My first deep dive into Bitcoin was back in 2013. The price had been climbing steeply since 2012, and I started to realise this was more than just a weird experiment by computer geeks. Back then, it was a real wild west, and the media was filled with stories of fortunes made and lost. The …
Gold and Silver have been recognised as money and a store of value for centuries. It was only 52 years ago, when President Nixon closed the gold window in 1971, that we started living in a world of FIAT currency, which has nothing tangible backing it. Before that, the US dollar was “honest money”, directly …
I’ve been a fan boy of Paddle as a payment system for aMember since 2021. So much so, I wrote and contributed the original Paddle (Classic) plugin to the aMember core. Why do I love Paddle so much? Quite simply because it’s a Merchant of Record (MoR) payment provider. This means they go beyond just …
aMember makes it simple to sell digital products and subscriptions worldwide, and has a variety of tax modules to suit your home tax jurisdiction and intended audience. With many aMember sites selling internationally, it’s pretty common to see pricing in US Dollars (USD), even if the business is located outside the USA. For example, my …
aMember makes it simple to sell digital products and subscriptions worldwide, but selling to European Union countries is a major tax accounting nightmare. In fact, according to official EU Parliament data, the cost of VAT compliance for small businesses (SMEs) is about US $16,000 (EUR15,000) PER YEAR! In this blog, I’m going to highlight the rules …
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post showing how to track aMember sales in Google Universal Analytics “Enhanced Ecommerce” using Google Tag Manager. Well, Google Analytics Version 4 (known as GA4) is now out of beta, and I’ve started migrating my aMember sites tracking to use GA4. This article shows a clean install …
If you are using Google Tag Manager (GTM) to handle your Google Analytics, then you will need a way to populate the dataLayer with eCommerce data when you make a sale in your aMember site. Here’s how I do it on my sites, using aMember’s own Conversion Track plugin. Step 1: Add the dataLayer in …