Ecommerce Web Hosting
and web site development

Click Here for information on how to get a low cost domain name for your ecommerce store

Step 2- Sign Up for Ecommerce Web Hosting

WebBusiness can provide you with storage space for your ecommerce web site and a shopping cart is provided so that you can input your product information.

Click Here to for Information on our Low Cost Web Site Hosting Prices for Ecommerce WebHosting

Step 3 - After obtaining your Ecommerce Web Hosting Design Your Online Ecommerce Store

Create an ecommerce store that displays your products, describes them and indicates the cost, sizes, etc. You can create the ecommerce site yourself, have a web designer do it for you or use a pre-designed template.

In setting up your e-commerce web store, one should take the following into consideration:

• How many products do you wish to display and the type of products.

• Do you have  pictures of products and the ability to scan them to place on the Internet and/or a digital camera. (the pictures will need to saved in a "jpeg (jpg)" or "gif" format.  One can use the graphics software that comes with your scanner or digital camera to edit and save in the proper formats.

• Prices of items and also discounts or specials, if applicable

• The ability to input information for a database that includes:  Item Number, Product ID, Description, Price, Weight (if applicable for UPS shipping rates)...

Step 4- Accepting Credit Card Transactions via the Internet for your Ecommerce Store

Options for Accepting Credit Cards:

Option 1 - If you don't have the ability to process credit cards already, you will need to set up a merchant account through a  bank that accepts Internet transactions so you can process your orders for your online ecommerce store.

Also, understand that if you are already able to process credit cards in your retail business,  you cannot assume that your current bank will allow you to accept internet orders.   You need to  talk to them first to see if they allow the processing of ecommerce type orders.   Most of the time they will not .

Option 2 - Third Party Online Ecommerce  Credit Card Processors

May we suggest that you click on the following banner and sign up with an ecommerce merchant who specializes in working with companies who want to accept credit cards for their Internet transactions.

Option 3 - Online Payment Services for your Ecommerce Store

A popular and widely used service is Paypal.  With this service, your ecommerce customers will be able to send you money without having to utilize a credit or debit card.

Note:  A lot of online ecommerce merchants will provide options for their ecommerce customers and provide both the ability to utilize credit cards and a service like Paypal.

Step 5- Advertise Your Online Ecommerce Store

Once your ecommerce site is online, you will need to let others know about it by advertising.  You can use various media, i.e. newspapers, radio, TV, cable, flyers, etc.   Also, it will be important to register your web site with search engine companies and directories.  Some of the  popular search engine sites and directories  include Yahoo, Google, WebCrawler, Altavista, AOLfind, and Lycos   Click here for  our Site Promotion Tools and access to the search engine registration pages.