Posts Tagged ‘e-commerce’

Pro-Activity Pays

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

In today’s business world the final measurement of success comes down to the conversion of the proverbial window shoppers and the completion of the final transaction. In the mean time experts from all industries and fields are making their mark and profiting on a large scale. These experts are taking advantage of the lack of success by some by promising increased conversion rates and performance of their businesses. Realistically the major part of businesses today can increase their individual productivity by practicing more pro-active business practices.

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Promotional Features (Coupons, Cross-sale, etc.) when selling software online

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

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.

ISDEF 2010

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

September 30th – October 3rd 2010
Moscow, Russia

ISDEF 2010, the ninth annual fall conference organized by the Independent Software Developers Forum (ISDEF), will take place at the Holiday Inn Vinogradovo in Moscow. The event will focus on the analysis of the international software market and the issues that IT companies currently face. The owners, top managers and leading professionals from various IT and Internet companies will be attending along with the marketing experts, journalists, consultants and representatives of Western and Russian investment funds and PR agencies.

This year Yuval Ziv G2S’s Chief Operations Officer will be speaking at the conference and will have the opportunity to meet many of the industries participating members. Gate2Shop is also proud to be sponsoring this year’s conference. These conferences provide the opportunity to gather knowledge and to network with other members of the electronic commerce business.

For further information or to arrange meetings with Yuval contact us at: dennisg@g2s.com or call us at +44 20 3051 0330

Why Chargebacks Can Kill Your Online Sales and How to Stop Them

Monday, August 9th, 2010

The chargeback is a process that exists primarily for consumer protection against unwanted or undesirable transactions. A chargeback is the return of funds to a consumer, forcibly initiated by the consumer’s issuing bank or credit source. There are numerous reasons for individuals to initiate the chargeback process but the bottom line is these chargeback greatly affect the online vendor. This process is tracked by financial institutions and directly affects the ability of the vendor to accept credit cards and debit cards online.

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A Great E-Commerce Suite

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

With every e-commerce business that springs up, there is another great e-commerce suite that follows in its footsteps. That is the way it seems by most accounts, but the fact remains there are but a few differences in the core features offered by e-commerce service providers. Finding the “Ultimate e-commerce suite” may be about as easy as finding the Holy Grail. The next best option during your research for an e-commerce suite is to find the features that you are looking for. The e-commerce service industry is growing as fast as the e-commerce vendors are so the features that are offered do vary. One of the toughest tasks to complete is to separate the e-commerce service providers from the payment service providers. Once your research has divided the two service providers you will be ready to find “A Great E-commerce Suite”.

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IDM Chooses Gate2Shop For The Needed Solution

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Once again Gate2Shop has been chosen to provide the right solution in a clutch situation. Gate2Shop has been chosen by Internet Download Manager. Internet Download Manager (www.internetdownloadmanager), the company itself was established in 1999 and has developed a valuable tool (IDM) that increases download speeds by up to 5 times, resumes and schedules downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages.

IDM supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. This makes it the tool to have for those who download a lot of content from the web.

The innovative developers at Gate2Shop responded to the needs of Internet Download Manager by providing another fully customized solution tailored to best fit their needs. This solution not only included global payment options and the invaluable Direct Merchant notification but the integration also included the quick and easy to use API solution with a customized payment page. The customized payment page alone has already provided a 20% increase of sales and the security that Internet Download Manager needed from their e-commerce provider.

Gate2Shop (www.g2s.com) is a provider of first class e-commerce solutions specifically designed for the software and digital service industries. The G2S solution gives the vendors who want to market and sell software online or sell games online a complete e-commerce platform. Gate2Shop has more than a decade of experience in the e-commerce industry and the know-how to help vendors Sell More. Each G2S online solution offers one of the most secure and comprehensive ecommerce solution packages that will give the vendor not only choices in payment solutions but also the freedom of customizing the specific solution for their individual needs.

The Gate2Shop and Avactis Partnership

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Gate2Shop (www.g2s.com) has partnered with Avactis (www.avactis.com) in offering a promotional discount rate of 3.5% for an outstanding payment solution.

Gate2Shop is a premium provider of e-commerce billing solutions for vendors of all sizes. It is backed by more than a decade of experience in the e-commerce industry and provides more than 80 local, international and alternative payment options in over 160 countries. The integration process of its payment solution is instantaneous and provides access to all payment options and credit and debit cards available. In addition, one of the most sophisticated fraud prevention engines on the market today comes bundled at no additional cost.

Avactis Shopping Cart is an online store software. It can be customized for any design with no programming skills, and is easy to integrate with an existing Web site through a unique tag-based technology. It is SEO optimized, secure, and easy to upgrade. The software has no logical limitations on the number of products.

Special discounts are given for developers and Web designers!

Gate2Shop Again Expands Currencies to Expand Vendors Sales – NOK, DKK, SEK

Monday, July 26th, 2010

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.

Micropayments–the Future Has Arrived

Monday, July 26th, 2010

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.

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Turn Your Game Into Cash With PayInAFlash – In-game Payments

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

With only a few months after being released, PayInAFlash has proven to be a valuable tool for the online gaming industry. Being designed specifically for the software and gaming verticals, PayInAFlash provides the vendors with numerous payment options, higher conversion rates due to no redirection being used. Several of our gaming industry clients have found that with the simple integration that additional value was added because the integration does not require highly skilled IT professionals to complete.

The PayInAFlash billing model can be easily integrated in any game, social media, video streaming or software, allowing the end users to quickly and conveniently pay for their requested service. This payment solution was designed to minimize the distraction to the end-user, while maintaining the highest security standards and meeting all of the requirements set by the international PCI Data Security Standard.

With developers and distributors in mind PayInAFlash takes the flash experience to the next level by extending the versatility of the usage of this billing model. Not only does PayInAFlash offer the vast alternative payment methods but also the ability to operate on any platform. The PayInAFlash solution gives the developers direct access to all of the Gate2Shop payment options and offers the smooth non-commercial look that keeps the developers design their own.