There are multiple articles naming the best e-commerce sites based on the opinions of professional designers or e-commerce specialists. However, the only opinions that do really matter are those of your buyers. We asked people who shop online what the [...]
With the rise of “Cloud Computing” over the last several years, more and more companies are looking to leverage virtual machines or cloud services in their IT infrastructure. Aside from the hype, cloud services and VMs can provide some real-world [...]
2012 has been another amazing year for Spark::red ATG Oracle Commerce Hosting! We’ve more than doubled the number of happy clients we host, including multiple international clients, and several clients on the IR500 and/or Fortune 1000 lists We’ve opened a [...]
Abandoned Order Services Module allows Oracle/ATG Web Commerce to detect, respond to, report on abandoned orders and related activity, whereby e-commerce businesses can analyze and improve shopping cart abandonment rate. 1. In order to get customized shopping cart abandonment [...]
According to 16 different studies 66.47% is the average shopping cart abandonment rate for e-commerce websites. In order to have more completed purchases than an average online store (I assume that is your goal) there are 2 tactics you should use: [...]
Oracle/ATG Web Commerce has a wide range of pricing features that allow you to provide user behavior-based pricing, dynamic and static pricing, easy integration with the most popular payment and tax-calculating software, multiple pricing methods and much more. Take a [...]
You probably know that ATG Commerce offers a wide range of pricing features for eCommerce stores through its Pricing Services. How does it do it? The short answer is through Pricing Engines and Calculators. Lets take a look at the [...]
In August-September 2012 Spark::red conducted a survey on online shopping behavior. During the survey 252 grad students and recent college graduates between the ages of 20-30 shared their shopping plans for the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season. 3/4 [...]
BOSTON, MA - October 01, 2012 - Spark::red started offering New Relic™ as a part of its Spark::red™ Oracle ATG Commerce Solution. New Relic web monitoring tool provides an innovative solution, merging end user performance and satisfaction monitoring, tied to [...]
For many e-commerce sites reducing the abandonment rate of the checkout flow will have a substantial impact on sales. There are many factors which contribute to the typically high levels of cart abandonment beyond the price of the cart contents. [...]