osCommerce, osCommerce Design, osCommerce Hosting, osCommerce modules, osCommerce developers

On Friday the 11th of December Holbi took part in the osCommerce meeting in London.

The meeting itself was the culmination of Harald Ponce de Leon’s visit to London; he also spent some time with other team and community members in the days before the meeting.

The meeting was held in an European-style bar just off Oxford street (area of Central London). Unfortunately it was quite loud in there so talking to other people was a bit challenging.

We came up with a short list of the most important questions we wanted to discuss with Harald and other osCommerce activists. Our main question and biggest concern was about if osCommerce was going to be developed further, whether it was still an alive project or not. Good news - we were reassured it was the case. Harald confirmed the Beta version of osCommerce 3.0 was due very very soon and additional versions (3.1, 3.2, etc) would be released soon soon after that.

Our next question was if Harald was working on the project on his own. Interestingly enough this was the case up until October or November this year. As of then one more person (Mark) joined as a member of the Core Team. Mark is based in the UK and we hope to be in contact with him any time soon.

Our final question was about competition with Magento and other Ecommerce solutions, whether Harald was going to try to make osCommerce #1 open source Ecommerce solution again. We received a confirmative response. Harald thinks of version 3.0 as the new core of osCommerce. He reckons a lot of features will be easily added in further versions that will follow soon.

We also discussed our company’s profile, our values, where our business is going and touched the history of our involvement with osCommerce. We offered to give reasonable support and feedback based on the practical use of osCommerce on our projects.

Overall we were quite pleased with what we heard last Friday, and will now look forward to seeing all those things implemented soon!

osCommerce hosting is one of the services provided by Holbi - a leader in osCommerce development.

Holbi’s osCommerce Hosting department currently manages over 15 servers in the UK, USA and Germany. We host over 250 online stores for our customers. And numbers keep growing - we will be adding more servers to our network in Q1 2010 and are signing up new hosting customers every day!

All our servers are optimized for osCommerce and osCommerce-based shopping cart solutions, we only host not more than 30 online stores per server and ensure our hosting is secure, robust and helps our clients to improve their online businesses.

We welcome osCommerce hosting clients from all countries. We can help in moving your online store to our servers without any significant downtime. Contact us today to start your osCommerce hosting with Holbi tomorrow!

Holbi renews their osCommerce sponsortship and continues to support the project and the community behind it.

This year Holbi becomes a Gold level sponsor that proves our dedication to osCommerce and also confirms our leading position as osCommerce development specialists.

We also look forward to the osCommerce meeting in London in December 2009.

Today Holbi proudly presents new online store DiamondRocks.co.uk

Diamond Rocks brings to you a range of high quality contemporary jewellery, designer jewellery and loose diamonds from the capital of the jewellery industry in the UK, Hatton Garden. We are backed by an International consortium founded in 1985 with buying offices in New York, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Antwerp and Mumbai and our jewellery is made by some of the best jewellery manufacturers in the world.

Diamond Rocks provides you with the opportunity of buying jewellery safely and securely online with our peace of mind 30 day money back guarantee with insured delivery to your door or you can come see us at our Hatton Garden office. We have over 1,500 items of jewellery in stock and have access to thousands of loose diamonds. However, if your choice of jewellery is not on our website we can produce it especially for you on most occasions. Diamond Rocks are committed to offering competitively priced products with excellent service.

Please visit www.diamondrocks.co.uk or call 0800 977 4855.

“Holbi have taken my website from an initial concept to a live hosted version with seamless efficiency. They have a number of skilled people across the different aspects of web development from designers, developers and hosting specialists which has made them easy to work with as they are a ‘one stop shop’. Holbi have been very flexible with my changing requirements as I was grasping what I wanted from my website both from a functional and design perspective. I will be more than happy to use Holbi for any future projects and also to recommend them.“

We send our sincere congratulations to Eduard, one of our Search Engine Marketing Account Managers who’s become yet another Holbi’s Qualified Google Advertising Professional today!

Eduard’s Google Advertising profile is available online
here.

Feedback from some of our customers who used Holbi’s Search Engine Marketing or Pay Per Click campaign management services can be seen at http://www.holbi.co.uk/about/testimonials/.

Our Search Engine Marketing team keeps growing and we plan to start offering our clients even more useful products and services within a short time!

Holbi is currently preparing a set of special deals on Ecommerce solutions. The deals will be available to our customers until Christmas 2009 and every online merchant will be able to find something that will improve their turnover and increase profitability of the business.

Keep an eye on our web site and on our Twitter page to be the first to spot great offers on Ecommerce solutions!

Several new (or updated) osCommerce online stores have been released recently.

Those are:

http://www.collectablesltd.com/
http://www.bikesnparts.nl/
http://www.doublealpha.biz/
http://www.viioleteyes.com/
http://www.sensationalsextoys.com/
http://www.uniformsrcool.co.uk/

We are very happy to announce one of our clients AdvancedMP3Players.co.uk have been nominated as T3 Magazine’s Retailer of the Year alongside companies such as John Lewis, Amazon.co.uk, Play.com, Currys Digital, Selfridges and Harrods.

Well done AMP3!

Vote for your preferred retailer of the year here:

http://awards.t3.com/categories/retailer-of-the-year

DataLink UK Ltd and its business partner SystemCore Ltd presented a brand new recently developed product called EcommerceSupermarket to the visitors and co-exhibitors of Business Startup show that took place in London ExCel centre on the 28th and 29th of May.

This is a completely new conception for us as most of our well known Ecommerce services are now wrapped into several Ecommerce packages. Packages available at very reasonable monthly fees and a new online store can go live in literally hours.

Free 15 days trial is available to any customer - no charges, no spam messages, no questions asked.

We will be publishing more information about our participation in the British Startup show and also about our exciting new products available via EcommerceSupermarket.co.uk

osCommerce store owners who use Protx payment method should read this message. It is a part of the email sent by Protx last week:

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Technical info

As a part of the rebrand we will no longer be using www.protx.com,
this will be replaced with www.sagepay.com. This means that the URLs
used to process transactions will also change. We have attached a
document
http://protx.gtml1.com/Protxlz//lz.aspx?p1=0563636S392&w=http://protx.gtml1.com/Protxlz//Instances/Protxlz/documents/URLs.pdf
indicating the current URLs, and what these will be changing to.

Important: We recommend that you update your URLs as soon as possible
after 21st April; however service will not be disrupted if you
continue to use the Protx URLs.

Please note: We have implemented measures to ensure that any
information sent to the Protx URLs is forwarded securely to the new
Sage Pay URLs for the next 6 months.

Although the launch of Sage Pay is scheduled for the 21st of April, we
will be releasing some of our systems before the official launch to
ensure a smooth transition. Please find important dates below:

- Wednesday 15th April
After 5:30 pm the Protx TEST server will carry Sage Pay branding,
which includes the test server payment pages.

- Saturday 18th April
From this date all customer service emails will come from
‘@sagepay.com’ addresses. Please make sure your spam filter is set up
to accommodate.

- Tuesday 21st April
From 7 am the Protx LIVE server will become Sage Pay. This includes
the Live server payment pages, My Sage Pay (formerly VSP Admin), the
www.sagepay.com website and the CMS area.

Again, our support lines are open should you need assistance with any
of the above.
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