ThinkHost provides all our clients a full featured shopping cart package. This shopping cart
is just one of our many free bonuses!
The shopping cart software is OSCommerce;
a well supported free Open Source solution and currently used on thousands of ecommerce sites.
OSCommerce features:
Customer Functionality
» Customer accounts
» Customer address books (other shipping destinations)
» Order history
» Temporary (not logged on) and permanent (logged on) shopping carts
» Search catalog for products or manufacturers
» Product reviews by customers
» E-mail notifications
» Intuitive checkout procedure
» Secure transactions with SSL**
» Number of products in each category are shown
» Bestseller lists
» Display what related products other customers have purchased
Administrative Functionality
» New design for user-friendliness
» Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and
reviews
» Categories-to-categories structure
» Statistics for products and customers
» Dynamic product attributes
» Tax zones, classes, and rates
» Configuration parameters in database for remote editing
» Payment and shipping modules
» Connection to currency exchange rate servers for
multi-currency shops
» Decide what to display (and the order) in the product listings
» Backup tool
Compatible payment gateways
» 2Checkout
» PayPal
» Authorize.net
» iPayment
» psiGate
» TrustCommerce
» Other payment gateways available, enquire for details*
** If you require SSL for secure transactions, this is a premium add-on
service. If you are using PayPal or 2CheckOut, SSL is not required.
Don't have many products to sell?
If you are just starting out in e-commerce and need to be able to accept
credit card payments without putting a major dent in your budget or
valuable time, we suggest using PayPal's merchant tools!
Do you want/need one or more of the following for free?
» A multiple product shopping cart for physical or digital goods?
» A delivery system for digital goods such as software or ebooks?
» A one product, one-click "Buy Now" button?
» A merchant account?
» A payment gateway for Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex and eCheck?
» The ability to bill for subscriptions on a regular basis?
» Options to accept online donations?
» A solution fully compatible with your ThinkHost hosting account?
» Secure credit card processing?
» 100% fraud and chargeback protection!
» All of the above for free?
E-commerce implementation can be very complex and expensive - avoid the
stress and simply use the merchant services and free tools offered by PayPal! The
solutions offered by PayPal are compatible with ThinkHost web hosting packages.
Trusted by millions, processed billions
PayPal is utilized and trusted by over 3 million businesses around the world
and has processed well over US$6 billion in transactions!
PayPal
offers a wide range of free and easy to use tools, plus free account
setup and very reasonable rates on transactions. You only pay when you sell, as
low as 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction.
Full strength e-commerce in minutes
You can easily set up a full featured shopping cart within a very short space
of time, even if your knowledge of web page construction is very limited - PayPal
provides easy to follow, step by step instructions - it's just 8 simple
steps:
1. Log in to or create your free Premier or Business PayPal
account.
2. Click on the Sell tab
3. Click on the Shopping Cart link
4. Type the name, price, plus other details of an item you're selling
5. Add shipping, tax and options information (color, size)
6. Click the Create Button Now and your customized HTML code is generated
7. Paste the HTML code on your page for "Add to Cart" and "View Cart" buttons.
8. Add more items using steps 4-7
It is truly that easy!
If you have any questions about ThinkHost and PayPal, please don't hesitate
in contacting one of our friendly support team.
Are you looking for a more powerful premium e-commerce
solution? Perhaps
you would like to understand more about e-commerce transaction processes and
what happens behind the scenes? Learn
more here.
