By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:
E-commerce company Shopify.com is challenging small and medium sized businesses to become online entrepreneurs. Shopify.com is sponsoring a contest to build the most successful e-commerce site and offering a prize of $100,000 as an incentive to do so.
Ottawa-based Shopify.com launched in 2006. Shopify is a hosted ecommerce solution with integrated payments. People who sell stuff online, or want to, can set up a store in moments, add items to sell, upload images, add tags and group items, and integrate paypal or a credit card processor for payments. Reporting is excellent, and they’ve included a RSS feed of recent orders to keep track of sales.
When you start building your Shopify store you have the choice of many beautiful professional themes. You can use your own HTML and CSS and have complete control over the look and feel of your online store. Your online store will have its own shopping cart and streamlined checkout.
You can try Shopify fee for 30 days. The pricing model ranges from $24 per month for the “basic” service to $699 for the “premier” service. The variations in price are based on transaction fees, maximum SKUs, adwords credit and storage.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:
Outright.com recently announced that Xpenser.com, the online service that tracks expenses via mobile devices—e-mail, SMS, Twitter, IM, or voice, will integrate with Outright.com. The new feature went live October 8, 2009.
This announcement follows Outright’s newest integrations with PayPal, Expensify and eBay, which were announced the previous week and is the latest development in Outright’s desire to serve small businesses. Their goal is to make financial management simpler and faster so sole proprietors can spend more time growing their business and less time on their back office.
Xspenser.com lets you record expenses via whatever means are available to you for free. They can be sent in via Email, SMS, Twitter, IM or voice. For example, from your blackberry you could email “Lunch 80.00 with ABC client”. Then you use the Web interface to edit and finalize expenses or export them to your financial management software.
This integration is one of the many ways that Outright’s open API can sync up with other third parties to streamline the financial record keeping process for business owners.
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