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Small Business E-commerce Solutions

At a high level, e-commerce can be handled one of two ways. The first option is known as a seamless integration. In this method, the entire shopping experience - including checkout, is handled on your own website. The second option (more popular for small businesses) is to use a hosted checkout solution like PayPal. The difference here is the final checkout transaction occurs on PayPal’s website instead of your own and in exchange, you'll save a bundle avoiding Merchant Account activation fees and monthly charges for payment processing.

Hosted Checkout

You can avoid paying merchant fees associated with a seamless e-commerce integration by using a payment processor such as PayPal. Did you know, when you use PayPal to accept payments, your shoppers are not required to create a PayPal account? They can use their standard credit card to checkout quickly and safely.

Accepting payments through PayPal is easy for you to setup and takes less than 10 minutes. Setup is also completely free! You'll be able to start accepting credit cards from all shoppers and pay no monthly transaction fees or initial account activation fees. The only fee you pay is roughly 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.

Once you are setup to accept payments with PayPal, you'll need to a product product catalog for your website so visitors can browse your products. Our Website Package with E-commerce includes a product catalog and shopping cart so your site can be up and running quickly. If you have general questions about e-commerce or using PayPal, contact us.

Seamless E-commerce

At first, a seamless e-commerce experience may seem more desirable. In this scenario, the shopper remains on your website and you have control over the entire process. However, the third party costs associated with a seamless integration make it cost-prohibitive for many small businesses. These costs include a gateway activation fee, monthly gateway fees, transaction charges and the list goes on.

For pricing on a custom e-commerce solution including a seamless integration model, contact us. If you’re just beginning to sell online, read more about our hosted checkout solutions below or see our affordable Website Package with E-Commerce.

Custom E-commerce Solutions

Central Jersey Web Solutions can match your business to the appropriate e-commerce solution. Our integrated shopping cart is perfect for many small business to get started but when you have a large collection of products, need to track inventory or need multiple shipping options, we can connect your site to various 3rd party systems which meet these requirements. Contact Us for a free e-commerce consultation.

Buy Now Buttons

Does your business already have a PayPal account and you want to add Buy Now buttons to your website? We can assist you in using PayPal's Buy Now button on any of our websites. Contact us for more information.

How to choose

Unless you know what your monthly order volume and gross sales will be, your preliminary choice should be a hosted checkout process - like the one included in our Website Package with E-commerce.

Once you’re up and running, you can use your true sales figures to determine if converting to a seamless makes financial sense.

If you aren’t sure what your monthly online sales volume will be, a hosted checkout solution is perfect for you. There’s no activation fees from credit card processors and you pay a simple 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction to PayPal. To get started with a hosted checkout process and start selling quickly, see our Website Package with E-commerce. For more information about a seamless e-commerce solution, contact us.

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