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What in the blazes is E-Commerce? Electronic Commerce is one of the most important aspects of the internet to emerge.
It allows people to exchange goods and services immediately and with no barriers of time or distance. Any time of the day or night, you can go online and buy almost anything you want - even in your underwear.
Some key components to the E-Commerce Model:
- The online store
- The shopping basket
- The checkout
- The online customer data collection
- The shipping methods
- The credit card or payment methods
- The merchant account with your bank
The road to creating a successful online store can be a difficult and confusing one if you are unaware of the concepts and principles behind eCommerce. The trick to entering this market smoothly is to find out what you need to do before you have to do it. Thats where Fox Valley Web Design comes in...we offer a few solutions to get your products online quickly and integrated with your current website or one we create for you. The best thing about our E-Commerce solutions is you can handle the maintenance & updating yourself if you prefer. Some of our clients have us do the initial set up and then turn the store over to them and spend a few hours showing them the basics of running it themselves. Others prefer to have us handle the whole ball of wax. Either way, if you have products to sell we can help you get them online to millions of potential buyers. Contact us to get started.
Jump aboard - the wave of the future is cruising through a computer near you!
Some of Fox Valley Web Design's E-Commerce Clients:
We are a MIVA Hosting Partner and specialize in implementing and hosting highly customizable, scalable and secure e-commerce solutions for small to medium size businesses using MIVA Merchant Commerce Server platform.
Your online business is of paramount importance to you, and therefore of paramount importance to us. That's why we use only top of the line hardware and server-grade components, and that's why we only hire staff that is proficient in both server management as well as troubleshooting MIVA Merchant storefronts.
If you are tired of problems with your current host, if you are tired of their slow web servers, bad customer or technical support - let us move your site to us! We promise to not only meet but also exceed your expectations - with full 30 day unconditional money back guarantee if you are not happy for any reason whatsoever. We know that once you switch to us, you will very likely never want to look anywhere else - we are that confident of our service and support!
*We can Install any version of Miva you wish even older versions if needed at no extra cost.
A $995.00 value offered for FREE on our all of our E-Commerce Hosting Plans.
Optional integration with exsisting and installation of products billed per hour.
We offer an optional full site integration and setting up of products (Get a Quote)
Got a few products to sell online?
We can help get your products online quickly. We will:
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Database your products - Product codes, product names, product descriptions, product price, volume discounts
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Professional Photograph your products
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Set-up a shopping cart/basket for your online customers
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Set-up Shipping (provide real-time calculations) through UPS, Fed-Ex, USPS
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Set-up Inventory Tracking - Now you can track inventory levels for all the products in your store. Your customers will know exactly when a product is in stock or out of stock.
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Credit Card Handling - we give you the ability to accept all Major Credit Cards in a secure environment (New encryption uses a combination of Blowfish (128-bit keys) and RSA (1024-bit keys)
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Site Traffic & Sales Stats - Now you'll know exactly how many customers have visited your store and how much they have spent.
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Set-up Account Management - Whether you are running a single store, or a "shopping mall", we allow you to have complete management control. You can create a store manager with full authority and multiple user accounts to handle the normal day-to-day operations of running your E-Commerce store. Also, customer accounts can be set up to provide frequent shopper programs, discounted pricing and special product availability.
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Merchandising is key to success of all stores and we give you the capability to implement a variety of programs to increase your sales. You can associate complimentary products to give shoppers the opportunity to purchase others that are similar . You can also create an upsale process when shoppers meet pre-defined criteria such as purchasing specific products, or exceeding specified dollar amounts. Pricing groups can be used in combination with select shopper availability groups to qualify them for discounts on any or all products in the store.
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Order Fulfillment - We offer multiple sales tax methods and provide your customers with multiple shipping options. Checking order status is also simple with our instant order email confirmations that are sent to both the merchant and customer.
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Turn the store over to you and train you on how to add products, delete products, change prices, change descriptions, add images, retrieve orders, fulfill orders or have us maintain the store for you
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No ongoing percentage is taken from your store sales - Unlike most online E-Commerce providers we DO NOT continue to take a percentage of your online sales, unless you want us too. You've worked hard to get your business going and your products are your products not ours. We'll help you get them online - quickly.
Can I maintain my own online store? Yes, we will also give you the ability to create and maintain your own store via your web browser from anywhere in the world. No expensive software to buy, its included with the E-Commerce hosting account. Easily take a picture of your products with your digital camera and upload it to your online store, type in a description, price, shipping weight, and move onto the next item. Easily set up product attributes such as different sizes and colors to be used with multiple products. Live inventory reporting. Great printable monthly reports including "Hottest" Selling Items and many more.
About MIVA Merchant
Powerful Store Design Tools
MIVA Merchant 5, with Store Morph Technology™, provides you with complete control over your entire online store design. Use the built-in store template, or modify pages to suit your specific business needs. You can even create a completely custom set of pages.
Specify the content and position of each component on any page to fully control the appearance of each page. With Store Morph Technology, it's easy to insert components from third parties to display additional content on your store pages.
Simple 'Point + Click' controls allow you to specify fonts, colors, button labels, navigation bar settings, product layouts, and more. The 'Advanced' mode lets you manipulate the underlying code for those settings. MIVA Merchant 5 also provides access to the HEAD and BODY tags, which can be edited for each page individually or globally.
Catalog Management
MIVA Merchant 5 enables you to build up your online store as large as you like. The software has been designed with no limitations on the number of products, categories, or sub-categories you can create. You also have the ability to assign a product to as many categories and sub-categories as your business needs.
