Establishing an e-commerce website or setting up to sell products or services online is usually thought of as a complicated and expensive task. This does not have to be the case.
Netports offers a number of e-commerce solutions, most of which are embedded into all our hosting services that can provide you with all you need to start trading on the interest safely and securely.
However, the following three e-commerce specific hosting packages come complete with dedicated IP address, a Rapid SSL certificate and free optional shopping cart installation and set up.
These e-commerce tuned hosting accounts are located on our legendary 
Failover Clustered hosting system so you know your online enterprise will have everything it needs.
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ECOM-One
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ECOM-Three
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250 MB
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500MB
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750MB
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15GB
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20GB
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25GB
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$66.00
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$77.00
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| osCommerce Shopping Cart (incl Install) |
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| Zen Cart Shopping Cart (incl Install) |
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| Agora Shopping Cart |
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| SPECIAL - Discount Coupon for the ^e-Path credit card payment gateway as well as free professional integration into osCommerce, Zen Cart shopping carts or normal web form based check-out purchasing system. |
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^ E-Path is a new generation manual payment gateway where you need a manual merchant account at a bank to charge credit cards e-Path has safely handled on your website or shopping cart. Learn more: e-Path Credit Card Payment Gateway
Note: In the case of osCommerce and Zen Cart shopping carts, Netports includes instillation and configuring to Australian currency and GST.
Shopping Carts
All website hosting accounts from the 50MB size plans upwards come with a choice of shopping cart programs you can install easily from inside your cPanel™. These are included free of charge for you to make use of.
These shopping carts are some of the most powerful systems available and are complete online store management systems that are used the world over by both small and large businesses to sell on the internet. For example, Google™ use the osCommerce shopping cart to power their Google™ Store (http://www.googlestore.com). The osCommerce shopping cart is all inclusive when you host with Netports!!
And you are not limited to using just one, if your hosting plan allows it you can run multiple shopping carts thereby enabling you to further expand your internet business. Netports Australia provides the e-commerce software that is not only powerful, but also easy to use and is supported by global open source communities.
Visit the demos:
osCommerce (with integrated e-Path payment gateway demonstration)
Zen Cart with integrated e-Path payment gateway demonstration)
Credit Card Payment Gateway
A credit card payment gateway enables you to accept credit card payments from your website or shopping cart. There are three main types of credit card payment gateways:
- Real Time - A real time credit card payment gateway communicates directly with your merchant account at your bank to process the credit card payment made on your website in real time (live), even without you knowing. Its fast, convenient and doesn't require any involvement from you. However, you have little to no control - anyone anywhere can perform a transaction on your site and it will be dealt with live.
A real time payment gateway requires you to have a specific type of merchant account facility from a bank. Combined they represent a very expensive system to accept credit cards online.
"Real time" payment gateways are ideal for businesses that transact large numbers of credit card payments per month but may not usually be a viable option for small to medium businesses because of cost considerations and to a point, because of security concerns. The singular advantage of a real time or live credit card payment gateway is automation.
- Manual Credit Card Payment Gateway - The new manual gateway alternative is quickly becoming the system of choice for small to medium sized businesses on a limited budget. Accepting online credit card payments are performed in exactly the same way as a real time gateway except the actual credit card charge is performed by you, manually into your merchant account facility at your bank. Hans the name "Manual" payment gateway.
While there is no automation or processing of credit cards with the manual system there are quite a number of security advantages for the merchant and credit card holder that can not be matched by a typical "real time" gateway system. The least of which is that you as the merchant have control over what you charge into your merchant account and what you don't charge. On the card holders side the distinct security advantage is nothing is permanently stored on the internet with these new manual payment gateways. No names, no numbers, no dates, nothing. This is very different to the typical "real time" payment gateway which does permanently store data from transactions on their web servers.
A manual merchant account facility at a bank that will enable you to charge credit cards you receive via your manual payment gateway will cost you in the area of only $29.00 per year plus the usual bank % transaction fees. So not only is the manual gateway system the least expensive but the manual merchant account at the bank to make it all happen is also inexpensive as well. Combined, this system represents the most inexpensive and perhaps the safest of all methods to accept credit cards online. But as we mention the actual charging of credit cards is performed manually.
Two of the worlds leading new breed of manual payment gateways are right here in Australia.
E-PATH PTY LTD - The e-Path Credit Card Payment Gateway
PAYECOM PTY LTD - Payecom Internet Payment Gateway
Because of the added security these new manual gateways affords the merchant as well as ordinary credit card paying customers, Netports ourselves utilise the e-Path Credit Card Payment Gateway for all online credit card payment authorisations on this website.
- All in One (Gateway + Merchant Account) - These services are usually handled by global organisations
These gateways can require the least "trouble" to set up and can be a very effective way to accept credit cards on your website if you are unable to open up a merchant account facility at a bank or your application for a normal credit card payment gateway is declined.
Typically these services are costly with high transaction fees, monthly fees and extra costs that may involve currency conversion or even costs associated with depositing funds into your account.
Essentially, your credit card paying customers are not dealing with you, they are dealing with the payment organisations, subsequently, the Biller name on your customers credit card statement will the name of the provider and not you, for example PayPal.
That aside, this method remains a highly popular alternatives if you experience difficulty elsewhere. But expect to pay quite a bit and you will not have the same control over your system as you do with either a real time payment gateway of a manual credit card payment gateway.
Merchant Account
A merchant account is a type of business account provided by a bank that settles the credit card charge. There are different types of merchant accounts available. Ones that work with "real time" payment gateways are by far the most expensive, whereas manual (MOTO) merchant account facilities are ideal for manual payment gateways such as e-Path and Payecom are the least expensive. In fact if you already have an EFTPOS terminal you can start accepting credit cards on your website or shopping cart straight away with either e-Path and Payecom with approval from your bank.
For more information on the various credit card payment gateways available, all of which work seamless with any Netports Australia hosting account, visit Australian Credit Card Payment Gateway Guide.
To join a friendly online community where e-commerce is all they ever talk about, try visting the new e-CommerceTalk.com.au forums.
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