Online businesses of all sizes demand resolutions to their needs to work through the changing financial landscape that is occurring throughout the world. This calls for the competitive service provider to take extra steps to stay ahead of these changes. Payment solutions are the key when it comes to conducting business of any size in today’s market, and hence Advanced Payment Solutions are needed.
With the complexity of competing in the online industry during these extremely tough financial times, finding the perfect combination of solutions to provide for selling software online can be hard. The best alternative today is to select an e-commerce service provider with resources to best compliment your particular business model. Selling software online presents different challenges than some so the service provider should be able to offer more than just payment options. To provide a comprehensive service for this business model, research e-commerce platform providers; they offer more than a list of global payment methods but also provide an edge in an extremely competitive market. While conducting business throughout the world, vendors need a service provider that can provide a more complete e-commerce solution to work with the growing market.
Promotional features offered by e-commerce service providers offer powerful features that allow the online vendor the ability to design and promote their individual sale promotions and to manage the marketing of their products or services. With the software industry specifically, the use of this feature will perfectly compliment various promotions. By correlating the vendor’s products in the payment page administration area and with marketing tools complete control is obtained for each marketing endeavor.
Some of the control panels that are offered to vendors contain features or tools that differ greatly from provider to provider, so the research into these must be conducted in detail. The more complete e-commerce platform will provide:
•Promotional coupons – This can increase the sales of merchandise simply by offering additional products or services at a reduced rate within a certain time frame or with no time restrictions.
•Up-selling and Cross-selling tools - This gives the vendor the opportunity to increase sales online and the end user to purchase the products that they want by either combining them in bundles or substituting them with higher-priced ones.
•One Click Payment - One Click Payment allows repetitive customers to make online purchases with a single click. For returning customers this feature allows them to make further purchases without having to re-enter credit card information. This information is securely stored on the PCI certified system of G2S.
•Integration Assistant – This feature simplifies generating the script needed to create the Buy Now and Subscribe Now buttons so that with a simple copy and paste the generated script into the web page and the buttons will be ready to use. Once selected, the product and even the discount is applied directly to the payment page.
As you can see, these dynamic features when included into the control panel can have a great impact on sale promotions, and at the same time they can reduce the overall investment into extensive integration time and costs. These features are designed not only for the software industry but are highly useful for membership, digital content and many other applications.
In taking another step to stay ahead of the competition Gate2Shop not only continues to add new payment options but now additional currencies as well. Gate2Shop is happy to announce the expansion of the processing currencies being offered to our clientele. By the addition of these processing currencies our clients will be able to expand their target market and avoid excessive exchange rates.
The additional currencies that have been added to the Gate2Shop solution includes: Danish Krones (DKK), Norwegian (NOK), and Swedish Kronas (SEK), with more to come. The team at Gate2Shop has proven that the best solution to answer the needs of the growing ecommerce industry is to expand into new markets and their respective currencies.
Customer support is one of the foundations that Gate2Shop is structured around; together with our global offices we compliment the service with multi-lingual and multi-currencies to provide superior service worldwide. Gate2Shop provides one of the most secure and flexible solutions in the business. And now you can get the service in the language and the currency that you need.
As rapid and enormous as the e-commerce industry has grown since the pioneering days of the internet, so has the need for the service providers to deliver solutions. The world has become engrossed in the vast variety of e-businesses entering the online industry and the competition grows. With these growths, the price wars have shifted from the local streets to the “Super Highway” of the internet. The vendors doing business in these conditions have experienced the need to process transactions of all sizes, from major purchases to the smallest items or micro-transactions. This has launched yet another variation of the online service provider.
A look at e-commerce platforms Part X
After all said and done, you’ve established your online business and introduced your products or services to the masses shopping on the internet. The next thing you may want to decide is how to keep in touch and up to date on how your hard work is fairing in the e-commerce quagmire. This is the duty of another feature that is offered by the service provider that maintains your e-commerce platform. Together with the other features that we have touched on in this series of articles, real time reporting is offered as part of your service.
A look at e-commerce platforms Part IX
Today the amount of people buying products or services online is growing rapidly throughout the world and this creates challenges for e-commerce vendors industry wide. With this expansion there are consumers in many areas that utilize payment options and methods that are typically localized and not widely used by e-commerce providers. In order to be successful with this growth and to remain competitive, providers must increase the portfolio of payment options that they offer to the various vendors that are using their service for their online businesses.
A look at e-commerce platforms Part I
In today’s busy e-commerce market vendors continue to look for new ways to increase their sales and to get their products out to the public. There has been various tactics used to market products and services to gain more of the global e-commerce customers. Sales over the internet have grown by leaps and bounds over the last few years and vendors worldwide are looking for their share. Bringing products to potential customer’s attention is tricky enough but completing the sale is another story. So here is an inside look of one e-commerce platform and methods used in obtaining the conversions that will increase the bottom line.
Gate2Shop’s VP of Business Development gives a candid interview for the Flash/Flex magazine answering questions about the industry and Gate2Shop’s role in today’s e-commerce market. For the full interview download it at: http://ffdmag.com/magazine/article and download the latest edition 01/2010
Terry Nikolov , Gate2Shop’s own Project manager speaks to the press during the IT Congress held by the Turkish IT Foundation early November held in Ankra. Read and watch the interview:
http://www.turk.internet.com/haber/yazigoster.php3?yaziid=26195
Gate2Shop (G2S) partners with Payment Network AG
As the financial tribulations span the globe, Gate2Shop continues to expand the solutions to provide the needed alternatives to e-commerce vendors worldwide. Gate2Shop takes time to listen to what the industry needs and develops relationships and partnerships with the institutions to acquire then necessary services for our vendors.
The latest payment option added to the Gate2Shop portfolio is DIRECTebanking.com through Payment Network AG also known as known as sofortüberweisung.de. DIRECTebanking.com is a new and TÜV certified online payment system based on the proven online banking system with PIN/TAN entry for a secure and fast processing of your online shopping. DIRECTebanking.com is the most popular Online Banking payment method used in Germany already and has more than 10,000 merchants currently using this payment method.
Advantages of DIRECTebanking.com;
With directebanking.com, Payment Network AG offers a secure payment service in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and it can be used by approximately 77 million customers with an online compatible bank account, without the need for any additional registration. The direct money transfer system directebanking.com can be integrated into a respective shop with a minimum of difficulty thanks to the numerous prepared shop interface modules.
Providing additional solutions to each and every vendor is what keeps Gate2Shop a step ahead of the competition and providing excellent customer service is what it does best. With this partnership Gate2Shop opens a continuously growing e-commerce market to vendors throughout the world with localized payment methods and options.
By providing e-commerce solutions that extend globally Gate2Shop is able to offer vendors the needed service multiple currencies with weekly payouts. All of these options are offered to each and every vendor without additional fees.
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