Micro loans to Low Income Entrepreneurs

January 23rd, 2010

Kiva.org

One Step Checkout corp.  is certainly not Bill Gates. But even as a small medium-sized company in the ecommerce industry we think it makes sense to lend a hand to others in the commerce industry in the developing world. At One Step Checkout we allocate some of our proceeds to microfinance projects, in cooperation with KIVA, the world’s first peer-to-peer micro-lending website.

What is KIVA?
Kiva’s mission is to connect people, through lending, for the sake of alleviating poverty. Kiva empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending.

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Launch of One Step Checkout for Magento

November 2nd, 2009

Hello, and welcome to the blog of OneStepCheckout.com! After many months of developing our product, we are proud to officially launch it! Our product is simply:

A better Magento Checkout

We have been doing consultancy Magento work for the past two years – and has been involved in launching several dozen online stores, in addition to have started a few ourselves (both with virtual and physical products). If there is a single issue that most of our customers complain about – it is the complexity involved in the original Magento checkout process. Also, from the ecommerce sites we run ourselves, we got weekly calls from our customers that were stuck in the checkout – trying to complete the purchase. As this were causing lost sales on a daily basis, we decided to do something about it …

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