Give Your
Website Purchasing Power with CVC's Shopping Cart
 CVC
Internet, LLC provides a wide variety of shopping
cart
solutions that can be customized to your business
needs.
With a powerful
catalog and e-commerce application you can
display and sell your
goods and services online 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, year around. Merchant gateways for
credit card processing of Visa, MasterCard,
American Express, PayPal, and a variety of other
payment methods, provide your customers with a fast
and
convenient way to make an online purchase.
Easy-to-control interfaces and a feature-rich program
that allows store owners to set-up, run, and maintain
their online stores with minimum effort.
Customer Functionality
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Customer
Accounts |
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Customer
Address Books (other shipping destinations) |
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Order
History |
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Search
Catalog for Products or Manufacturers |
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Product
Reviews by Customers |
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E-mail
Notifications |
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Foreseen
Checkout Procedure |
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Secure
Transactions with SSL Certificate |
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Number
of Products in each Category |
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Bestseller
Lists |
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Customer
Purchased Display List |
Administrative Functionality
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New
Design for User-Friendliness |
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Add/Edit/Remove
Categories, Products,
Manufacturers, Customers, and Reviews |
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Categories-to-Categories
Structure |
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Statistics
for Products and Customers |
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Dynamic
Product Attributes |
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Tax
Zones, Classes, and Rates |
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Configure
Parameters in Database for Remote Editing |
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Payment
and Shipping Modules |
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Connection
to oanda.com’s Currency Rate Servers |
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Decide
What to Display in the Product Listings |
 What is E-Commerce?
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) is
an electronic business transaction. Electronic
e-commerce
is the buying/selling of products and/or services over the Internet.
To
conduct business on the Internet you will need an
E-Commerce Website. An e-commerce Website can be as simple as a catalog
with an order form, or it can be a complex multimedia enabled
Website
with real-time credit card processing capabilities. The Internet has enabled
merchants to offer their goods and services to potential customers around the world
24 hrs. a day, 365 days a year. E-commerce offers customers the
opportunity to browse, select and pay for goods in real time from the comfort of
their own home or office.
E-commerce supplements the traditional selling
channels and attracts customers that you never knew existed. The Internet revolution
is affecting every company, no matter it’s size.
Business of all sizes can
equally share in the benefits of e-commerce, but they are all equally vulnerable to
being left behind if they do not adopt the new business models.
Website versus E-Commerce
Site
A
Website presents prospective customers with information, and purchasing options available off-line. On the other hand an E-Commerce
Website not
only presents all the required service and
product information, but
it also provides
secure options to complete the sale
online.
A Website is like a copy of your printed catalog
presenting information, whereas an e-commerce
Website is a business unit that
complements your existing traditional selling channels and accentuates an
entirely new sales/distribution channel.
A Website offers limited security options. On
the other hand, e-commerce Websites provide options for high levels of security by
encrypting data and transferring it over secure servers.
A Website operates entirely outside your
existing business system. All orders have
to be manually entered into the system and processed
off-line. Whereas an e-commerce Website integrates into your existing system for inventory
control, order processing,
and order fulfillment. A fully integrated e-commerce
Website automatically ties into your existing business process and acts
like an extension to your existing sales force.
What
do I need for E-Commerce?
Choose
Payment Options:
Off-Line
Credit Card Processing -
This is a good option if you currently
have a Merchant Account with a local bank and
process in-store charges using a swipe terminal. Your customers' credit card information
is captured and stored on our server for later authorization and
transaction processing through a
traditional card swipe terminal or through a computer. If
you are clearing more than 100 transactions a month, you may want to consider the
real-time payment processing option.
Real-Time
Payment Processing enabled by Merchant Accounts
- To process credit cards transactions in real time through
your Website you will need to:
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Open
a TEST Merchant Account with a financial
institution. |
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Open a Merchant Account with a financial
institution after the Test Account has proven successful. |
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Sign up with a payment
gateway, for example Card Services or
CyberCash Merchant Accounts which give
you the ability to take credit card
information |
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from prospective customers over the Internet. E-commerce
software offer seamless integration with our online payment gateways
providing you with a completely integrated e-commerce solution. |
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MERCHANT ACCOUNTS are
issued through an Authorizing Bank. A Merchant Account is like a Drivers License.
Though you have a driver’s license |
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you can’t move around without a vehicle. Similarly
for you to use your Merchant Account you need a vehicle to move the information around. For
example, you could ask your Website prospects to call you on the phone to
place their orders. Now the phone is your vehicle to move their Credit Card
information |
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ONLINE
SHOPPING CART SOFTWARE is another example of
a vehicle to move Credit Card and ordering information. Your
customers can efficiently order 24 |
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hours a day. Also a Shopping Cart eliminates some potential
for error as there is only one human involved in the process rather than
two. The Shopping Cart is a vehicle that enables you to: Get the ordering
information from the customer, verify via email to the customer that his order has been
placed, and deliver the notification and ordering information to the seller. |
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What
are the advantages of Online/Electronic
Transactions?
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Reduces Errors:
No need to enter transaction amounts at both the cash
register and processing terminals. |
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Creates Transaction Database: Stores
transaction information in your database for as long as you want. You’ll never have to
search for lost transaction information. |
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Increases Accountability: It is easy to
confirm whether you have received the proper amount of credit for each transaction. |
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Minimizes Fraud: Performs address
verification (AVS), and eliminates the
chance of shipping to someone using a stolen credit card,
saving you from a charge back. |
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Quicker Transactions: Allows you to send
multiple transactions as a batch, thus reducing authorization time to as low as
three seconds per transaction |
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Lowers Transaction Costs:
Electronic processing is faster and less expensive
than paper processing |
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Faster Billing: Makes
it easy to build and process a batch of transactions
as often as needed; great for recurring billing. |
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Recurring Billing:
Schedule transactions to be processed according to your specific billing requirements. |
How
do I get started?
 Everyone
is talking about the great potential of doing business over the Internet, but the biggest
question for numerous individuals/businesses is
"how to get started?"
The
best suggestion is start with one of our
simple entry-level plans and then grow exponentially. The advantage here is
that you have time to get comfortable with this new selling channel and also test
drive the chosen application model for your business. We offer highly scalable
integrated solutions for starters as well as small to medium size businesses.
To help you get your business off the ground we
provide you complete solutions from domain name
registration, web hosting, e-commerce capabilities, web site
development and marketing services, and so much more.
First things first
you will need to register a domain name, for that
CVC Internet offers a variety of domain name registrations
starting at $1.00 a year - please visit
http://www.cvc.net/info/supersavers.html and
http://www.cvc.net/info/Domain_Registration.html. Next, you will need to determine which type of
e-commerce hosting account will work well for your business (determine
the number of products to sell online, process unsecured or secured transactions, accept
wire transfers, off-line credit card processing, or real time credit card
processing). Once the domain registration
is active and hosting account created, you
can upload individual web pages (product profiles, etc.) to
CVC Internet's servers using FTP, so that
prospective customers can view your products/services when they access your web
site. Then you need to decide how you want to accept payment for your products.
Depending on your decision; for real time credit card processing you will need to
sign-up for a Merchant Account (a list of osCommerce compatible payment modules
is available by request). Once your store is complete, CVC
Internet will submit the
site to 1.6 million worldwide search engines and directories, plus link list your Website
to our business page and the Klamath County
Business Directory and Service Guide - klamathcounty.com.
CVC Internet welcomes any questions that
you have about E-Commerce services, by calling (866) 877-1188 or e-mail
office@cvc.net,
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