Internet Retailer magazine reports that the Texas Comptroller’s Office has billed Amazon.com Inc. for $269 million in uncollected sales tax. The tax bill is to account for the sales to Texas residents from December 2005 to December 2009. And this tax is applicable because Amazon runs a distribution center…
Life is full of choices. Every time you buy something, you are offered a set of options to choose from. Small, Medium, Large? Red, Blue or Green? For certain purchases – clothing for example – being able to buy the same item in different sizes and different colors…
via 37signals Many times the reasons we don’t start something have nothing to do with lack of skills, materials, or facilities. The real blockers are self-criticism and excuses. We all draw as kids but around adolescence, many of us stop developing that ability. The beginning of adolescence seems to…
This morning, Jonathan of 37signals posted an example of a follow-up email from an e-commerce merchant after the order has been shipped. Please read the reader comments on that article for more ideas.
Companies that have physical stores, online stores, and catalogs have quite a bit of order management to take care of. According to this McKinsey report on multi-channel retailing consumers who shop across a number of channels—physical stores, the Internet, and catalogs—spend about four times more annually than those…
Just like everything else with the IRS, sales tax calculation can be a nightmare, particularly for ecommerce merchants. Sales tax numbers vary by zip code and change frequently. Fortunately, most shopping cart packages already have built-in sales tax calculators. When the customer places an order on your website,…
What do you do when you see a dialog box with a long text of instructions? We have all experienced this before. And usually, the long text is followed with two buttons – “Ok”, “Cancel” You have very likely encountered a UI like the one above. The plain…
I found this cool website today. Unsuck It. It converts corporate speak into plain English. Here are a few gems – Blue-Sky Thinking : Using your imagination Boil the Ocean : Waste time We can’t boil the ocean, so let’s start by bucketizing the deliverables and picking the…
The Ordoro features page is now live! Please visit the page to see the list of features that we offer in our beta version. The page also has a 60-second overview of how Ordoro can help ecommerce businesses. The current page layout has four sections (one for each…