Edition One
May 2006
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ATTITUDE'S BUSINESS SERIES:
HOW TO LOSE A MILLION DOLLARS (OR NOT)
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Anyone conducting online transactions runs a risk of being defrauded.
The latest of Attitude's Business Series guides for ecommerce merchants
outlines specific things you can look out for and steps you can take to
minimize that risk.

The online fraud guide covers:

- Online credit card fraud and other types of online fraud
- The effects of online fraud
- Risk assessment
- What to watch out for
- High-risk areas
- Preventive measures
- What to do if you've been defrauded
- Useful links

Content from the online fraud guide will be featured in osCommerce Watch.
The first article provides an introduction to the effects of online fraud.

Online Fraud Protection Series: How bad could it be?


The full guide is available to download as a printable PDF.


ATTITUDE'S SIMPLE OSCOMMERCE GUIDES
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Over the last few months, Attitude has released a series of printable,
step-by-step guides designed for osCommerce store owners. The guides
cover some of the essential processes related to running an online
store.

Current Guides include:

- Updating Prices
- Retrieving Order Information
- Sending Emails to Customers
- Creating a Backup
- Adding a Product
- Adding a Category
- Changing Customer Details
- Updating Language Files

They can be downloaded from http://www.oscommerce.co.nz/docs/.

ATTITUDE'S OSCOMMERCE BUSINESS SERIES:
OSCOMMERCE REVIEW
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Attitude has now released a downloadable pdf as a partner to the
existing online osCommerce Review. As part of this release, the
osCommerce Review text on the website has been revamped.

Read the review at http://www.oscommerce.co.nz/oscommerce-review.html or
go to http://www.oscommerce.co.nz/docs/oscommerce_review.pdf to download
the review as a printable PDF.

IMPROVE YOUR CART'S SECURITY:
OSCOMMERCE SECURITY UPDATE
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An update to osCommerce 2.2 MS2 has been released. We strongly recommend that
you apply this update to your site as soon as possible.

We are offering installation of this update on existing sites for US$50
(NZ$70+GST). Conditions apply.

This release improves the security of your site with come other important
changes, including:
* PHP 5 compatibility updates
* MySQL 5 compatibility updates
* Cross Site Scripting fixes
* Database data input updates
* File Manager file saving fixes
* Split Page Result class fixes

Visit http://www.attitude.net.nz/oscommerce_customization.html if you
want us to install the update on your cart.

To read more about the update, see http://www.oscommerce.com/about/news,121

TRACKING STORE PERFORMANCE:
SALES REPORT CONTRIBUTION
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It's important for merchants to stay up to date with the overall
performance of their business. The Sales Report contribution helps by
automatically calculating hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly
sales data for your store.

We think this is a worthy addition to your cart. The report shows:
- Total number of orders
- Average order amount
- Total sales
- % variance from previous hours/days/weeks/months

Key information is displayed graphically.

Go to http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,524/ to download
the Sales Report contribution.

If you're not a DIYer, we can install this contribution for you at a
cost of $US25 on a fairly unmodified cart.

Visit http://www.attitude.net.nz/oscommerce_customization.html if you
want us to install this contribution on your cart.

THANKS
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