How Important is Inventory Integration?

By Ruth Richter • September 25, 2019

Perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of shopping online is the ability to search for precisely the item needed (or wanted) and purchase it. What the shopper doesn’t know is that their ability to do so is fueled by the ecommerce platform’s inventory management...

How 3 Printer Supply Companies Leverage IN-SYNCH to Print Success

By Ruth Richter • September 18, 2019

Despite the many predictions of moving to a paperless society, printing documents is still a common—and sometimes vital—practice in the workplace. In fact, the average office worker prints an average of 10,000 pages per year. This all adds up, with office printing averaging up to...

Accept Ecommerce Credit Card Payments with These 4 Steps

By Ruth Richter • September 11, 2019

With the popularity of PayPal and Apple Pay, it’s becoming less and less likely for Americans to carry cash in their wallets. In fact, CNBC found that approximately 3 in 10 adults do not use cash at all for purchases, and those who do carry...

Sales Tax: Out of State, Out of Mind? Not Anymore.

By Ruth Richter • September 04, 2019

Now may not be the time when most Americans are thinking about state taxes, but ever since the Supreme Court overturned Quill v. North Dakota last June, retailers have been sweating state sales tax. Before online sales became quite as prevalent as they are now,...

Keeping your Ecommerce from Becoming a Four-Alarm Fire

By Ruth Richter • August 21, 2019

No matter how long you’ve been in the workforce, almost everyone remembers learning the basic “Stop, Drop, and Roll” fire safety tip as a kid. Fire and safety precautions in the working world might be a little more complex—protective gear, eye washes, sprinkler systems, and...

4 Hot Tips for Adding Voice-Search to Your Ecommerce Site

By Ruth Richter • August 14, 2019

Despite the news reports that Google and Amazon do record smart speaker conversations—sometimes whether or not the “hey Google” or “hey Alexa” trigger words have been uttered—and have a team of humans reviewing them, these devices continue to grow in popularity. In fact, in early...

How to Lay a Successful Foundation for Multiple Online Storefronts

By Ruth Richter • August 07, 2019

If one of the big ideas behind ecommerce is to simplify how you sell your products to customers, you might wonder why in the world anyone would want to make their ecommerce more complicated by running multiple online storefronts. There are actually several valid reasons...

Does Your Ecommerce Host Choice Really Make a Difference?

By Ruth Richter • July 31, 2019

The shopping experience continues to change, and online shopping has grown from a little-used novelty to an everyday occurrence that is impossible to ignore. In fact, 96 percent of Americans have made an online purchase in their lifetime. Eighty percent made one in the last...

Beating the Intercompany Accounting Blues

By Ruth Richter • July 24, 2019

If you’ve ever been out to dinner with family and tried to split the bill among family members, you’ve probably gotten a very good—and unintentional—look at the complexities of intercompany accounting. Whether your family puts everything on one check and sends cash to each other...