Ecommerce Web Design Blog

Payment gateways help make it easy to pay for goods and services using their credit card online. How do they work and how do you choose one?

If you want your customers to be able to pay for goods and services with their credit card in your online store, you can:

1. Use a payment service like Paypal IPN, Paymex or Paymate
2. Set up a merchant account and process credit card transactions manually

Ordering an ozCart website is as easy as it will be for your customers to buy from you. You can buy online. Once you buy, we'll step you through the process.

Five steps online

When it's time to buy, what do you have to do to get your site up and running? Fortunately, the process is a simple and efficient one.

Step 1: Choose your base design

If you choose a web design or ecommerce package from

How much disk space will you need for your shopping cart website?

The amount of capacity you will need for your ecommerce website mainly depends on:

• How many products you will display
• How many images will be associated with those products
• The quality of those images - in most cases, product images will be under 200kb to make them easy to download in customer's browsers if

How do you increase your potential for high ecommerce conversion rates?

If you're going to be selling products and services online, you'll want to make sure that as many people as possible come to your store and then buy something from it. The process of advertising, promotion and search engine optimisation can help you get customers to your website. But how do you keep them going through

Start your own online store to help avoid auction website fees.

The growth of auction sites have helped a lot of small and home businesses get online - opening up the power of the Internet to everyday people. Auction sites are easy to use, rank well in search engines and are well understood. But they have a huge downside as well: transaction cost.

Power sellers on some auction sites can be