Combined Ecommerce Solutions for Your Web Site Design
A Web Hosting Article Contributed by Frances Rhea
The Best Ecommerce Solutions for Your Web Site Design
Choosing a cart and payment solution for your Ecommerce Web site design can be a frustrating process. There are so many companies that offer Merchant Accounts and cart programming that it can be difficult to choose one that will be cost effective and easy to use. The two solutions offered here are the best methods I have found for simple, economical solutions.
Paypal for Your Ecommerce Web Site Design
Paypal integrates a basic shopping cart function with a payment gateway and merchant account. The drawback of using Paypal is that your customers must be Paypal members. They can become members by purchasing from you and sign-up is integrated into the checkout process. There are no monthly fees or setup costs. You only pay a small percentage of each sale. You also receive free fraud protection. With PayPal there are no chargeback fees to worry about.
They provide an extensive online support center to help you implement PayPal into your ecommerce Web site design. There are also other shopping carts which will allow you to use PayPal as your payment solution.
2checkout for Your Ecommerce Web Site Design
2CheckOut is the cheapest best solution I have found. They do not charge an application fee like most Merchant Accounts. There are no monthly, statement or payment gateway fees. There are no leases or contracts. There is a small setup fee and they charge a very low transaction fee on each sale they process. They also have a 30 day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with their service.
There are no maximum or minimum sales levels and provide a secure server for all of your online payments. This SSL can be important if your hosting company charges for SSL.
They provide free Direct Deposit of all funds into any US bank and free check payment or low cost wire to non US banks.
They provide a free shopping cart to host on your server or create product links using a product database which is easy to create and maintain. Both have the ability to add options if your product has various sizes or colors.
They provide great technical support and answer all queries quickly.
There is no equipment or software needed to instantly accept all 4 major credit cards. You can accept credit card payments from anywhere in the world.
They have options to allow you to sell either products or services with recurring billing supported.
If you all ready have a shopping cart, it will works with it. They will also help you set it up so that it works with their system.
They provide instant sales notification on all transactions along with a daily or weekly sales report.
Conclusion
I have found that the best solution is combining both of these systems for your Ecommerce Web site design. By using 2CheckOut with PayPal, your visitors can pay for your products or services any way they want. 2CheckOut integrates PayPal with their services to make this easy.
