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Websites
that sell products or services and directly make money from a website
are referred to as 'e-commerce' sites simply because they make money.
As opposed to websites that offer free services, or interest group
services or even company websites  that
merely offer back-end marketing and or support.
We
often design e-commerce websites with any of the following; some
are referred to as 'On-line stores' or 'Web Based Businesses'.
- Shopping
Cart software (that enables collated purchasing on-line)
- Credit
Card Verification (some require this while others don't)
- Secure
Ordering (Using a SSL - Secure Socket Layer - for transmittal
of Credit Card data)
- Currency
Converters (for overseas clients to determine prices in local
currency)
- Automated
billing & receipting (So that transactions aren't lost)
- Secure
Access to Server (to retrieve credit card transaction data
in SSL mode)
Any
website that sells products or services using a simple email process
is leaving customers out in the cold, as the credit card data and
personal information can be easily stolen, it is essential that
the most important aspect for an e-commerce site is SECURITY.
As
with many other aspects, the content of your site will determine
what level of e-commerce functionality you will need, we often use
CFM (Cold Fusion Markup Language) to program custom designed e-stores
(like our own website) or we can use commercially preprogrammed
software to handle it all for you, depending on your business.
At
our hosting facility we run a SSL 128-bit certificate.
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