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A shopping cart website will open up a whole new market place for your business. If you have an existing customer base it will increase the value of sales to them.We will create a style to suit your business and even put a batch of your products on the website to get you up and running.

Your online admin system that enables you to manage your products, customers, orders and even stock control.

Concept - how does eCommerce work?
eCommerce is easy. You provide the products or services you wish to sell online, we provide the interface for people to buy from your website. Payment is made through a third-party industry-standard secure payment system that keeps the purchasers details encrypted and safe. Once payment is confirmed you send out the goods. Easy!

STATS: Surveys completed by the Office of National Statistics show astounding figures for internet sales. It's good news for businesses selling online, with the value of Internet sales to UK households rising fourfold to £21.4 billion between 2002 and 2005.

Solution - what technology do we use?
The 'engine' behind our shopping cart websites is osCommerce. osCommerce is an incredibly sophisticated application but because it is 'Open Source' software the underyling code remains accessible. This also means it is continuously supported by an international community of expert developers and is constantly being updated and refined.

We have spend literally hundreds of hours refining the application and tailoring it to suit our market to make it easier for both you to work with and your customers to buy through.

The shopping cart website we develop for you will be yours to own. You pay only a small annual hosting fee. We provide unlimited help and support via email and telephone.

Secure Payments - is the transaction safe?
If you already take credit cards through your business you need to apply for Internet Merchant Status with your bank. The Payment Service Provider we use is SECPay as they offer an oustanding service and integrate with all the high street banks. SECPay's role is to process securely, all your credit card transactions. The handle this seamlessley through their own web-interface, hand-shaking with the card issuer and your bank and then returning your customer to your website to complete the order process.

Alternative Payment Service Providers are PayPal; one of the largest and most recognised secure transaction companies in the world (now owned by eBay) and Google Chrckout, a relative newcomer but Google being Google they do the job particularly well and offer an extremely competitive service. In both cases account setup is pretty well instant and free. You pay only standard fees per transaction as you would with any other provider.

Online credit card transactions are far safer than handing your card over in a restaurant or shop, yet we do that all the time. The world is becoming used to paying online for goods and services.

See a live, working demo...
These demonstration shopping cart websites enable you to see what your customers will see when they buy from your website. Obviously we will create a design and style to suit your own business but here you'll get a feel for the way the system work and its features:

What does all this cost ...
The low-cost of this outstanding product belies its high specification.

With a total price of only £2200.00 you'll be recovering on your investment sooner than you think. To make things even easier for you we also have a simple payment plan; all we ask is a 30% deposit and the balance can be paid monthly in 5 equal instalments.