Halloween is around the corner! Right, like you couldn’t tell from the “quick-up” costume stores breathing neon-orange colored life back into your neighborhood’s half empty strip mall. Yes, these stores offer convenience and variety, but sadly, town to town, they are all the same and provide premiere shelf space for only the hottest selling, mass produced costumes. Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of the only holiday of the year promoting creativity, individuality, and an opportunity for people to have fun being distinctly different?

So, this season, to buck the system, 2Checkout is taking a different approach to the traditional way of shopping for costumes and spooky accessories. Instead of visiting the same old chains selling witch hats and Yoda ears, we sent our resident expert, Julie, who “night owls” in the business through Gothichomemaker.com and serves as 2Checkout’s Training and Development Coordinator by day, to preview the unique and creepy products available from 2Checkout vendors designed to set an eerie tone this witching season. You will enjoy what she found:

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2Checkout provides you with the ability to offer recurring products. In addition, you can combine our Instant Notification Service (INS) with your recurring products to further automate your system.

What Is A Recurring Product?

A recurring product will form a sale that will automatically bill your customer at a specified interval. These types of products are typically used for such items as web hosting, membership services or ‘Item of the Month’ type products.

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Business is not just about partnerships anymore, it is about friendship and building personal relationships. Not only is Payoneer a fantastic partner and payment method, they have become personal friends of those at 2Checkout.com.

This year I was given the opportunity to attend TechCrunch 50 with our friends at Payoneer. I had not heard of this conference before and was intrigued when I found out that 50 companies would be launched over a three-day period. In addition to 50 great new products, they had assembled an amazing line up of speakers and a panel of expert advisers that sparked lively discussion and debate during the conference.

I would like to introduce you to a few of the businesses that I felt showed great promise.

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The largest single sales transaction in 2Checkout history closed last week and we would like to give a “shout out” to Directory Wizards Inc. for earning a spot in the 2CO record book.

Directory Wizards has been a model 2Checkout vendor for three and a half years, offering directory solutions through its SimpleSync and Profiler software packages. SimpleSync provides customers a unique technology that can synchronize account information between directories, so each directory contains a unified view of other non-connected directories. The software is powerful enough to scale extremes such as smaller directories made up of hundreds of objects with massive directories including hundreds of thousands of objects without requiring extensive training or excessive installation and configuration. Profiler , a web based software, enables companies to empower end users to update personal directory information themselves, such as telephone numbers, by using the browser on their PC.

Through quality software and resourceful customer support, Directory Wizards has amassed an impressive list of loyal customers including the Green Bay Packers , 7-Eleven, Harvard Medical School, and the United States Marine Corps. Last week’s record shattering sale eclipsed the previous 2Checkout single purchase record by thousands of dollars. The specific transaction was a multi-year maintenance contract worth over $73,000 USD, creating a “blip” the size of a 747 on the 2Checkout radar. And considering the size and depth of the order, a company spokesperson indicated the checkout process was quite easy and convenient for the customer. When it was time to bill the customer, Directory Wizards created a PDF outlining the details of the maintenance quote and embedded a one-line payment hotlink pointing to 2Checkout for seamless finalization.

Directory Wizards — we recognize your ingenuity and congratulate you for making 2Checkout history. We hope you break your record next week!

As you can see, we’re recommending five more shopping carts.

We’d like to thank Clement Nicolaescu, Pinnacle Cart and WorksForWeb for creating the most recent additions to our Recommended Carts list.

Every shopping cart on our Recommended Carts list has been reviewed by 2CO staff to confirm that they meet all of our integration requirements. If you would like to use a third party shopping cart with your 2Checkout account, there’s one to meet just about any vendor’s needs already on the list and we’re adding more all the time.

If you are creating a 2CO-compatible shopping cart and would like to have it added to our Recommended Carts list, please contact us at integration@2co.com and provide a working demonstration, so we can review it for inclusion and provide any additional assistance you may require.