eCommerce Solutions

eCommerce means doing business over the Internet. eCommerce has been projected to generate over $1 trillion dollars annually by 2002. eCommerce is the evolution of traditional business practices combined with the power of the Internet.

Companies that are looking for sophisticated eCommerce Solutions, need to look no further. CCI Net offers powerful, affordable, and secure solutions to help you increase sales as well as grow your revenue beyond what was once possible using traditional methods. CCI Net’s eCommerce Solutions will take you from 0 to Storefront in 24 hours. This could be on-line shopping or business-to-business transactions, which allows you to tap into the global marketplace.  

What is the eCommerce Process?

1)   SHOPPING CARTS

eCommerce-enabling your web site involves building a storefront to display your products and services to potential customers. CCI Net eCommerce hosting packages include shopping cart software that simplifies this process by enabling you to build and manage your store-front, cataloging, order processing and fulfillment all through your Web browser or Clients Software. CCI Net supports the following shopping cart software: Miva Merchant, INEX, and Microsoft Site Server 

2)   PAYMENT PROCESSING

Credit cards are by far the most popular form of currency on the Internet because they provide a secure, fast and easy-to-use method of payment for both the merchant and the consumer. For this reason, the acceptance of credit cards is crucial for success in the booming Internet commerce market.

• Merchant Account: In order to accept and process credit cards over the Internet, you must first set up an Internet Merchant Account, a special type of Merchant Account designed specifically to handle Internet transactions. To qualify for an Internet Merchant Account, you must first have a checking account with a US bank. Ordinarily, the process of obtaining an Internet Merchant Account can take up to 4 weeks. Through CCI Net's special partnership with Cardservice International, we can have you up and running in just 2-3 days -- at the best pricing currently available!
  

• Payment Gateway:Once you obtain your Merchant Account, you need to transfer payment from your customer's credit card account to your bank account. This process is handled by Payment Gateways. CCI fully supports VeriSign (formerly called Signio) Payment Gateway solutions which are the two widely used payment processing solutions.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL), is an industry-standard way of passing sensitive information between computers. SSL is often used to securely transfer credit card and other information across the Internet. SSL binds a person's or computer's identity to a pair of electronic keys. These keys can be used to encrypt and digitally "sign" the information to prove its authenticity. CCI Net provides a shared SSL secure server to every eCommerce solutions so your customers can enter their credit card or other payment information online in confidence knowing that their information will be sent securely in an encrypted format, preventing others from seeing their information. However, We can also help you get your own SSL Certificate through a certificate authority such as VeriSign.