MarketingWhy Build a Shopping Cart for Developers?
When we first started FoxyCart, we probably looked at over 100 different shopping carts. Everywhere we looked we saw the same problem. Software target...
Best Practices・Culture・SecurityThe Myths of PCI Compliance: A “PCI Compliant Box”
One of the “perks” of being a PCI Level 1 Service Provider is that we often get asked about becoming PCI compliant by friends and acquaintances. Often...
CultureThought Leadership or Wishful Thinking?
Almost 2 years ago, I set out to learn what a REST API really is. Speaking with Brett Florio, my co-founder, we talked about how few visible REST APIs...
CultureHackathons for Remote Teams: Our First Attempt
As a programmer, I love not having to make excuses for how much I enjoy my craft. I don’t have to explain why developers, designers, and programmers s...
Best Practices・Culture・SecurityIn which we talk security
If I told you, “you can protect your business with just ONE minute per week,” you’d do whatever I said, wouldn’t you? Well, I’m going to give you that...
Best Practices・MarketingCoupons are great, except when they’re not…
Coupon promotions are a great way to bring customers into your store and encourage them to complete the transaction where they may otherwise not be co...
CultureWhy Does FoxyCart Support Bitcoin?
I started researching Bitcoin a couple months ago. As the core developer of a shopping cart provider, I’m very interested in all forms of payment proc...
Product Updates
Product UpdatesFoxyCart v1.1, and an update
We’ve been hard at work on FoxyCart since our last release, and we’re happy to announce our v1.1 release (full changelog) which brings a few new alter...
CultureHypermedia Dog Food
As you may know, we’ve been working really hard behind the scenes on a completely redesigned REST (or Hypermedia) API. We had a lot of debate on which...