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In 2007 UK Online sales rose fivefold from 2007 to a staggering 51 Billion Pounds! Forecasts are that in the next five years this level of sales will triple! More than two thirds of the UK population now have broadband access and nearly all of those people have now bought online. To survive and prosper in this increasingly technological world an ecommerce store is almost an essential for anyone selling, even for local customers! We have experience in a number of different eCommerce solutions and will happily discuss with you the various options and guide you to the best solution for your business be it a bespoke design, an off the shelf package, or an configurable store that can simply be rented. To successfully sell online you will also need to be able to offer online payments either in your own right or via on online credit card processing company such as Secpay, Paypal or WorldPay. The online credit card processors do tend to charge a higher commission rate than the UK bank credit card processors but they do allow you to quickly setup a eMerchant account and also do not require your own SSL secure connection. If, however you already process your own credit card transactions via a UK Bank then it is better to use this account and obtain a Secure Socket Layer to give your site that very impressive padlock in the corner of your browser. This certification process means that your customer's credit card data is transmitted to your webserver in a secure fashion and is unobtainable by anyone else other than you. With all the websites we design in addition to this all credit card date is stored in an encrypted format within a secure database with admin facilities to even delete that secure data once the card details have been processed. An online store has many advantages over a normal high street retail outlet in that you can be open 24 hours a day to the whole world and also be able to maintain stock and sales records along with being able to respond instantly to market changes with the use of special offers and discounts. You can be a very small concern operating from your kitchen and yet appear as a large organisation. You can also display colour images of all your stock and could even include movies! Due to the number of small startup businesses requiring cheap and easy to use ECommerce websites we have now produce a fully functional ECommerce website for £399.00 including a years Website Hosting and all the facilities you need to sell online including your domain email address, full visitor stats and proper search engine optimisation. Examples of fully featured sites built by us can be seen here or here. If you only have a few products to sell than perhaps an example of a simple site that uses PayPal's Shopping Cart may be of interest and this can be viewed here.
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