Gate2Shop (www.g2s.com) is proud to announce that z8games owned by G4BOX Inc. (www.z8games.com) has chosen Gate2Shop to provide the customized e-commerce platform and the payment portfolio provided by the team at Gate2Shop. z8games is a leading casual games portal providing a gaming platform that offers a wide range of online games such as Cross Fire and Metin 2. This platform provides publishers and distributors a venue to introduce their products to the online gamers.
The expert team at Gate2Shop was happy to provide the e-commerce payment solution for the z8games gaming portal which provided the global payment alternatives and the fully customize payment page that was needed to provide the flexibility seamless operation of the website. Providing specialized solutions to the software and digital content vendors is what sets Gate2Shop apart from the rest.

You may have a great software product, but to sell it profitably in a global marketplace, you first need to address the basic transactional needs of your online buyers.
A reliable, global e-commerce payment provider will guarantee your customer’s security and comfort during the process. When selecting a payment partner, be sure to request these key features:
1. Multi-currency Payment Options: Your customers will feel most comfortable buying online in their local currency, just as they do in the real world. Limited payment currencies equate to limited sales. The leading e-commerce payment providers have relationships with local banks worldwide; enabling them to offer you all the currency payment options you need to sell in all major markets.

2. Multilingual Customer Service: A reassuring voice or personal written communication in the customer’s native tongue often pushes the customer through the purchase threshold. Effective post-purchase support will also encourage them to buy more in the future. Multilingual customer support is a must for selling globally. A qualified e-commerce payment company should offer this support at no extra charge.

3. Promotional Tools: There is nothing a customer loves more than the feeling of getting a great deal. Special promotions such as coupons and discounted product bundles are terrific instruments for instilling such confidence in buyers and pushing checkout values higher. You will need an e-commerce partner who has the capability and flexibility to integrate customized promotional features with your unique digital products.

4. Security: Online fraud presents a major risk to e-commerce merchants and perhaps the biggest barrier to buyer confidence. As fraudsters get more sophisticated, payment gateways must stay one step ahead. Your e-commerce payment provider should assure you these that certain key security measures are in place to identify and eliminate online fraud efficiently. Such features should include:
• Pre-purchase transaction review
• Tools for detecting odd patterns in purchase behavior
• IP address verification
• Credit card billing address verification
• Immediate vendor email notification in cases of suspected fraud

5. Flexibility in Service: Your digital product and pricing offers will likely evolve with the needs of your customers—probably very rapidly. Your payment solution must evolve with it, or it will slow you down. The best e-commerce payment platforms are those with the flexibility to keep up with rapid development in vendor products and pricing. Be sure to ask your prospective payment provider to describe the flexibility of their platform, and consider with them several “what if” scenarios involving changes to your products.
A safe, secure and comfortable marketplace is the foundation for success in selling software online. The above features will provide the right environment for your buyers and let them focus their attention on your fantastic software product.

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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.

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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.

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A look at e-commerce platforms Part VIII

The growth of the e-commerce market has introduced many new channels to own and operate a successful online business. For software vendors this has produced the perfect median for successfully introducing their product to a worldwide audience. With the increase in sales more effective means needed to be offered to protect their products that they have developed or are trying to market on the internet.

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A look at e-commerce platforms Part VII

Now that you’re all set to start making money the question arises, how do you bring the most traffic to your site as possible and is all that work worth it?  Obviously, the more people that visit your site the greater opportunity, and this leads to more sales you’ll have the chance to make.  Here are some simple ways to bring traffic and to make the best of the opportunities available.

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A look at e-commerce platforms Part II

Having a product that is in demand in today’s economy is great, but being able to market and turn the lookers into buyers is a big task. Here we will cover some of the possibilities of taking a product from the shelves and turning it into a global commodity. There are many ways to sell your product online and there are just as many opinions on how to be successful, here are some details keep in mind from inside an e-commerce platform provider.

The first step of building any business not just an e-commerce business is to ensure you save as much of your time, energy and focus as possible for building the best products or services and then marketing them to the right audience. Then the next step is to find a provider to take care of building, developing and maintaining a sound e-commerce platform that is flexible and powerful enough to meet your needs. In this part of the building process the wise step to take is to take time to select the provider that is in the business for the long haul and not a flash in the pan operator.

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Only a small percentage of Germans have a credit card, and the ones that do prefer to use their bank accounts for purchases online. Payments with online bank transfers and electronic direct debits in Germany have been steadily rising in recent years and more and more internet users consider online banking to be a more convenient and safer way to pay online compared to credit cards. Currently more than 60% of online shopping is done through these two payment methods.
Gate2Shop has added giropay, a real-time bank transfer payment option with payment guarantee, and ELV (Elektronisches Lastschrift Verfahren), a direct debit payment option, in order to better serve its German consumers. Coupled with Sofortueberweisung, Gate2Shop now completely covers the German online market.

In today’s economy serious steps must be taken in both the commercial and private sectors to stay competitive and to stay ahead of the crisis. American Express has done just that. Founded in 1850, the American Express company had proved that it could withstand the test of time by remaining successful for over 150 years.  Now with global recognition the American Express (widely known as Amex) has not only withstood time but also the test of competition.
The credit card business is typically structured with three individual entities such as the acquiring bank (processes the credit card transaction), the issuing bank (the bank that issues the consumer’s credit card), and the network (the link between banks). This, as mentioned earlier is the typical structure. Amex though has proven not to be typical, acting as all three entities, and retaining the profit from the additional fees. In more recent years Amex has begun authorizing other bank to either acquire or issue the Amex cards on their behalf.
Doing business such as this over the years is a testament on how to take a company first formed as an express mail company and transforms it in to one of the leading credit card institutions in the world. When all is considered including many different economical hardships that have occurred over time, Amex proves to be the credit card to have.
Amex cards account for approximately 24 percent of the total dollar volume of credit card transactions in the US, the highest of any card issuer. Amex offers various types of charge cards for small business to manage their expenses, and Amex is also the largest provider of corporate cards. This has heightened the popularity of the Amex card on a global scale so now many vendors want to take advantage of accepting the card.
This is the resiliency that today’s e-commerce needs and what the vendors are asking for and what Gate2Shop believes they deserve. 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 payment option, Gate2Shop opens a continuously growing e-commerce market to vendors throughout the world with localized and globalized payment methods and options.  With over a decade of experience in the e-commerce industry, Gate2Shop delivers a complete time tested solution.

This year’s conference will be held in Moscow October 1st – 4th Izmailovo-Alpha hotel. This is the 8th annual international conference held by the ISDEF board and Gate2Shop will be there. While this conference will cover the economic impact on the software development business we will be show casing the state of the art solutions that Gate2Shop delivers.

G2S provides secure and reliable turnkey solutions for small to medium sized e-commerce businesses. Gate2Shop is backed by more than a decade of experience in the e-commerce industry, with expert international staff, Gate2Shop has the skills, tools, technology, and expertise to accept software vendors and digital service providers and help them succeed online with confidence in a secure and reliable environment.

If you’re attending this prestigious conference contact us to see how Gate2Shop can help your business grow and increase your bottom line. Contact us at sales@g2s.com  and to arrange a meeting at the ISDEF conference contact us at dennisg@g2s.com.