Ecommerce Hosting - How It Works

Website Source breaks the process down into five easy-to-understand, easy-to-implement steps towards ecommerce. And the best part is, at Website Source everything needed for ecommerce is included with your hosting plan.

A look ahead...your online store's launch date. Picture this: The storefront sparkles, the product catalog sizzles and the business side of the biz is under control. Let's launch. It's show time!

But wait. Now you have to actually run an on-line business. Major stumbling block? No, not with Website Source. You'll quickly track orders, determine which products sell and which don't, oversee customer accounts, monitor your traffic, identify buying trends and much more. Website Source makes it easy to run your online business day to day, leaving you more time to enjoy life and the fruits of your labor. Instead of spending hours each night watching 'the store', with a few clicks and a few minutes you're current on the day's activities.

Follow the Easy Ecommerce Steps:

Every plan we offer comes with fully equipped with ecommerce hosting features. Setup your online store by following these easy steps. Call or click and get started with your web hosting account. Order now.

Shopping Cart Software

We offer several different shopping carts and each one is a complete online storefront. Read more about ZenCart, Miva Merchant or osCommerce. The shopping cart that is included with your account is dependent on which hosting plan you choose. Not sure which shopping cart is included with your web hosting plan? Again, Website Source makes it easy. Which shopping cart is included with my hosting plan?

How do you take an order? What payment methods are available? Do you offer expedited shipping? How will you track orders?

A product order begins with a customer and a mouse click. From there, it moves to point A, then to point B, C & D - and it's up to you to eyeball that order from start to finish to ensure customer satisfaction at every step every time.

Website Source's ecommerce software streamlines the purchase and order fulfillment process. In just a few minutes, the 'back office' of your ecommerce biz is operational from end to end. Regardless of your experience in ecommerce, Website Source offers feature-rich, fully-customizable business ecommerce software to meet your specifications and your business objectives. Ideal for ecommerce businesses, shipping a few packages a day or hundreds an hour, this cost-saving software quickly puts you in the boss' chair.

Merchant Account

Free Authorize.net Payment Gateway is included with the No Setup Fee/No Monthly Fee Merchant account. You can begin to sell online and the proceeds from the sales will be deposited into your merchant account which will then be deposited into the bank account you specify. This is called real-time credit card processing. The ecommerce hosting plans and merchant account with payment gateway offer you the ability to access sales data from any browser; your transactions will be settled every day.

Secure Certificate

In order to take credit card information from your customers, you will need to have a secure certificate setup on your account. All Website Source - shared hosting customers receive free use of Website Source secure certificate! Virtual Private Server hosting customers will need to purchase a SSL certificate. We offer discount SSL certificates through LowPriceDomains.com (our sister company). All your "check out" pages within your web store will be secure. your customers will feel comfortable entering credit card information because their data will be encrypted for security.

Site Builder

All website hosting plans at Website Source include DesignPal and Site Studio for free. With hundreds of web templates to choose from, designing your website could not be easier! Or, if you prefer you can use any other website creation software. Website Source Hosting goes well-beyond standard hosting companies and offers many design options.

Marketing

All Website Source hosting accounts include the Website Marketing Tools free as well as many other tools to promote your domain. Studies show that over 90% of the search engine traffic to most websites comes from 8 to 10 of the top search engines.

At your online store, your customers will browse your pages, select some items, and then pay for them. When you set up an ecommerce shopping cart, you're providing a way for your customers to bring their purchases to the cash register. The program you choose will allow you to enter your products in the database and allow shoppers to choose products when they click on "Add to cart" or something similar.

In growing numbers, consumers use the Web to research and order purchases. Even purchases made offline are often the result of decisions made online. Having information online makes comparison shopping much easier than going from store to store. With the next supplier only a click or two away, online consumers comparison-shop a lot.

Website Source Hosting makes it a whole lot easier to setup and run your online biz. It's a time saver and problem solver you'll rely on as you grow your enterprise.