Offering
your products and services for sale online has gotten easier, cheaper,
and much more user friendly over the last year - especially with CartXpress (based on OsCommerce). Time-tested by beginners and
experts, and constantly improved by the online opensource community -
it's one of the most popular shopping carts available. CartXpress is
free with any Professional or larger plan, and you can also add
CartXpress shopping cart to a Vamouse Hosting Standard account for
$10 a month plus a one-time setup fee.
Please Note: We have discontinued offering Miva Merchant. For Miva help pages for current users: Miva Help Page
There
are a handful of basic steps you need to follow in order to get your
ecommerce hosting and shopping cart up and running and begin to receive
online sales:
- Sign up for CartXpress.
CartXpress Details and Help Page
- Get a Merchant Account and a Payment Gateway: Merchant
accounts allow/authorize you to take credit cards, and gateways
facilitate the process online. We have 2 suggestions for both - check
with your current banking partner, if you have an established
relationship with them it can be a great place to start.
More Info on Payment gateways and Merchant Accounts
Add Secure SSL (HTTPS) Capability:
In order to take credit card information from your customers you will
need to have secure order and cart pages - pages beginning with "https"
and having that familiar "lock" in the lower right corner of the
browser window. All Vamouse Hosting hosting customers have FREE
access to the use of our server secure certificates - see SSL Security
for more details. If you would like to purchase your own SSL
certificate, for "https://yourdomain.com" type URLs, you can use the
"GeoTrust" tool in your account control panel. GeoTrust certs use
industry standard 128-bit encryption, and are available for $99/year -
more than $200 less than the Verisign cert!
GETTING STARTED
Ecommerce Hosting: 