VP-ASP Blog by Cam Flanigan

Security Update for VPASP 7

Sunday, September 5, 2010

A customer has alerted us to a vulnerability in VP-ASP Cart 7.0 where a XSS attack could take place.We strongly recommend everyone apply these updates to your version 7.0 storefront if the version date is earlier than 4th of September 2010.There are 2 very easy to apply updates and you can have t ... More!


PayPal offers Aussie and Kiwi VPASP users great bonus

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Hi everyone,I was at the Internet Retailers trade show in Sydney, Australia in July and met up with Richard Brock from PayPal while there.After a good chat about the Australian market and where it is going Richard suggested a joint bonus offering to Aussie and Kiwi VPASP merchants.The Aussie and K ... More!


TYNT Insight - Interesting concept


Thursday, August 12, 2010

A colleague sent through this link today asking if I thought our customers would be interested.http://www.tynt.com/I watched the video on the home page and it looks pretty funky actually.I can definitely see how something like this would be useful for an online store front.What do you think? If ... More!


Creating VPASP Cart training videos

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

I have been creating some training videos and have been getting used to how a program called Camtasia works. All of our video tutorials are available on our web site.Very slick product by the way. Makes it very easy to create screen videos of your desktop. And funny enough when we purchased the l ... More!


Looking for beta testers for QuickBooks module

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hi everyone,We are currently wrapping up the module for the updated VP-ASP Cart to QuickBooks module from T-Hub.So we can finalise the new module we are looking for beta testers to put their toes in the water.You must currently use QuickBooks, T-Hub and VP-ASP Cart to be able to join in the beta pro ... More!


Online fraud and how to beat it

Monday, June 7, 2010

Fraudsters are making the internet a sometimes dirty place to shop.We continually hear of ecommerce merchants being hit with chargebacks. We ourselves even get hit as well on occasion.Everyone has their own way of verifying orders and once you have been trading for awhile you do start to get a ... More!


New online shopping cart template

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

We have put together a new template which will be released shortly.http://petstore700.vpasp.com/default.aspBefore we go live with the new ecommerce template it would be great to get any feedback.I have added the new Twitter feed feature to the right column in the template so you can see how this ... More!


Using different languages with online shopping carts

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Hi all,Today I have been playing with the new VP-Cart 7.0 Russian language pac created for us by Alex Redin. (thanks Alex by the way!). Last week I was playing with the new Hebrew version.I have been doing general testing of the new changes for double byte languages and am so far really pleased with ... More!


Videos and VP-ASP Shopping Cart

Thursday, May 20, 2010

We are looking at integrating a video solution into VPASP for our customers. Has anyone out there thought about this? Are you doing it already?I just found a very interesting post at Practical Ecommerce about this topic.http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1909-4-Video-Sourcing-Methods-Pr ... More!


More on PCI

Sunday, May 2, 2010

It seems PCI is being talked about more and more and this isn't really surprising as it will shortly affect all online merchants and also companies like us who provide the tools for you to sell online.We have recently had an interesting chat with a couple of different gateway providers who ... More!


Double Byte Language issue solved!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

It has been a long time coming but we have finally solved the issues when running your store using a double byte character language!Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Russian etc are all double byte languages.The characters used are not the standard characters used by for example Englis ... More!


PCI and compliance issues

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

PCI. Who would think 3 letters could strike such fear into so many merchants. As many of you or maybe only a few of you know PCI compliance becomes mandatory in July 2010.How will this impact on you? If you are already using a PCI compliant gateway and are sending your customers to the payment gatew ... More!


VP-ASP Blogs go live

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Well, I don't know how regular I will be posting here but hopefully it will be a fairly regular process.What I am going to be posting will be views on interesting forum posts, news and hopefully interesting activities that are happening here at VP-ASP.I will also be chatting about PCI issues ... More!


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