e-Commerce
Last year, online sales exceeded $100 billion, excluding travel. Why wait any longer?
E-commerce is huge, and is increasing by 20 - 25% every year. It's no wonder. Selling online has so many advantages -- global reach, 24/7 availability, low overhead, and unmatched flexibility are just a few of the benefits.
If you're ready to step into the exciting world of Ecommerce, Spritz can
help. Choose from a wide variety of solutions and features, and get the
expertise and
guidance you need to navigate the complexities of an eCommerce
solution.
For Small to Mid-Sized Businesses
If you need a full-blown, feature-laden electronic storefront, you can expect all the options you need for premium eCommerce functionality. You'll need to start with these 4 components:
1. Secure, Online Shopping Cart: We can customize and implement a variety of open source and commercially available carts. Based on your needs, we'll select just the right one for you.
2. Merchant Account: You need a special
merchant account for payment processing through the
Internet.
We can assist you with all of your
electronic payment processing needs -- establishing a merchant
account, selecting the appropriate virtual terminal/payment gateway
software, and more. We are authorized partners of Newtek
Business Services, and can assist you with a full range of other services,
as well.
3. Payment Gateway: Select from a variety of available payment gateways, or let us recommend one for you. We support most gateways, including Authorize.Net, WorldPay, USAePay, VeriSign, 2Checkout, LinkPoint, and many others.
4. SSL Digital Certificate: You can take advantage of an economical, shared certificate by X-Ramp if you choose a hosting plan from Spritz. Other options include dedicated certificates from Thawte, VeriSign and others.
Spritz eCommerce Solution: Features and Options
Naturally, you'll want your eCommerce component to integrate seamlessly into the rest of your site. Research indicates that a successful e-Commerce site must also sport a user-friendly layout and full feature set. Based on your requirements, Spritz will implement a solution that includes any or all of these features:
- Product Mgmt
- Marketing
- Processing
- Administration
- Customer
- Unlimited category depth
- Assign products to multiple categories
- Electronic Downloads for virtual products
- Multiple product options and attributes (size, color, format, etc)
- Custom configurations for products
- Image manipulation capabilities (thumbnails, zoom, 3D, etc)
- New products feature
- Catalog Search
- Ability to hide products
- Low stock alerts
- Inventory management with backorder capbilities
- Multiple pricing levels
- Discount coupons
- Quantity discounts
- Group discounts
- One-time charges
- Free shipping capability
- Prices by attribute
- Minimum & maximum purchase
- Gift certificates
- Gift wrapping/notes
- Referral tools
- Cross-selling
- Newsletter capabilities
- Product reviews
- Featured products
- Wish list feature
- Real-time credit card authorization
- Online shipping integration with UPS, DHL, USPS and FedEx
- Automatic tax calculations
- Automatic shipping calculations
- Automatic currency conversions
- Data import and export
- Real-time inventory management
- Virtual Terminal
- Web-based administration console
- WYSWYG editing
- View & process orders online
- Automated order status emails/records
- Automatic shipping confirmation emails with tracking
- Print packing slips, receipts & invoices
- Variety of sales/activity/customer reports
- Easily enable or disable store features
- Returned Merchandise Authorization (RMA) system
- Account Login
- Ability to update profile
- View and change orders
- Email confirmations for order processing & shipping
- Live package tracking
- One-page checkout for repeat customers
Security
You
can sleep at night with an e-Commerce solution from Spritz. You'll have
the assurance of 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, and state-of-the-art
fraud protection. Security measures include Address Verification Service
(AVS) and card verification value 2 (CVV2). We will manage the complexities
of the mandatory PCI compliance validation for you. Additionally, we
can help you certify your e-Commerce website through ScanAlert's Hacker-Safe® certification
service.
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For Startups
If you sell a very limited number of products, your needs may be met by a simple, low-cost PayPal solution. We can also implement Google Checkout functionality for you, or assist you with several other options.