Product descriptions can be entered with plain text, or enhanced with HTML. Assign thumbnail and full-size images to display your products in detail. With Custom Fields, you can enhance existing product information by defining your own product fields to be shown on the Product Display screen. Create fields for any form of product data, such as ISBN, UPC, Manufacturer, etc.
Product attributes can be assigned to define product characteristics, with the ability to add additional prices or weight with each attribute option. Multiple attribute display types include drop-down boxes, radio buttons, text fields, and more. If several products have the same attributes, create an attribute template to quickly assign them. Changes can be made to the single attribute template, and applied to all products referencing it.
Inventory Tracking and Product Merchandising
The extensive inventory tracking system in MIVA Merchant 5 allows you to keep track of what products you have on hand, and can even notify you when an item is out of stock. Display customized messages, telling your customers how many are available, or if stock is running low. You can even hide out of stock products from your customers.
Draw customers' attention to complementary products to help boost sales with related products. You can assign an unlimited number of related products.
Utilize the upsale feature to suggest a product at checkout, based on the order total, or on specific products in the order. Discounts may also be applied with an upsold product.
Order minimums enable you to require customers to meet a certain order total or product quantity amount. If not met, a custom message can be displayed to your customers.
Order Processing and Customer Management
Batch your orders at the end of the day, run a batch report to analyze order data, and even process your orders through your payment gateway right from within MIVA Merchant 5.
Provide security for your shoppers. Encrypt sensitive payment details with order encryption. Your customer's payment information is locked with a pass-phrase that you create, to help prevent stolen data.
Send confirming e-mail messages when customers place orders. You can also receive your own e-mail notifications when new orders are received. Notification emails can also be copied to a third party for drop-shipping, among other uses.
With the customer management system in MIVA Merchant 5 your customers can create accounts, providing them easy access to their account details and addresses. Offer special pricing and products when registered customers sign-in to your store.
Shipping Calculation and Payment Processing
FedEx and USPS shipping calculators in MIVA Merchant 5 retrieve real-time shipping rates based on weight and distance. The UPS shipping module connects to MIVA servers to retrieve current shipping rate tables.
MIVA Merchant 5 also provides a number of table-based shipping modules to help you offer a range of shipping options to your customers. These enable you to build your own shipping rate tables to meet your business needs.
MIVA Merchant 5 has a wide variety of built-in payment modules, designed to work smoothly with industry leaders. These payment modules were designed in partnership with the Payment Gateway providers, to ensure security and ease-of-use. Just turn it on, enter your account information, and the payment module does the rest.
The ability to accept other forms of payment, such as PayPal, electronic checks, and COD, is also included. If you have your own credit card processing terminal, you can choose to accept credit cards for manual processing.
Data Access and Storage
Import your existing product, customer, and category data directly into MIVA Merchant 5 for faster setup of your online store. With the included import utilities, quickly set product inventory levels, assign products to categories, create new customer accounts, and more.
To work with your store data offline, you can conveniently export your customers, products, categories, affiliates, and orders with multiple export utilities built into MIVA Merchant 5. All of your data is exported to a secure location on your website.
The new MIVA-SQL database technology enables you to harness the power of SQL for enhanced database performance without the need for an SQL-compatible server. MIVA Merchant 5 is also configurable for use with a MySQL database system, for increased performance and security.
Affiliate Programs and Marketing Services
Promote your online store with an affiliate program. The affiliate tracking system built into MIVA Merchant 5 enables you to create affiliate partners for your store, with individual commission levels based on order traffic, customers referred, or a combination of both.
An online affiliate account system lets affiliates see their earnings, retrieve store links and banners, and view your program agreement. Track affiliates' earnings and payouts through a simple affiliate management system.
MIVA also offers additional marketing services, all of which are available through the MIVA Merchant 5 administration interface:
Work seamlessly with MIVA Mailer, the mailing list management and email distribution system.
Fully integrated, MIVA Marketplace offers online pay-per-click search advertising, powered by FindWhat.com.
Take advantage of MIVA Submit, a suite of search engine optimization and web presence enhancement tools.
Easy-to-Use Administration Tools
The MIVA Merchant 5 administration interface for your online store is web accessible, so there is nothing to install on your computer. You can access it from anywhere in the world, with any web browser. Once logged in, the straightforward navigation tree directs you to all aspects of your store settings.
Version history tracking records each change made for many of the store design components. The version recall feature enables you to experiment with your look, and create alternate versions, without risk. Links to your online store provide an easy way to view changes while you work.
Create unlimited administrator accounts, with access groups to limit access to specific store management duties. For example, limit a group of administrators to viewing and editing the product list only.
Maintenance mode enables you to close the store for maintenance, so changes are not being made while customers shop. A customizable message can be displayed to all visitors while your store is temporarily down.
MIVA Merchant 5 is connected to the MIVA automated update server, providing direct access to the latest software updates. The MIVA update server notifies you of available patches, offering an optional automated installation.
Modular Architecture
MIVA Merchant 5 is specifically designed so developers and aftermarket vendors can create customized modules to easily expand the functionality of your store.
The built-in module interface provides access to all modules in your store. Here you can remove modules you do not wish to use, and install modules purchased from third party developers.
Modules automatically appear in the appropriate section within your administration interface. Simply activate the new module, configure the module settings, and go. No complicated programming or tricky installation routines.
Our large module aftermarket provides an unlimited number of new features and services. Context-sensitive 'Extras' buttons link you directly to MIVACentral.com, the world's largest collection of third party modules for MIVA Merchant 5. You will be linked to relevant modules for the section of the administration interface you are working with, providing you with suggestions for which modules work best in that area.
If you want to make money on the internet with your products, you will.
Get one of our E-Commerce sites and have your products available 24/7 to millions of online consumers.
Contact us today to get started in the world of E-Commerce.
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