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CultureWe Took a Risk with Bitcoin. Should You?
In April of 2013, we started supporting Bitcoin on our platform (and accepting it as payment ourselves). It was a risk because Bitcoin was (and still...
Best PracticesCultureSecurityThe Myths of PCI Compliance: A “PCI Compliant Box”
One of the “perks” of being a PCI Level 1 Service Provider is that we often get asked about becoming PCI compliant by friends and acquaintances. Ofte...
CultureThought Leadership or Wishful Thinking?
Almost 2 years ago, I set out to learn what a REST API really is. Speaking with Brett Florio, my co-founder, we talked about how few visible REST API...
CultureHackathons for Remote Teams: Our First Attempt
As a programmer, I love not having to make excuses for how much I enjoy my craft. I don’t have to explain why developers, designers, and programmers ...
Best PracticesCultureSecurityIn which we talk security
If I told you, “you can protect your business with just ONE minute per week,” you’d do whatever I said, wouldn’t you? Well, I’m going to give you tha...
CultureWhy Does FoxyCart Support Bitcoin?
I started researching Bitcoin a couple months ago. As the core developer of a shopping cart provider, I’m very interested in all forms of payment pro...
CultureHypermedia Dog Food
As you may know, we’ve been working really hard behind the scenes on a completely redesigned REST (or Hypermedia) API. We had a lot of debate on whic...
CultureShout Out to FoxyCart Merchants We Patronize
One of the comments we’ve heard a few times from FoxyCart developers goes something along the lines of… I actually like testing the FoxyCart checkout...
CulturePostmortem: Failing Over to our Backup Environment
If you’ve been watching our Twitter and status page you’ll see that we’ve had major server issues over the last two days. As a FoxyCart store, you de...