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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.

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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 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.

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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;

• Fast – Immediate dispatch of warehouse stock.
• Comfortable – Immediately after finalizing your order, you can carry out the remittance transfer. Repetitive visits to your bank’s website are no longer needed. That saves time!
• Convenient – The data needed for your transaction is already entered on the form (invoice amount, payment recipient, order number, etc.).

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.

In a continuous effort to provide services that our vendors need to compete in today’s market, Gate2Shop has extended our portfolio of payment solutions. The team at Gate2Shop is proud to announce that payment methods specifically for conducting business in Israel have been added. The Israeli credit and debit cards have been added together with the Israeli Shekel as an additional currency.

And for the vendors conducting business in France, Italy, and Denmark, Gate2Shop is now offering the Carta Bleue, Carta CI, Dankort cards.

• The Carta Bleue – (Blue card) is currently one of the larger debit cards in use throughout France and by the addition of this card a large target audience will be available for e-commerce sales.
• Carta SI – Presently the Carta SI is a very popular debit card in use in Italy. The use of these cards and other debit cards (or bank or check cards as referred to) are the preferred method of payment.
• Dankort Cards – is a Danish debit card and the national credit card of Denmark. In today’s use it is usually combined with the Visa card so it can be used easily when the cardholder travels abroad.

The addition of these payment methods are intended to make it easier for the Gate2Shop vendors to expand the accepted currencies that they are presently using for the online transactions. By the additional payment methods that Gate2Shop continues to add, the hope is to better serve our valued clients.

As Gate2Shop continues to expand the available payment methods and options, China UnionPay is added to the payment options available. China UnionPay also known as UnionPay or by its abbreviation, CUP, is the only domestic credit card organization in the People’s Republic of China. China UnionPay is an association for China’s banking card industry, operating under the approval of the People’s Bank of China. It has provided professional maintenance services to over 350 thousand accepted merchants and 600 thousand POS terminals, and data processing services to 16 card-issuing organizations on issuing credit cards as well.
China’s 16.9 million Internet users, while an impressive figure, this is actually only 1.3 percent of the total population, this does not include Hong Kong and Taiwan. With the expansion of the ecommerce industry there will be more and more people utilizing the internet as a means of conducting both business and day to day tasks. This is the perfect opportunity for vendors to expand their target market along with this growth.

The B2C ecommerce market in China is still in its infancy. Merchants in China are adopting ecommerce, but have not yet applied ecommerce as their principal channel to grow their business and therefore pave the way for ecommerce as a whole. The Chinese economy will be the engine of economic growth in the twenty-first century and is now regarded as the key to future productivity improvements and competitiveness. Given the rapid transformations of production and information systems in industrialized countries, no developing country can afford to remain on the sidelines.

By adding such a payment option, Gate2Shop extends the global sales and marketing reach of our vendors into the rapidly growing Chinese economy. With the continuous need for ecommerce providers in the country of China, Gate2Shop is there to these services available. Adding the UnionPay option gives Gate2Shop and our vendors the services that are needed all over the mainland.