Today is Saturday and I actually made some money using Paypal and OpenCart. Yes I know, looking at the screen shot it's not much so why am I so excited ? because Saturdays for some weird reason is usually my worst day for sales. I'm usually lucky if I gross $300 bucks in sales on a Saturday, but today I grossed $550 + in sales. Not bad by My standards but to some heavy hitters in online sales this is what I like to it call " monkey money " but hey I'll get to the heavy hitter stage soon. I have only been selling online now for under a year so this is good for one days work. What do I attribute the spike in sales to ? OpenCart I recently switched to OpenCart as My shopping cart and saw my sales shot up 28% over the last two weeks. The software is just very easy to use from the admin end and it's intuitive and well designed front end features encorage customers to buy. Using the products viewed tool I was able to spot an item that had the most views but no sales. I lowered the price and those product views started converting to sales.Paypal's reputation as an online ecommerce power house also helps to boost sales. At checkout time My customers have 3 different options in My store and 8 out 10 times the customers choose to pay via Paypal. If you don't use Paypal on your site I suggest you start right now because you are seriously short changing yourself and the growth of your online business.
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