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We offer ecommerce solutions based on your need and your
budget. Below are two of our most popular solutions. One is free and the other is a paying solution.
We currently have two cart offerings. Please click through to each cart's web page for more information. If you
are uncertain which cart is best for you, or if you want a quote for bundled e-commerce services, please fill out
our Consulting Form for a custom quote.
If you are a home-based or very small business, or you have only a limited number of items to sell, look first
at the free services.
A shopping cart is a program that allows online shoppers to select items and have all the selected items retained
in the web server's memory for check out. It also adds up the costs of the various items, adds tax and shipping
costs if applicable, and calculates the total amount of the purchase. Some more sophisticated shopping carts will
pull product lists from separate databases, allow you to specify special discounts for selected products, provide
transaction reports, among other things.
Selling products online usually requires the
ability to accept credit card payments. It has also become increasingly popular to accept electronic funds transfers
from checking accounts (EFT). If you do not currently accept credit cards, we can get you set up to accept them.
Free Shopping Cart Solution
The standard account is free. It offers a full featured
shopping cart with access to all the critical features that are required to start selling goods and services on
the internet.
What do you mean by free?
Free doesn't just mean no charge and no adverts but means freedom to choose the services you use to build
your business.
There is no limitation to the number of products you can have, the transactions you can process or the number of
hits the cart gets from your site.
The only possible charge we ever make is the the configuration of your account and setup of your products.
You can hire us to do this part of the work you if you are not knowledgeable enough. We will creat an account
for you and give you 100% control.
Finally unlike other free services we don't bind you into using a specific Merchant account for
credit cards arranged through the service. Since a merchant account can cost anything up to $500 or more to set-up,
you are genuinely "free" to shop around and get the best deal. We feel that our merchant account solution
bundled with the free cart and website setup is a great bundle!
How the service works
All you have to do is add simple "Buy Now"
links or buttons on any page on your website. These can be made from a form button, a text hyperlink or even your
own image:
Once a customer places an order you are notified immediately by email. The email will contain details of what they
ordered. To collect the payment details, you must log in to Mal's e-commerce and download them using an SSL secure
browser. You can be up and running in minutes; see the step by step set-up guide.
Your cart, as seen by your customers, is advertisement free except that I place a logo, and a link, on every page.
The logo is subject to change from time to time but it will always be discreet.
If you wish to have credit cards processed in real time then you will need to use a Payment Gateway such as Authorizenet,
Cybercash, Signio, Secpay or Worldpay. This will require a Premium account which costs $6.00 per month but you
are free to shop around the merchant account vendors to get the best deal. The choice is yours.
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