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Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), European Article Numbering (EAN) et GS1

October 6th, 2010

Le Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) ou code article international en français est un code identifiant toute unité commerciale (unité consommateur ou unité standard de regroupement…) de façon internationale et unique.

GTIN est un terme général utilisé pour parler de l’ensemble des structures de données pour l’identification des articles marchands (produits et services) de GS1. Le code GTIN peut être constitué de 8, 12, 13 ou 14 chiffres, et peut être construit en utilisant quatre structure numéraires, selon l’application qui en sera faite.

GS1 est un organisme mondial actif dans le domaine de la normalisation des méthodes de codage utilisées dans la chaîne logistique. Il est issu de la fusion en juin 2003 de l’European Article Numbering (EAN, organisme européen) et de l’Uniform Code Council (UCC, organisme américain). EAN avait développé le standard EAN, alors qu’UCC avait développé la norme CUP.

GS1 a deux sièges, l’un à Bruxelles (Belgique), l’autre à Lawrenceville (New Jersey, États-Unis).

Pour obtenir un code EAN au Luxembourg, il faut devenir membre de GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg. Le code pays EAM-13 pour le Luxembourg est 54.

Un générateur en-ligne de codes barre EAN-13 pour faire des tests est disponible sur le site EAN-13 Barcode Generator.

Un calculateur pour calculer le checkdigit d’un code EAN est disponible sur le site www.barcode-us.com.

source : Wikipedia

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privacy protect for domain name owners

October 3rd, 2010

When buying a domain name you have to provide accurate contact information or else your domain registration could be terminated as it would be in violation of the registration agreement. This information has to be made publicly available to everyone via the public WHOIS database as required by ICANN, the international governing body for domain names. Everyday, this valuable source of accurate contact information is targeted and harvested by spammers and telemarketers resulting in unwanted and unsolicited contact.

Privacy Protection ensures that your private information is not published by replacing all your publicly visible contact details with alternate contact information. PrivacyProtect.org provides a WHOIS privacy service for domain name owners through partners. The only way to contact the real domain name owner is to use a webform.

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PayPal : Express Checkout or Website Payments Standard ?

June 10th, 2010

PayPal Standard

Customers checking out with PayPal Website Payments Standard (formerly referred to as “PayPal IPN”) will complete the order in the store and once coming to the choice of the payment method, they can select PayPal . There will be a large PayPal button for them to click, they are directed to a page that allows them to log into their PayPal account or to pay by credit card without having to sign up for a PayPal account. After the payment completion, customers are returned to the store.

Website Payments Standard is the fastest way to set up online payment on a website to accept credit cards, debit cards, bank transfers, and PayPal. The integration is easy (HTML based). In the case of ZenCart, if there is any problem in PayPal’s ability to communicate to the store server,  the order will not be passed to the store.

PayPal Express

PayPal Express Checkout gives the customer two options:  They can jump over to the PayPal site to login to their account before completing checkout on the store (which allows them to select their address information there and never have to re-type their address details on the store site, thus the “express” part of the transaction) and then choosing shipping choices and discounts/coupons etc before completing the order and confirm the payment.

The other possibility is to go to the PayPal site to login to their account after making shipping/payment/coupon selections on the store site (and creating an account on the store and typing their address info on the store), much like they do with PayPal Website Payments Standard.

One important benefit is that Express Checkout does not rely entirely on the IPN communications to the store in order to release the order. Instead, it stores the order immediately when payment is completed. It doesn’t have to rely on the PayPal server to talk to the store server in order to save the order. IPN updates are still useful in case of refunds or adjustments to the order and  are reflected in the store’s order history.

The integration of PayPal Express Checkout is more complex and is based on API’s.

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Vérifier un code IBAN européen

December 30th, 2009

Le site http://virements.online.fr permet de vérifier si le code IBAN d’un compte bancaire européen est correct.

Un outil très utile.

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Comptabilité

August 16th, 2009

Monsieur M. Fiévet de l’Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) de Namur a publié un cours d’introduction à la comptabilité qui s’adresse plus particulièrement aux étudiants de l’ESA mais qui est également accessible à tous les internautes.

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