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E-Commerce Hosting Explained
E-commerce Hosting usually refers to hosting
services that offer the ability to sale products or services
online using shopping carts and merchant
accounts. We recommend Free
Shopping Carts Software for your shopping cart
software needs.
An important component of any ecommerce website
is to have a secure website. This is done by purchasing a Secure
Certificate Software offered by many hosting or domain registrars.
You may have noticed the small lock sign that will appear on
the bottom of your browser when you shop from a secure site.
Another indication of a secure site is the URL address that
starts with "https://" instead of "http://."
We recommend GoDaddy for purchasing
discount secure certificates.
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eBay-owned online payment company, PayPal, is the
biggest E-commerce processor. They have surpassed 100 million accounts
across 55 markets worldwide. The growth reflects the rapid expansion
of PayPal's network across the global Internet, including the eBay
marketplaces, and online merchants across the Internet.
Jeff Jordan, President of PayPal commented on the news, ''This milestone
is a tremendous achievement for PayPal. We've spent the last seven
years building a very safe, easy and convenient way to pay online.
Our customers prefer to use PayPal because privacy is built right
into the service - they can shop online without sharing their financial
information with sellers.''
PayPal is popular with not only with online buyers, but also with
merchants. Shoppers prefer PayPal to send money, because it is fast
and easy to use, and their financial information is protected and
never shared with merchants or recipients. PayPal is also used by
millions of online merchants, including leading e-commerce sites around
the world. With PayPal, merchants can sell their goods to the millions
of proven online shoppers that prefer PayPal, often seeing an incremental
sales lift after adding PayPal to their sites.
The PayPal service was founded in 1999, ending that year with 12,000
accounts and $235,000 in total payment volume. In 2005, PayPal processed
more than $27 billion in total payment volume and exceeded $1 billion
in revenue. The company has localized services in 14 countries and
supports payments in seven currencies - U.S. Dollars, Canadian Dollars,
Australian Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling, Japanese Yen and Chinese
Yuan.
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