E-Commerce News
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Running an online shop means keeping up with more than the shop itself. Payment providers change their requirements, search engines change how products are listed, and consumer law changes what you are allowed to do at checkout. This category covers the news that affects online retailers, with UK traders particularly in mind, and explains what each change means in practice.
Recent articles cover the pricing and checkout practices that are now illegal in the UK, getting products into Google Shopping, structured data for rich results, setting up PayPal's Commerce Platform, and the major CubeCart releases.
Our e-commerce pages cover the shopping carts we work with, including CubeCart, WooCommerce, Magento and OpenCart, and our payment gateways page covers the payment providers most UK stores choose between.
Accessibility for Online Shops: The Fixes That Matter Most
An accessible shop sells to more people, and the law increasingly expects it. The practical fixes that make the biggest difference, most of them quick to make.
CubeCart 6.8.2 and 6.8.3: When the Invoice Disagrees
Three CubeCart maintenance releases in eleven days, none with a security fix, but two of them correct invoices that disagreed with what the customer actually paid. Which orders to check, what else changed, and how urgently to take them.
Using Reviews in Your Online Store: Getting Them, Showing Them, Staying Legal
Reviews are the one thing on a product page customers actually believe. Here is how to ask for them properly, how to handle bad ones, and what the DMCC Act now requires of you.
CubeCart 6.8.1: The Fix Tax-Inclusive Stores Need
CubeCart 6.8.1 is a maintenance release, but one fix matters urgently to stores working in tax-inclusive prices: opening and saving an order in the admin panel could quietly inflate it. Which orders to check, plus bulk quantities, better search and two Atrium fixes.
CubeCart 6.7.4: Right of Withdrawal, CLI Cron and a Refactored REST API
CubeCart 6.7.4 added a statutory cancellation workflow for UK and EU merchants, a proper command line cron runner, and gzip compression of order baskets.
CubeCart 6.8.0: Atrium, the First New Skin Since Foundation
CubeCart 6.8.0 brings Atrium, a new default storefront skin, a stock audit log, verified reviews and confirmed sign-ups. What it changes and what to check.
CubeCart 6.7.0: Sales Reports, Email Overhaul and Audit Logging
CubeCart 6.7.0 added a full sales reporting suite, asynchronous email with open tracking, and an audit log. It also removed the in-app database backup tool and the cookie consent banner.
CubeCart 6.6.3: Argon2id Passwords, a Better Dashboard and Smarter Search
CubeCart 6.6.3 upgraded password hashing to Argon2id with transparent migration, overhauled the admin dashboard and made six improvements to Elasticsearch relevance.
Structured Data for E-Commerce: Getting Rich Results Right
Structured data tells search engines exactly what is on your page. It will not improve your rankings, but it is what puts prices, stock status and star ratings under your listing.
Getting Started with Google Shopping
A good share of Google Shopping is free, and the setup work is mostly getting your website and your feed right. What Google checks, what a feed needs, and why products get disapproved.
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