Introduction: E-Commerce Hosting
Definition:
A business through the Internet is generally called ‘E-commerce’. E-commerce hosting is a selling way in which one company provides other companies anything they want to put their products and the service on the market via the World Wide Web including Server to supply company’s pages, possibly the designs of web pages, and the special service required to accept, process, verification and confirmation for the orders.
In short, we can say E-Commerce is a service that may develop and/or deploy an eCommerce strategy, process economic transactions, such as buying and selling electronically, or host for a site with a secure server for commercial transactions.
Also called: eCommerce Hosting, Electronic Commerce Services, and e-Commerce Hosting
e-commerce hosting usually includes providing templates for building essential storefronts or online catalogs, providing software for personalized electronic "shopping carts," taking and filling customer orders, arranging for secure credit-card purchasing, and providing tools for tracking and managing inventory.
E-commerce applications must be easy-to-use, secure, better performing and reliable. Hence, e-commerce hosting is all about how user transforms his website from simple static catalog into a full featured E-commerce website with advanced shopping cart capabilities. Host Popularity offers a wide range of E-commerce hosting solutions with integrated shopping cart and/or payment processing support to save you time & money.
An E-Commerce Hosting plan should include some basic features which are mentioned below:
• Hosted on Secure and Private Server.
• Unlimited Email Accounts and FTP logins.
• Scripting language with database support.
• CGI, Perl, PHP, MySQL, SSH, GuestBook support.
• SSL must be installed.
• File Editor, FrontPage Extension support.
• Forums and bulletin board
• PHP Nuke
• Shopping Cart : Agora or OsCommerce
• 24/7 Support.
• 99.9% Uptime Guarnatee.
• 24/7 Support.
Procedure:
Suppose, a customer is surfing the Internet for services and/or products, and he finds your website. Now he wants to purchase some products from your site. He places his product to shopping cart. If he wants to add some more items, he again adds any product to shopping cart. Now he decides to pay the cost of products. Once he has finished shopping from our website he will “CHECK OUT”. After Check Out; he has to fill out some information with Credit Card details on a page with SSL (Secured Socket Layer) to pay for his purchase. Once the credit card information fields are completely filled out, the customer will hit "Submit". This information is then transmitted to a Credit Card Transaction Provider for authorization. The order is then either declined or accepted. This process takes about three-five seconds. If the transaction is approved, the information is then transmitted to a merchant account. There it will stay for about 24 to 72 hours. The money that is in your merchant account will then be placed into your business account and you finally get the payment from customer.
-Alex R.
(Posted By Alex on Sunday, June 25, 2006)
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