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As you probably know the 2014 holiday season is expected to be one of the biggest online holiday seasons in history. Online sales alone are forecast to jump 11% over last year to as much as $105 billion..

Don’t miss out on your opportunity to be a part of the eCommerce boom, you’ve already taken the first step by joining the 3dCart family.

Now we’re going to sweeten the pot just a bit with a few Black Friday Blowout Specials just for you.

Launched in 1997, 3dCart, located in Tamarac, FL was recently named on the Florida's "Companies to Watch" list, developed by the Edward Lowe Foundation as a unique way to recognize and honor second-stage companies that demonstrate high performance in the marketplace with innovative strategies and processes, making them “worth watching”. In order to determine the top 50 companies to be recognized, judges from the University of Central Florida, Economic development organizations throughout the[...]

It goes by several names - All Hallows' Eve, Witches Night, Samhaim, Summer’s End - but we like to call it Halloween.

It's final. It's spectacular. It's live!

We’re excited about the changes we’re making at 3dcart University!

In our continuing effort to make your e-commerce experience as exciting and fun for you as it is for us, our new articles focus on details—on the specifics of how you have to think about your online store to be successful. When you have the momentum of a big-picture vision, you don’t want the little things to trip you up.

One thing is for certain at 3dcart, we love our customers!  Sometimes we get lucky enough to meet our clients, and we hope that someday we get to meet everyone.  Mike Morgan or Director of Customer Success finally had his life long dream come true at IRCE last month.  He finally got to meet Mitch from Windy City Parrot.  Can you see the excitement on Mike's face!  Sometimes dreams do come true!

3dcart wishes each and every one of our Canadian friends a very happy Canada Day!  We wish the very best to our over 1000 Canadian merchants such as Robert King at heavyweights.ca and Jamie and Patrick at shopmasc.com to Canada Post and First Data Canada.  Happy Canada Day!

Today, we officially announce the release of 3dcart's 6.3 version with new features and upgrades for our merchants who wish to integrate his or her store with eBay and specifically the integration of UK's Royal Mail and Parcel Force. This is the 3rd version release for 2014. The 2 previous releases included, HTML5 Responsive Themes in beta, Amazon Product Ads automated feed, payments with Checkout By Amazon for US, UK and DE merchants, and multiple SEO built-in features like the rel="next" and[...]

This month in 3dcart University we focus on designing the highest quality homepages, building your visual and blog site content, and how to handle a myriad of settings on your website. In marketing, we discuss exploiting the latest available tool in your e-marketing toolkit without alienating the customers you most desire.

Our designers go by-the-numbers with a series of articles to keep you thinking about customer retention and site content.

We know you have many questions about how best to utilize 3dcart’s software to build your business. That’s why we created 3dcart University. Within our many practical articles and how-to tutorials you will find realistic step-by-step instruction to take you to the top of the e-commerce class! We work tirelessly to be your partner in building your online presence, and your business.

By now, you've probably read in the news, or heard across the wire that the newest security bug code named "Heartbleed" has been spreading across the web for some time now, and has just been recently identified.  Since 3dcart is Level 1 PCI compliant, we have one of the most secure shopping cart platforms in existence today.  To learn more about how 3dcart protects your data, you can read more about our PCI Compliance.

Heartbleed is a flaw in the OpenSSL protocol (which is not used by 3dcart).[...]

Part of our responsibility as your eCommerce software provider is to adapt with the times and evolve when necessary. Not only do we, as a company, recognize this fact, we constantly commit ourselves to staying one step ahead of the technology curve. This leads to the creation and optimization of new and existing features as well as the overall enhancement of our software so it can become better, faster and easier to use. With that in mind, it is with great pleasure that we announce today the[...]

If you're a Canadian e-merchant and love your 3dcart store, then perk up and pay attention because this one’s for you.