We simply can't fit everything we want into a single release.  Sometimes we have to remember that we're simply humans - just like you. It was a very short time span between 1.8.0 and today's 1.8.1 release because we already were hard at work on a few updates that just had to wait.  We think you'll like them.  Overall, 1.8.1 is a minor upgrade, but it packs a powerful performance and stability punch, along with some multi-lingual goodness for our friends overseas.

E-Commerce is still a very new thing when you think about it.  It may feel like it's been around forever, but if e-commerce were a child, we'd be just now teaching it how to be a gentleman or a lady, while at the same time preparing it to go to college.  E-Commerce isn't in it's infancy, but rather in it's adolescence.  We replaced training wheels for a bus pass only a couple of years ago.

Every year we do the same thing on this day.  We prepare for a fun night!  In addition, we all make our promises to ourselves to make one or many changes to improve ourselves.  It's becoming something of a joke among ourselves, but our annual resolutions often lead to great things, and can even inspire others to do the same.  We decided to take the lead on this and launch a release that will hopefully inspire you too!

Every year, it’s the same wonderful pattern of excitement and stress that we love to hate. Wedecorate our houses, offices, and trees. We go to company holiday parties. We make plans to see (or not see) family and friends. We decide what our budgets are and buy presents. Every year, one of these seemsto be shifting dramatically. Next year, will you be ready?

How do you create interest and trust in a product that someone can only see a picture of? For e-commerce retailers, customer reviews on their company website or social media pages has become a big part of answering this question.

As the e-commerce landscape continues to change and evolve, one of the biggest changes in recent year has been the explosion of online reviews.

With the Holiday season on our doorstep, online merchants are faced with a big decision this season: How can I increase revenue and customer loyalty? However, there is no need to panic.

The past few weeks have been a blur for us here at HotcakesCommerce for quite a few reasons… We were highly involved at DNNCon Palm Beach2014. It’s always great to participate with the DNNcommunity and this time we took it to a whole new level.

We didn't spend as much time whipping up this batch of Hotcakes as we have most of this year.  In fact, this is probably the shortest period of time between releases since January or maybe even 2013.  That doesn't mean that we didn't include more delicious features to help you, your clients, and your/their customers.  Our team has been hard at work on the features below, and more that have yet to be announced.

We will have plenty more details about how we will be at 

We have so many yummy updates that you are sure to enjoy. The highlights alone are enough to make thisbatch enough to satisfy the sweet tooth of nearly any e-commerce site.

Yes, for our European customers, we understand that footballin America primarily consists of contact of a ball with a player’s hands, but that’s our national past time. To befair, American football did begin with foot contact. We can blame Harvard for today’s hand-based(or Rugby) set of rules. We love futbolas well, but it’s still not quite as popular yet.

Nearly everyone within and outside of the e-commerce industry can pretty much outline all of the basic details of features that a B2C (business to customer) store should have. We use these kinds of online retail stores on a daily basis in our personal lives. A B2B (business to business) store can often have some different requirements, based upon a large number of factors.

These days, faster is just not fast enough. No matter the subject matter, we want it faster, cheaper, and easier than last time. This ranges from food orders, all the way to enterprise software purchases. Start-ups like Eat Club, FixIt, and Uber are all great examples of that. But what about you? What about the eager to please company that simply wants to launch their next great e-commerce website?

Do you love the Microsoft stack?  Perhaps you just have to work on it because your boss told you too.  It's either that, or you really want to work with a solution that allows you to work with C#, MVC, Razor and maybe even good ol' fashioned web forms. 

It was always our desire to reach across from our own borders to help enterprising people in other countries as they build their businesses to branch into successful online stores. A few months ago, we began to find out that we didn't need to do the reaching. The word about Hotcakes Commerce had already gone global. We have sites nearing launch in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands!

As we have seen over the past few years, entrepreneurs are the new rockstars.

On a recent episode of HBO's new hit TV series Silicon Valley, the main characters fought over the creativity of their product name, Pied Piper. Throughout the episode each character tries to come up with a better name that will define their business while poking fun at the current naming trends throughout tech companies.

Did you hear the news?  Hotcakes Commerce has fully integrated an amazing technology that will save your organization hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in managing something that you never wanted to manage any way...  Your TAXES!

Although Hotcakes Commerce provides you with everything you need when building your online store, finding a manufacturer to produce your product is another topic.

As trends change within the marketplace, it's essential for your business to prepare and adapt to the new environment. However, if you refuse to embrace what's happening around you, then we all know what may happen next.