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I have oscThumb installed in my shops. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,5491

It's running fine, but it throws a bunch of errors when my sites are run using the W3C markup validation service. Maybe not a big deal, or maybe it is. I don't know.

I am considering switching to On the Fly thumbs: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2226

I am interested in the pros and cons when compared to one another, both for 2.2 and 2.3.1 shops.

Thanks

If I'd have a site something like www.krazykats.com what effect would a meta title and description using deliberate misspelling such as meta title: krazy kats
meta title: we sell kute but krazy kats.
have on seo? meaning using the k instead of the c

Our osCommerce sites only use PayPal as the payment method, but sometime this year I'd like to add alternate methods of payment. Seems some customers just don't want to use PayPal....

But for bookkeeping purposes Paypal deposits are right then and there with the sale (to the PayPal acct), and with PayPal I am able to get a monthly total of PayPal fees that I enter at the end of the month for all PayPal sales, rather then enter the fee for each transaction individually. Bookkeeping runs fairly smoothly with PayPal sales.

But we also sell on a "market place" site that we use Google Checkout. It definitely effects sales there, probably 50% of sales are via Google Checkout.

So I am considering adding Google Checkout to my osC sites.

Problem with Google Checkout is it's a bit of a pain for bookkeeping purposes in Quickbooks. At least compared to PayPal.

For Google Checkout, once I enter the sale in Quickbooks, it's usually several days until the deposit to my bank account actually happens. Which makes reconciling the bank account a bit more work because the date of the sale and the actual deposit don't match. I usually end up manually adjusting the date of sale to get things to match.

Then to enter fees for Google Checkout, I have to individually enter each fee for each sale. Which is more work in bookkeeping, and if there's a bunch of Google Checkout sales that all ads up in time and effort. It doesn't seem Google Checkout generates a "monthly sales and transactions" report like PayPal does.

Is there something I am missing on how to better handle Google Checkout transactions and fees in Quickbooks?

I am using the PayPal Standard version that comes with 2.3.1 in a couple shops. I have also installed QT Pro in those shops. It appears that the same situation that occurred with the 2.2 version of paypal_ipn and qt pro is occurring with 2.3.1 paypal_standard and qt pro.

Meaning stock is not being handled (deducted) properly after a purchase.

Some time ago I used this fix - Paypal_IPN_2_3_4_7-Fix - for my 2.2 shops and that corrected the 2.2 shop issue.

But 2.3.1's paypal_standard code differs quite a bit from 2.2's paypal_ipn and the fix is not clearly evident to me when using a file compare to see what code might be needed where.

Anyone tackled this yet, so qt pro will work with 2.3.1's paypal_standard?

I was working with themeroller on a 2.3.1 shop and noticed that there were jQuery upgrades available. So I did that taking jQuery from jquery-1.4.2.min.js to jquery-1.6.1.min.js, and upgrading jQuery UI to jquery-ui-1.8.13.min.js. I also modified includes/template_top.php in the shop and admin side accordingly.

That worked nicely for themeroller but then I noticed that when I had multiple images in a product, the word "undefined" was showing up right under the selected image. Some googling took me to this post, leading me to modify jquery.bxGallery.1.1.min.js as per acidvertigo's suggestion. That fixed the problem, "undefined" disappeared.

But being that I am not a coder, I now wonder if there are other issues that I should watch out for when upgrading those javascripts. Any advice?

Thanks