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Cost Effective Ecommerce Solutions.
Cost Effective Ecommerce Solutions.
By Anthony Jewell, Sat Dec 10th
Ecommerce use to be about spending thousands of dollars onsetting up your shop and hundreds of dollars on getting amerchant. My, how things have changed over the years. Now anyonewith a few hundred of dollars in their pocket(or less if youhave the time to learn it yourself) can have a great workingecommerce system up and running in the matter of days. This alsoincludes the full ability to accept payments from Credit Cards,manage customers, create invoices and more. The most cost effective solution on the market todayis Oscommerce.com . Why is it so cost effective, well because itis free. All you need to do is learn it yourself or get someonewho works in the web world(a web designer or programmer) to setit up for you. This can run you anywhere’s from $500-$900, giveor take a bit depending on the features you want and if you wantit integrated into a custom built design. In a all in onesolution you can set up products to sell, have a visitor sign upand pay via the osc(oscommerce) payment section, create aninvoice for that client as well as deliver the product(if it canbe transferred via email) or create a packing slip to be mailedout. These are just some of the features located in oscommerce. Another great feature about oscommerce is that you can integrateit to fit right into your site design. If you view my site atwww.Logo2D.com and click one of the links at the top(such aslogo templates) you can see that it fits snugly into the design.You can customize any part of oscommerce including the buttonsfor the shopping cart. It is a really great program to use.
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was getting somethingthat would process payment. Payment was a big issue as before itwas very costly to get a merchant account, which usually costaround $400USD. Also you had to pay a % of every sale you made,which can really add up. Today there are two great forms of payment that can be added toOscommerce as your payment modules, they are Paypal.com and2Checkout.com . These two options are a great way to go.Paypal.com is free to sign up, has over 78 Million accounts,only charges a small % of each sale/payment, can be funded byyour credit card or bank account if you want to purchasesomething online and any sales you get you can take straightdown into your bank account. Though the user does have to have apaypal account to pay you, but with 78 Million Accounts, you cansee that is no problem. 2Checkout.com doesn't offer as many features in the way as youbeing able to purchase products offline, but it is great ifsomeone is purchasing products off of you. It allows you to takepayments via credit card and the customer doesn't even have tohave a 2checkout.com account. It only takes a small % off whenyou take money down into your account. The only down side to2checkout.com is that there is a one time fee of $49 to purchasea membership and they only send payment out twice a month(themiddle of the month and the end of the month). So really notmuch of a downside at all. So combine these three options and you can have a fullyfunctional website up for only a few hundreds ofdollar! About the author:Anthony Jewell has over 6 Years experience in the Web & GraphicsWorld. You can visit my business at http://www.logo2d.com ©Copyright 2005 Logo2D.com : Feel free to use this articlefreely but please keep in the copyright
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