USPS real time rates are a feature that has been long desired, you can always pay a developer but here is a walk through. I was working on other projects and for a long time I had some issues with USPS’ API and it is because their testing server is not all that functional so after sending an email to USPS API support they put my user ID to the production server and I was getting rates! I have to give credit where credit is due and say that Mark Sanborn’s Blog helped me and gave me about 90% of the PHP code needed to get this feature working.

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I know it sounds odd, you are thinking that “I have email on my phone” and so do I. So why do I think this will help? If you are anything like me you hate notifications from your email when you get spam or mail that is not important to you, I have over 4 email accounts on my phone and some email addresses get hit with spam all day long but I want to get my new orders as soon as they come in. The solution is easy and anyone can do this!

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Google released Google +1 a few weeks ago and it is here to provide a type of “Social search” for any of your linked friends to your gmail account can see what you have “+1″ on a search and will display your name next to the search result page, check out http://www.google.com/+1/button/ for more info. today we would like to show you how to install the plus one on your yahoo store and align the button with Yahoo!’s social widget.

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Yahoo! recently released a new Feature to the Yahoo Store and Merchant Solutions called Social Share, This feature will add a Facebook Like button and a twitter share link for every product on your store. One issue, like every new feature, is if you have Custom templates in your store then you will have to make some RTML changes.  If you don’t have custom templates you can just turn it on and enjoy. I will be walking you through setting up the new SOCIAL-SHARE RTML operator.  Even if you don’t have custom templates I will also show you some nice CSS to add to your css-edits style sheet and get your social ON!

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Every year, the state you live in needs more money.  They tend to have funny ways of getting the funding they need.  For example, many states have a tax rate that changes with the county the customer is in or the item that is for sale. I am in no way a tax consultant and I live in a state that does not collect sales tax, making an article like this one that much more difficult to write.  I will attempt to show you the basics of setting up real time rates in a yahoo store using PHP, and you will be able to use this same script to set up tax rates by item type and or city and state.

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Another great post from Joshua Easy Page Level SEO for a Yahoo Store to help with some search engine placement.

So here we are again, last time I posted about jQuery in your Yahoo! store we added a quantity box, that seemed to work well, this time we are going to give  you a “You may also like:” cross sale in a Merchant Starter store. This will not auto populate but will make it so you can use the default Accessories area and change the text with JavaScript and not RTML.

Like with everything I post you will need to test it and make sure it works!

With this code and add-on you will need to pay attention to what I post, if you used the code from jQuery part 1 you will need to add the code where I tell you and if you did not use the code from part one you will just copy the code from here.

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Today we will be stepping away from RTML and doing some JavaScript coding with jQuery. As jQuery puts it on their home page “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript”

E-comm Solution loves to use jQuery libraries to build items into Yahoo Stores and WordPress Blogs.  We will be starting a small series to help you make changes in the store without the use of RTML, using JavaScript to help you out.  In this post, we will add a Quantity box to your store using copy and paste. Continue reading “Fun with jQuery in a Yahoo Store” »

We all need to take a time out every once in a while to look at our stores.  And we’re not talking about just browsing around and adding an item to the cart, but going to Google and searching for a product, then doing the same with Bing and Yahoo!; seeing how you rank and where you land on your site, then add the item to the cart.  But don’t stop there, find another item to add to the cart. After you check out and buy the item(s) I would like you to do the same thing with Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer so you know how your site appears in the 3 major browsers.

Next, make sure that you don’t have Summer specials on the home page or any page for that matter. Also check to make sure that you have your holiday specials ready, don’t publish anything yet but have a small list of item ID’s that you know you would like to post.

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It has been months since Yahoo! customer registration was announced on the Yahoo store blog and now, as of the 16th of August,  it is a live beta.  I, for one, am excited about this and the fact that it is a beta means that there is more in store for this awesome feature.  As of this write-up it supports some open ID platforms, such as Yahoo! Google and AOL. I am sure more are planned and I bet they will add a way to make your own ID.  Installation on a new store is easy as pie, so I will not cover that, but I am going to cover the HTML and RTML installations. Continue reading “Yahoo! Customer Registration” »