Are you willing to sit around on the sidelines and see whether you have been dislodged by a competitor you never knew about?

"In 2004, the worldwide business-to-business e-commerce market was worth $7.3 trillion, representing 6.9% of the global economy," said Peter Sondergaard, group vice president at GartnerGroup Inc.

In the past electronic commerce to transact was out of the reach of most small and medium size businesses, The Internet has changed this drastically. Now you can sell products, provide real time tracking of orders by your customers, enable customer to order on-line, present a host of information that can be updated automatically from your own database.

There are three steps to building an e-commerce site:

1. Displaying your product and services to their best advantage.
2. Development a system for on-line ordering.
3. Configuring a secure payment system.

We can deliver whatever your e-commerce needs are!

• A shopping system that fits your needs.
• Create a on-line catalog.
• Secure server for on-line transactions.
• Full participation in the global marketplace.
• Recommend an Internet compliant merchant account service.

Mydestiny e-Commerce Installation Service:
The big-business solution for the small-business budget.

PRICE: $1200.00 BASIC INSTALLATION FEE plus hosting of $24.95 per month (200 Mb space, 10,000 Mb monthly bandwidth transfer)

INCLUDES:

Web Site Features:

• A full-blown e-Commerce web site.
• Your own header logo & color scheme for Store Front
• Another, smaller logo for your Invoices & Packing Slips
• 2 Services pages (renamed whatever you like: History, About Us, Sponsorships, etc.) with up to 4 paragraphes of text + 1 image on each of these 2 pages
• A "How To" page customized with your own "How To" information
• Related Links page
• Contact Form page: When filled out by a visitor, automatically generates an email which is sent to the store administrator.
• Shipping and Returns information page customized with your own shipping and return policies
• Privacy Policy page
• Conditions of Use page
• Customer Testimonials
• Creation of up to 20 (total) Store product categories and subcategories you specify. You can then use these as examples in Admin to create more, or can change these as desired anytime.
• Entry into the Store of 5 of your own products including thumbnail image, medium image, and large image for each product. (You must provide one suitable image and description/information for each product). You can also use these product entries as examples to add more of your own anytime.
• Customized Meta Tags for each of the 5 products entered to yield better search-engine results.

E-Commerce (Store Front) Features:

• Unlimited number of products.
• Unlimited number of categories, subcategories, sub-subcategories, etc.
• Three images per product: Thumbnail, Medium, and Large
• Discount coupons capability
• Electronic Gift Vouchers capability (Sold as an actual product like a gift certificate)
• Electronic Delivery/Downloads capability: Perfect if you have downloadable products such as e-books, photos, artwork, patterns, etc. to sell. Shipping is automatically calculated at "$0.00" for downloadable products.
• Multiple payment options: Credit card with secure checkout; Merchant account such as AuthorizeNet; PayPal; Check/Money Order; COD; Pick Up Prepaid Order at Store; and more.
• Many shipping options to choose from, including real-time shipping quotes from USPS and UPS.
• Featured Products
• New Products
• Customer Reviews by product
• Best-selling products are automatically tracked and displayed to show visitors what your best-sellers are.
• Automatic tracking and display of "Customers who bought this product also purchased..." for any product which has been purchased by users in the past.
• Permanent shopping cart for logged-in users: User's items remain in his/her cart until deleted or purchased, even after the user logs out for that session
• "Tell a Friend About This Product" feature
• Quick Search and Advanced Search to search for products in the Store. Search by product name, description, model number, manufacturer, price range, or any combination of these.
• Customer Address Book: Customer can keep an address book of multiple addresses to choose from for ordering/shipping (great for sending gifts etc.)
• Because it's MySQL-database driven, the Store runs faster, is smoother, and does much more than most CGI/PERL based carts.

Admin Features:

• Ability to add Admin Users and restrict their access to only certain parts of Admin. This means you can delegate different employees to enter products, keep track of orders, etc.
• Change Store address, phone numbers, store email addresses, etc. from within Admin by simply typing and saving.
• Products can be added, deleted, individually activated or deactivated, edited, marked Out of Stock, set as Featured Products, Products Expected Soon, and more.
• Easy to add, delete, or edit product Categories, change product Category names, move or rearrange order of product Categories, convert them to Subcategories, etc. Product Subcategories you create in Admin automatically drop-down in a list when that Category is clicked in the Store.
• Choose your preferred image sizes for product thumbnails, medium size images, and large images.
• Set in Admin whether you want to allow checkout for out-of-stock item/s.
• Admin control of Product Options & Attributes (size, color, etc.)
• Enter your reciprocal or related links from Admin, and they automatically show up alphabetically on the Related Links page in your web site.
• Customer Testimonials for the Store Front are entered from Admin by simply copying/pasting or typing text.
• Admin can set Reviews to require approval or not. If approval is required, customer product reviews won't show up in the Store Front until Admin approves the review. Admin can also edit the reviews if necessary.
• Polls are fully configurable from within Admin, can be either public or private. Create poll questions and potential answers. You can also set polls to individually activate/deactivate, or rotate randomly among chosen polls.
• Admin can choose whether to enable "Bestsellers"and how many at a time to display.
• Admin can enable or disable the feature "Customers who bought this product also purchased..."
• Discount coupons, if you choose to offer them, can be for either %-off or dollar amount. Create coupons in Admin; choose auto-generated coupon code or an easier-to-remember word-based coupon code (great for publishing in print ads). Coupons can even be emailed in batches or individually from within Admin to registered customers/users. Each coupon category/code can be set to limit the number of uses per customer, number of uses total, expiration date, and minimum purchase amount to use that coupon.
• Gift Vouchers: You can create gift vouchers as products with model number GIFT-something, example GIFT25 for a $25 gift voucher. Customer purchases voucher, then can email all or part of it to a friend as a gift (can send $15 to friend & keep $10 for themselves). If there's money in a user's voucher account, they are given the option at checkout to use it to pay for the order. Vouchers can also be sent to customers by Admin (refunds, promotions, etc.) NOTE: Vouchers cannot be used when PayPal is selected as payment method.
• Print an Invoice and/or Packing Slip right from Admin for any order.
• Choose order status within Admin for any order as "Processing" or "Shipped", and it can automatically notify the Customer via email of the changed order status. Admin can add comments to this notification if desired.
• Automatically send extra order-notification emails of all orders to extra store email address/es if desired (great if you have an employee who is in charge of filling the orders).
• Tracking: Track Customer Order Totals; All Orders by Month; Stock Levels; Vouchers Redeemed; Who's Online at your Store; Products Most Viewed; Products Most Purchased, and more.
• Make a complete backup of your store database, or restore from a previous database backup, at any time with a simple click.
• Change the look of your site by hiding/unhiding feature boxes, changing column widths, or hiding one or both columns completely.

Hosting Features (for the $24.95/month ecommerce package; See Mydestiny Hosting for other packages available. Mydestiny e-Commerce requires e-Commerce Package with Private IP/SSL Cert

• Private IP
• SSL Certificate (https://yourdomain.com for secure areas of site)
• 200 Mb Server space
• 10,000 Mb (10 Gb) Transfer monthly
• 20 Email POP3 accounts (anything@yourdomain.com)
• MySQL database (required for Mydestiny e-Commerce)
• Auto-responders
• Email forwarding
• Remote (browser) access to WebMail
• 2 Detailed Web Stats Programs (AW Stats, Webalizer)