynt.com/I watched the video on the home page and it looks pretty funky actually.I can definitely see how something like this would be useful for an online store front.What do you think? If ... More!

Creating VPASP Cart training videos

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I have been creating some training videos and have been getting used to how a program called Camtasia works. All of our video tutorials are available on our web site.Very slick product by the way. Makes it very easy to create screen videos of your desktop. And funny enough when we purchased the l ... More!

Looking for beta testers for QuickBooks module

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hi everyone,We are currently wrapping up the module for the updated VP-ASP Cart to QuickBooks module from T-Hub.So we can finalise the new module we are looking for beta testers to put their toes in the water.You must currently use QuickBooks, T-Hub and VP-ASP Cart to be able to join in the beta pro ... More!

Online fraud and how to beat it

Monday, June 7, 2010

Fraudsters are making the internet a sometimes dirty place to shop.We continually hear of ecommerce merchants being hit with chargebacks. We ourselves even get hit as well on occasion.Everyone has their own way of verifying orders and once you have been trading for awhile you do start to get a ... More!

New online shopping cart template

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

We have put together a new template which will be released shortly.http://petstore700.vpasp.com/default.aspBefore we go live with the new ecommerce template it would be great to get any feedback.I have added the new Twitter feed feature to the right column in the template so you can see how this ... More!

Using different languages with online shopping carts

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Hi all,Today I have been playing with the new VP-Cart 7.0 Russian language pac created for us by Alex Redin. (thanks Alex by the way!). Last week I was playing with the new Hebrew version.I have been doing general testing of the new changes for double byte languages and am so far really pleased with ... More!

Videos and VP-ASP Shopping Cart

Thursday, May 20, 2010

We are looking at integrating a video solution into VPASP for our customers. Has anyone out there thought about this? Are you doing it already?I just found a very interesting post at Practical Ecommerce about this topic.http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1909-4-Video-Sourcing-Methods-Pr ... More!

More on PCI

Sunday, May 2, 2010

It seems PCI is being talked about more and more and this isn't really surprising as it will shortly affect all online merchants and also companies like us who provide the tools for you to sell online.We have recently had an interesting chat with a couple of different gateway providers who ... More!

Double Byte Language issue solved!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

It has been a long time coming but we have finally solved the issues when running your store using a double byte character language!Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Russian etc are all double byte languages.The characters used are not the standard characters used by for example Englis ... More!

PCI and compliance issues

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

PCI. Who would think 3 letters could strike such fear into so many merchants. As many of you or maybe only a few of you know PCI compliance becomes mandatory in July 2010.How will this impact on you? If you are already using a PCI compliant gateway and are sending your customers to the payment gatew ... More!

VP-ASP Blogs go live

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Well, I don't know how regular I will be posting here but hopefully it will be a fairly regular process.What I am going to be posting will be views on interesting forum posts, news and hopefully interesting activities that are happening here at VP-ASP.I will also be chatting about PCI issues ... More!

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