SOLUTIONS : E-COMMERCE

What is E-commerce?

Simply put, e-commerce is the selling of products or services over the Internet. E-commerce can be as simple as offering something on a Web page and asking visitors interested in the product to send you money through the mail. It can also be much more complicated, utilizing shopping carts for customers to track the products they want to purchase, payment gateways that process credit card payments in real time, SSL to collect sensitive payment information, and store-fronts that can be customized and keep track of product inventory.

Once you're ready to delve into business on the Internet, where do you start? First you should become familiar with the various tools that are utilized in e-commerce, such as shopping carts, payment gateways, SSL, and store-fronts.

Shopping cart software, track products that the customer wants to buy. When a customer comes to the store pages, the shopping cart software assigns a tracking number to the products that the customer wants to buy. When a customer comes to the store pages, the shopping cart software assigns an tracking number to the current customer. Items that are added to the cart are associated with the tracking number for the order. When the customer wants to check out, all of the products in the shopping cart are added to the check out page. The software tracks the products with simple HTML tags that collect the product information.

Payment Processing

Most e-commerce sites use credit cards as the preferred method of payment. How you plan on processing credit card payments will determine whether or not you need SSL, or a payment gateway such as the one we provide through 2checkout.com.

Payment gateways provide a link from your Web site to the credit card processing company. If you want to process credit cards in real time from your site, then you'll need a payment gateway. The payment gateway will take the credit card information and send it to the credit card processor to determine if the sale can be authorized, and to verify the validity of the credit card. When a sale is authorized, the funds from the credit card are deposited in the merchant account by the credit card processor. Some payment gateways will require you to place your order form on their secure server, while others allow you to leave the order form on your own secure server. The secure server uses SSL, or Secure Socket Layer, to encrypt any information collected from the customer in order to ensure that the information doesn't get into the wrong hands. Fees for payment gateways vary; some take a flat monthly fee while others take a flat percentage of each transaction, or both.

Setting up SSL on your own Web site may require you to purchase an SSL certificate for your domain. Collecting the customer credit card information would then be encrypted and protected before being sent to the payment gateway. Customers can tell when they are at a secure site by the presence of the "s" in the http part of the URL. Also, most Web browsers display a lock indicating that the site is secure and give a warning when entering or leaving a secure site.

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