Ecommerce Solutions and Software

Many ecommerce website solutions and software are available to help you build an online store.

If you are going to take orders over the internet which require the use of credit card transactions, there are a few services which you will have to acquire.

You'll need an active checking account or a merchant account , internet payment gateway, shopping cart and if running your business on your own server or third party web hosting account, you'll need to protect it with SSL and digital certificates.

These services can be purchased separately at a very high cost through companies like VeriSign.

Most of these services can be purchased at the same time from an ecommerce web site design service that specializes in setting up businesses for credit card transactions.

If you have a bank account and are a US citizen over the age of 18 some will even provide free merchant accounts, shopping cart and database software for handling your accounts.

There are many ecommerce services of this type on the internet. We recommend that before you decide to use one of them, you check out some of the stores that are running on their servers. Find out what kind of support they offer.

You can get a lot of these services for the cost of a transaction fee at paypal.com