Canada's eCommerce Opportunity
This brief takes an updated view of the Canadian e-commerce landscape and provides insight for online retailers to help craft future Canadian customer strategies.
Canadian eCommerce growth was recently flat but still has an...
eCatalog - a Key Component of Your eCommerce Initiative
In recent years, Internet virtually has become major driving force of economic and technological growth in many industries. It is fundamentally changing the way companies operate, do their trade and interact with each other and it is giving birth...
Ecommerce Hosting Considerations
Website hosting can be a complex undertaking. Determining how much space you need, how much transfer, finding a reliable host, and getting everything online is no simple task. Add ecommerce to the mix and things become even more complex. This...
Hosting Options for an Ecommerce Web Site
Deciding how to host your ecommerce Web site and what approach to take can be daunting. There are several approaches available, each with different advantages and disadvantages.
Storefronts
If you have a small business, you may want to...
Surviving the Ecommerce Competition
Just as putting up any other business, e-commerce has also its own trade secrets. Not applying those trade secrets could detrimental to the survival of an e-commerce site.
While many webmasters believe that content is king, if you only depend on...
According to searchmerchants.com, there are an infinite number
of choices for accepting payments online. You can accept online
payments from an ECommerce Web site in two general ways.
1) Through your own online merchant account 2) Through a third
party online payment processor.Accepting Payments Online through
your own Internet Merchant Account
Accepting payments online via a merchant account puts you in
control and limits your reliability on outside payment
acceptance services. Besides an Internet merchant account, you
will need shopping cart software, a store or site host, a
processor, and a secure payment gateway. You may fit these
pieces together in several different ways. On one end of the
spectrum, you can choose the provider for each piece
individually. On the other end, you may choose a turnkey
solution, where a single provider has completed the puzzle for
you. There is no single best solution. Your choice will depend
on your particular needs
and experience. Among other
considerations, you should factor in your own comfort with the
technologies, customer convenience, providers' service levels,
available technical support, reliability, costs, and time
commitment involved.
Accepting Payments Online through a Third Party Online Payment
ProcessorIf you are not ready to set up your own online merchant
account and/or you want to offer additional online payment
options, you can turn to a variety of third party online payment
processors. Third party online payment processors provide a way
to accept payments online without the extra cost and obligation
of a merchant account. To compensate, transaction fees and/or
discount rates are significantly higher than for merchant
accounts.
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