Square Launches Marketplace Site

Square, the mobile payments company that offers a mobile phone-based credit card reader, has launched Square Market, an online marketplace for eSellers without the effort or expense of building and maintaining a proprietary site.

Merchants or individuals can create a profile and manage product listings with photos in just a matter of minutes. They can then use social media such as Twitter or Facebook to broadcast deals on their sites.
Square's listings are free (Amazon's are 99 cents) but Square collects 2.75 percent of the item's sale price. eBay charges up to 30 cents per item.

In addition, Square doesn't handle fulfillment. As with eBay, product shipping is the responsibility of the seller.

GoECart Wins Quality Improvement Award

For the second year in a row, GoECart, a leading provider of fully integrated multi-channel eCommerce solutions, has won the Gold Award in the 2013 Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Competition. 

The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., founded in 1986, is America's first state-level quality award based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence.  

GoECart 360 offers the following:

• An Advanced eCommerce Platform (B2B and B2C) —Designed for speed, high-performance, and scalability
• Full Support for Personalized Products with Instant Preview — Adobe Scene7 to drive a personalization engine to offer customized products (e.g. engraving, monogramming, etc.) with instant visual "proof"
• Multi-Site Capabilities — Multiple branded sites and microsites can be leveraged to boost SEO and cater to multiple markets (e.g., B2B, B2C, international)
• Sales and Use Tax Compliance — GoECart is officially certified with Avalara AvaTax, giving merchants end-to-end sales tax compliance at no additional cost.
• Enterprise-class Back-office Tools — GoECart's eCommerce storefront communicates directly with its Order and Inventory Management Systems and built-in Salesforce.com CRM module, all driven from a single data source
• Responsive Technical Support — GoECart introduced a number of customer focused programs last year, including follow-the-sun support, enhanced training, SEO migration, social media reputation preservation, and conversion optimization consulting
• Amazon and eBay Integration — Merchants can automatically list products and update inventory to these popular marketplaces. Orders and fulfillment info is also synched up seamlessly without leaving the GoECart 360 admin panel.