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Category: Spiffy Stores

  • What the Batman: Arkham Knight PC debacle says about software development

    So last weekend I needed to buy a new PC graphics card because my old one was starting to act up. I got a brand new latest generation card for a reasonable price which is faster, smaller and uses less power. So all is good. Along with the card, I got a coupon code for…

  • Spiffy Stores helps with shipping – Product Export and Import

    Spiffy Stores has recently added some new features to help online shop owners improve the way they calculate shipping rates during checkout. As part of this process, we added seven new attributes to the Product Variations so this has meant that we needed to update the product export and import CSV files. The seven new…

  • Spiffy Stores has moved!

    As part of our preparations to open up Spiffy Stores to the world, we’ve changed our default web site from http://www.spiffystores.com.au/ to http://www.spiffystores.com/ Of course, all the old links still work, but now you’ll be redirected to our new home, and hopefully we’ll soon be inviting the rest of the world to try out a…

  • How to create featured products with Spiffy Stores

    I’ve added some documentation to our Knowledge Base on how to use the ‘Featured Product’ setting to highlight a product in your Spiffy Store ecommerce site. I think it’s a great way to showcase your products using the ‘Featured’ setting and our Super Collections to build custom collections of your most important products. You can…

  • Theme Settings in Spiffy Stores Templates

    After a huge development effort, I’m pleased to announce that Spiffy Stores have now announced a new feature for their theme templates…Theme Settings. Although the Spiffy Stores Themes have always been highly configurable, this configuration necessarily required some knowledge of HTML and CSS. Not any more. The new Theme Settings ability means that theme designers…

  • Is anybody there?

    I’m so used to the Spiffy Stores features, that I kind of take some of them as granted, and forget that some of our competitors seem to ignore basic customer needs. Take for example, the Contact Us form. Practically every ecommerce site needs one. Customers aren’t going to be very impressed if there’s no way…

  • Creating multi-level menus can be such a drag

    One of the neat features that we have in our hosted shopping cart, Spiffy Stores,  is the ability to create multi-level drop down menus by simply dragging and dropping menu items into the right position in a tree-structured list. There’s a simple liquid tag in the theme template which then renders the whole menu for…