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an e-business site
All businesses are in a position to benefit from online
trading. When conducting business online there are a wide variety of options
that
are available to you although a simple functional retail online
business requires the following tools for your web site:
Shopping Cart or Order Form?
If you are only receiving payment on your website from a few options
then a order form may be necessary for clients to make a selection and
add their information, if necessary. For businesses that offer a greater
range of options, be they products or services, then a shopping cart
may be the best solution. A shopping cart is a piece of software that
acts as an online store's catalogue and ordering process. Typically,
a shopping cart is the interface between a company's web site and its
deeper infrastructure, allowing consumers to select merchandise, review
what they have selected, make necessary modifications or additions and
purchase the merchandise.
Shopping carts can be sold as independent pieces of software so companies
can integrate them into their own unique online solution, or they can
be offered as a feature from a service that will create and host a company's
ecommerce site.
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Payments
Accepting and processing customer payments
from your web site is an important process. In order to reduce
the risks associated with storing
and managing your customers’ credit card details it is essential
that you utilize a secure online real time payment solution.
Alive offers it's own online merchant fascility - AliveCommerce - a solution that manages:
- Security when credit card information is entered to pay
for good and services.
- The credit card information is processed in real time with notification
of the transactions success or failure being provided to
you and your customer within seconds.
- Once the transaction has been authorized, the funds are transferred
directly into your account.
Read an introduction to e-commerce
Read about how to get
started with e-commerc - using AliveCommerce
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