We can also create a complete online store for your web site. Your store will have a shopping cart and credit card payment capabilities. Additionally, we provide a complete content management system that will allow you to update the products in your online store by yourself. With the click of a mouse, you can easily add, delete, or update any product. The online store also comes with an administration system that will allow you to keep track of all your customers.

TERMINOLOGY:

Customer
Consumer shopping for goods or services online.

eCommerce Website
We will design an eCommerce website to showcase your products in an innovative, attractive, user-friendly and secure format.

Shop
Customers can browse your virtual storefront and search for products by various categories including description, size, style, or color.

Database
A separate file that contains product information such as description, size, color, shipping and price. This also gives the merchant the ability to change certain products and not others. In addition, the database contains order history and customer data.

Place Order
Customer can pick what they would like to buy and have a chance to edit order information.

Check Out
Buy your order, provide billing and shipping information.

Bank / Merchant Account
This is the merchant's bank, where monies the customer paid for product will be deposited.

Customer Account
This is the customer's credit card account. Monies are reserved, then deducted from this account and deposited into the merchant account.

Credit Card Verification
A credit card service will provide authentication, authorization and settlement of financial transactions.

Authentication - ensures credit cards the merchant is accepting have valid numbers, have actually been issued, are not reported stolen, and verifies billing addresses given match the customer credit card address.

Authorization - checks if funds are available for purchase. If funds are available, a reserve is put on them.

Settlement - once products are shipped/delivered, customer bank is notified. The customer's bank releases funds previously reserved, and money is deposited into the website's merchant account.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
Placed on the merchant website server, this industry standard for encryption creates a secure transaction environment for commerce over the internet. SSL technology encrypts customer information, including credit card numbers, and can only be decrypted by the server where the SSL key resides.

Order Confirmation
An email letter sent to the customer to verify an order has been received. This may also include shipping information.

Fulfillment & Delivery
A warehouse where merchant's products are picked, packed and shipped to customer. All information from the website to customer to fulfillment is transmitted digitally.