
Offering
your products and services for sale
online has gotten easier, cheaper, and much more user friendly
- especially with CartXpress (based on OsCommerce). Time-tested
by beginners and experts, and constantly
improved by the online opensource community - it's one of the
most popular shopping carts available. CartXpress is FREE with
our Power and Enterprise
Plans , and you can also add CartXpress shopping cart to
a CyberSeat Basic or Advanced account for $15 a month plus a
one-time $25 setup fee.
Please Note: We have discontinued offering Miva Merchant.
There are a handful of basic steps you need to follow in order
to get your ecommerce hosting and shopping cart up and running
and begin to receive online sales:
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Get
a Merchant Account and a Payment Gateway: Merchant
accounts allow/authorize you to take credit cards, and
gateways facilitate the process online. We have 2 suggestions
for both - check with your current banking partner, if
you have an established relationship with them it can
be a great place to start.
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Add Secure SSL (HTTPS) Capability: In
order to take credit card information from your customers
you will need to have secure order and cart pages - pages
beginning with "https" and having that familiar
"lock" in the lower right corner of the browser
window. All CyberSeat hosting customers have FREE access
to the use of our server secure certificates - see SSL
Security for more details. If you would like
to purchase your own SSL certificate, for "https://yourdomain.com"
type URLs, contact us at noc[at]cyberseat.net . GeoTrust
certs use industry standard 128-bit encryption, and are
available for $99/year - that's $200 less than the Verisign
cert!