To display real-time UPS rates on your site you need to first sign-up for access to the UPS API. We'll walk you through the steps.

To display real-time USPS rates on your site you need to first sign-up for an account a USPS. We'll walk you through the steps.

It's that time again! Due to how the USPS API works, CFWebstore typically needs to be updated each year to work with the latest changes to the USPS Rates. There are two steps to updating your site to correctly show the new rates. First, open up the cfcs/shipping/uspostal.cfc file and look for the...

Those of you using USPS rates may have noticed they broke sometime around Jan. 2. Apparently when USPS rolled out some price changes for the new year, which also typically includes a bunch of changes to the shipping service names, they included registration/trademark symbols in the API responses,...

Been a while since I posted anything to the blog, so thought I'd pass on some useful links and tools I've been using recently.

The first is the awesome CF411 site maintained by Charlie Arehart. This is a compendium of links to all kinds of...

Not long ago I got an email from a customer having a strange problem with his store. Whenever someone checked a box to remove an item from the shopping cart, the store would throw an error. Reviewing the error dump showed a strange null null error. We've seen this in ColdFusion for some time but in...

If you update to the latest version of the Firefox browser, you may find the WYSIWYG editor in your store will disappear. This is due to a bug in the FCKEditor that is used for this component, it has a browser compatibility check that only goes up to the year 2009! Here's information on how to...

I've had a number of requests to create a Facebook Fan page for CFWebstore, so here you go! I'll be posting from time to time there with important updates, news, blog posts, etc. so a great way for you Facebook users to stay informed on the latest CFWebstore news and to network with other users as...

Readers of this blog know I've been a big fan of the Railo open source CFML server engine. Open BlueDragon also continues to improve and has good support from the community. Now we have the new ColdFusion 9 release...

We're continuing to see malware injection attacks against ColdFusion sites. The latest attack used the public upload in the popular Galleon software. Read the details here:

How...

Google Analytics is a very popular service many merchants use to do tracking on their sites. Typically this involves inserting a small amount of javascript into your site. This is very easily accomplished with CFWebstore by pasting the code into your layout page (such as layouts/lay_default.cfm). Read More