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:: e-commerce and Shopping Carts ::.

If you want to sell your products online or collect recurring membership dues, we can set up a "shopping cart" for your web site.  We can also set up an Order Management System and/or Product Management System where the merchant [you] can manage all aspects of store administration through a web browser.  Shopping carts can vary from simple to very complex. The features that you need in your e-commerce site will determine its complexity.

We offer three shopping cart solutions for our customers varying in their initial and recurring investment, their complexity and the degree to which the merchant can easily manage the store.

PayPal Solution:

For new ventures, for customers with a handful of products and no certainty that they will sell online.  Cheapest solution, low initial investment, no recurring fees, accept credit cards, no merchant account needed, usually less than 10 products, all order payment info via PayPal.

monstercommerce.com Solution:

For customers with an established product line, established market and some certainty that the products will sell online.  A full blown 3rd party shopping cart solution with all concievable features, including unlimited products, product management, order management, real-time shipping rate calculations, multi-level taxes, upsell, wish list, web statistics, etc.  Basically your own mini amazon.com ... You pay us a few hundred dollars to set up and configure your basic site after which you take over site management and pay monstercommerce.com a monthly fee (about $80.00) to utilize their shopping cart, web hosting and tech support.  Also pay a 3rd party credit card processor a monthly fee.

Pros:  Your not committed for more than 2 months if it doesn't work out, tech support is free.
Cons:  You don't own the shopping cart so if you bail out and want to try again later, you lose your work and start from scrach.

Custom Solution:

Most customizable solution, built from scratch by us with industry standard shopping cart software.  Tell us what features you need, we build the cart.  Moderate initial investment ($1,000.00 minimum) with no recurring fees besides the 3rd party credit card processor (which isn't necessary if you use PayPal).

Pros:  You own the shopping cart and can use it for something else.

Summary

As you can begin to see, things aren't as simple as handing a web designer your paper catalog and telling them to create an online store overnight. There are good reasons that adding a shopping cart to your site takes time, planning and an investment in a variety of new technologies.