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Ecommerce Website Design and Hosting
Is your website getting its share of the £30bn that will be spent at online retail websites this year?
Online sales have been growing year-on-year and are set to reach new heights in 2010 Surprisingly, most companies do not realise that a small investment is enough to start trading online.
Ecommerce website design
A simple ecommerce website is very similar to non-ecommerce site. The only additional functionality is that it posses a way of purchasing at least one product or service online - whether it be by using a stand alone shopping cart or a paypal payment button.
A more advanced ecommerce website may posses an administrator area allowing for product and category addition and update, a secure client area showing past purchases and buying recommendations, and a payment facility that can be linked to an accounting or stock control software.
Our team of professional website designers have experience in designing both simple and advanced ecommerce websites so why not contact us to find out how we could turn your website into a round the clock sales machine.
Ecommerce payment gateway
Ecommerce payment gateways - also known as secure payment gateways - are online service providers that small and medium size businesses can use to process payments made through their websites.
The main advantage of payment gateways is that they allow website owners to offer a high level of security during the payment transaction. Most payment gateways charge a small - sometime fixed - fee and/or a transaction fee.
Our preferred payment gateway partner is Protx - a Sage company - who offer their services for a very low and fixed monthly fee starting at just £20/month. Find out more about Protx on their website.
Ecommerce hosting
For the more advanced ecommerce websites, where payments need to be processed by the website itself - for accounting purposes for example - secure ecommerce hosting is required. The secure ecommerce hosting will encrypt customer personal information as well as payment data. This encryption is generated by a secure socket layer (SSL) key that makes it nigh impossible to view customer data without the proper authorisation.
Give us a call, or request a callback, to discuss our ecommerce website design service and to find out which of the ecommerce payment gateway or the fully secure ecommerce hosting is the best solution for your website.