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E-commerce Options For Selling OnlineE-commerce Security Options: In most cases you are dealing with a customer's private information, which requires a safe and secure processing options. These range from utilizing another secure processing system like PayPal to having your own Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate. Using your own SSL and domain for transacting buisness improves your search engine popularity and SEO capabilities. Other security option include username and password protected areas of a site. E-commerce Payment Options: Regardless of what you're selling be it a product, information or access to information you need to collect payment in order to e-commerce. At a minimum you need the SSL security defined above in order to collect private financial information. Will you accept all major credit cards including discover and American Express? Will you accept electronic check payments? Will you allow a COD payment? E-commerce Merchant Accounts: Do you already have a merchant account? If you don't have a merchant account you can set one up through us. Will you do manual processing of the credit card or utilize an online merchant gateway for real-time transactions. A gateway is a virtual credit card acceptance system, working with many national and regional banks to support online transfer of funds using credit cards or ATM debit cards. You have the ability to access the gateway to manually process transaction to issue credits or charge backs. E-commerce Shipping Options: You can ship by Federal Express we connect your store to the FedEx web site for calculation of shipping costs. You can do Flat Rate shipping which will charge a flat rate shipping by zip code, state, and world zone. No shipping offers free shipping or price includes shipping, there is weight based shipping utilizing UPS or USPS. Quantity based shipping will calculate shipping depending on the quantity ordered or other definable variables. Shipping by product or category will calculate shipping rates based on the specific category or product. Shipping by subtotals will calculate shipping depending on what range the subtotal falls into, and/or where the order is being shipped. E-commerce Order Fulfillment Options: Will you be packaging and shipping the product your self? Will use a secondary vendor to fulfill your orders? Will your website automatically fulfill your order requests? These are a few items that need clarification and configuration. Who will be notified when an order is placed? Who is billed, who is paid, are there commissions or affiliates to be notified? These are all items that need clarification and specification when configuring an e-commerce web site. E-commerce Product Layout: Your products or saleable items need to be configured with source page html to your liking, but also to the liking of search engines..Your specific HTML is developed so you display the product listings and categorys in whatever way best suits you while optimizing for Search Engine Optimization. E-commerce Search Engine Promotion: Search Engines are a powerful tool for generating sales. How will you get indexed in search engines? What key words or keyword phrases will you promote and why? Who are you competing against online for these visitors? Will you do Pay-Per-Click (PPC) or rely on organic searches for traffic? Will you develop a referral or affiliate network? How do want to handle link exhanges or banner promotion? Having a website is a very small piece of building a successful online e-commerce website. Schedule a One-on-One consultation with one of our professionals to answer these preiminary questions. Let us expose to all the possabilities available to you online working with out team of e-commerce professionals.
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