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Ecommerce is a very hot sector of the economy and the internet. If you do ecommerce - or want to - remember that you will need to have a website that is very functional and very dependable - 24/7. Your ecommerce webhost plays a big role in your success, so pick a host that can support ecommerce well.
Ecommerce hosting packages need to support very powerful websites. This allows you to make a dependable and responsive sales engine.
Here are some important features:
The Planning Phase - Ecommerce websites need much more planning than a regular business web site. You need the detailed plan for both now and the future - so that your choice of hosting services can grow with your site. Try to anticipate the addition of new features as you have a need for them. Your webhost must provide very dependable support services. You will have to have a database to store all the info about the products and customer information of your business. Make sure your host can show you a demo model or some of their clients’ ecommerce websites in operation so that you can study their function.
The Shopping Cart- The virtual shopping cart should be provided by any ecommerce website. This allows a buyer to select one or more products before going to the checkout for purchase. The program should have cookies so that the ecommerce site remembers each customer and each item in their shopping cart. Your ecommerce hosting plan should support the shopping cart programs, or at least the one you will use.
The Payment Gateway- Ecommerce necessitates provision of a payment gateway so customers will purchase goods from your site with Visa, MC, MoneyBookers.com, PayPal.com , check, or even by telephone. Your host must support this kind of functioning - so check to make sure all features are compatible and supported by the host.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - To accept payment online you need an SSL. SSL provides security by encrypting all payment data. This includes credit card numbers, addresses, and personal info so that it cannot be read by computers as the transaction passes through. Without any SSL all personal and financial info would be visible to anyone accessing the computers. Ideally, your hosting provider should guarantee near 100% uptime. The worst situation involves your visitors and established customers unable to bring up your website. The easiest way to find out about a host’s reputation is to communicate with their webmaster clients about the host’s dependability.
To Serve and Protect,
Arthur Browning
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August 7th, 2007 at 8:32 am
This might be a better way to go. Host applications, otherwise known as SAAS for software as a service, deliver far less expensive ecommerce platforms to let small business start ups develop a business online at little or no expense.
FastCommerce.com Announces That Small Online Retailers Continue to Sign Up for the Free Online Store with Free Shopping Cart Service
FastCommerce.com (www.fastcommerce.com) announced to day that small online businesses continue to sign up for the Fast Commerce free online webstore with free ecommerce and free shopping cart.
San Mateo, CA, August 07, 2007 –(PR.com)– With FastCommerce.com (www.fastcommerce.com) small business retailers can now sell online with an online storefront that is easy to use and free: free to set up and free to use for up to 250 products. The free internet stores from FastCommerce can be set up in minutes. With FastCommerce.com, online retailers can start selling right away with a complete and completely free ecommerce package.
The Fastcommerce.com package comes with a serious set of tools: a free online presence, free hosting, online catalog with featured and related products, live shopping cart, order management and customer contact management, inventory, shipping rate calculator for UPS and FedEx, auto-email responder for order and shipping confirmation, and more. With FastCommerce.com you can run most of your online business from a single system.
And you can run the FastCommerce single-system free webstore at no risk and at no cost for the first 250 products. It doesn’t get easier than this. Stop wasting time with ‘free trials’: with FastCommerce you can sign up and sign in to start your online business right away.
Build your online business for free with the FastCommerce eCommerce package. You not only get a free webstore and free shopping cart, you get the tools you need to grow your business online. With their free internet stores, there is no waiting, no free trial. Sign up and sign in to build your webstore in minutes, and then start selling right away.
Go to www.fastcommerce.com and start building your online business now.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Hosting Your Ecommerce Website
Great post. Thanks! I’ll add a link to your post.
August 21st, 2007 at 10:58 am
Free web store
Create a free online store.
Many companies will give you free internet stores. But then you are charges fees for hosting or for transactions. With the free online store from Fast Commerce, you get a store that is free to start, free to use, for up to 250 products. You can create an online store in just minutes, and start selling right away.
The FastCommerce package was designed to let small businesses quickly set up a free webstore quickly and easily, with all the tools needed to display and sell products online. It even includes a shipping calculator and email auto-responder for order and shipping confirmation.
So don’t waste time with free trials. This is free ecommerce with a free online store and a free online shopping cart that is also free to use. You simply sign up and sign in to start building your online storefront. Go live immediately and start selling right away.
FastCommerce.com has everything you need to build an online webstore, and it is free.
You can now build an online business that includes a web presence, online storefront, product catalog, shopping cart, order and account management, email auto-responder for order and shipping confirmation, plus live shipping calculations for UPS and FedEx.
Just use it to grow your online ecommerce business. It’s free. It doesn’t get any easier than this. Tell your friends about the free website software from FastCommerce.com
But don’t be fooled: the free webstore from Fast Commerce isn’t just a shopping cart. It has serious business tools that let you successfully manage your site. With the FastCommerce internet store, you can process orders, manage customer accounts, create related products and featured product: our free webstore is easy to use, but it also gives you the flexibility to sell the way you want to.
So open an online store. It takes five minutes to sign up and to begin setting up: we deliver our shopping cart free so you can focus on growing your online business without having to worry over costly fees. With the FastCommerce.com free web store you can start selling right away.
About Fastcommerce
Fastcommerce.com provides business management software to small businesses, delivered on demand as a service via the web on a free or paid monthly subscription basis. We provide small businesses with a complete fully integrated package that run their entire operations, from inventory control, sales, marketing, support, online catalog, e-commerce, backend order processing and built-in UPS and Fedex shipping tools.
The only requirement to use our software is an internet connection. Unlike a traditional software company, our small business customers do not need to buy and maintain expensive software and hardware.