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Competition on the Internet can be brutal, since your customers can immediately compare your prices with your competitors. The key to keeping customers coming back again and again is to offer better service at a better price. While many web hosting companies offer "shopping cart" software, they don't offer much in the way of back office support. For a smaller store, this isn't much a problem, but as store grows larger and larger, keeping up with inventory and smoothly moving information between your Internet based systems and your business' internal systems can become a real problem.
Businesses doing business on-line have all of the problems of their brick and mortar counterparts, and they need to deal transparently with the challenges imposed by being able to do business by computer. The issues of security, reliability, and scalability all need to be addressed since otherwise your customers will punish your business mercilessly by taking their business to your competitors.
With these problems in mind, we have taken the standard e-Commerce package offered by other web hosting firms and have added a couple of missing pieces to make it easier to deal with issues such as data exchange with your internal systems, and synchronizing your on-line versus your off-line inventory information. NWD Hosting offers several options for data exchange between your external web storefront and your internal systems, including automated file transfers, database conduits like ODBC and JDBC, and full-blown encrypted VPN connections.
A good storefront also needs to be able securely accept payment via a variety of mechanisms. Both of our standard e-commerce storefronts can interoperate with a variety of payment mechanisms from accepting credit cards via Authorize.net or CardService International, among others, to being able to accept personal checks via PayPal. We have worked hard to make dealing with the complexities of e-Commerce as simple as possible. Within a matter of hours, we can have a storefront set up for your business with its own unique customized look and feel. Unlike other web hosts, we do not set your charges based on the number of items in your electronic storefront -- the price is always the same, whether there is one item or 1 million items in your on-line catalog.
For those merchants that have highly specialized needs, we also offer Miva Merchant as an alternative to Interchange, osCommerce, and ZenCart for a small additional fee. For information about accepting credit cards and other forms of payment on-line, click here.
For those who are serious about making money using e-Commerce, this is the best plan around. We started with the great features in our "Shared" plan, and added on some industrial strength software that every Internet merchant needs. Whether your business sells 10 items or 10,000, this is the plan that can handle it. Our "Merchant" plan includes the following features:
For more information about setting up an on-line store, including information about the web storefront software packages that are supported by NWD Hosting, and information about payment gateways, please click here.
| Monthly | Semi-Annually | Yearly | |
| Cost: | $ 75.00 | $ 425.00 | $ 825.00 |
| Set-up fee: | $ 30.00 | $ 15.00 | Free |
Click here to see Frequently Asked Questions & answers about setting up a web hosting account with NWD Hosting.
