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E-Commerce or E-Magnificent E-COMMERCE SERVICES

Conducting business online used to be a very complicated and expensive task to set up - until now. Netports Australia offers a myriad of e-commerce hosting solutions. Whether you need tight security and ultra reliable hosting for an online empire that handles millions of transactions each and every month or you simply want to start out selling your products or services online, we have what it takes to make it happen, and at a far less cost than you may think.

Security
All hosting accounts include the use of our shared THAWTE™ SSL. So this otherwise expensive necessity for safe and secure real time credit card transactions on your website or shopping cart is completely taken care of for you - at no further cost to you.

Shopping Carts
To the osCommerce website
All website hosting accounts from the NPH-50 plan upwards come with a choice of shopping cart programs you cac install easily from inside your cPanel™. And you are not limited to using just one, if your hosting plan allows it you can run multiple shopping carts. Netports Australia provides the e-commerce software that is not only powerful, but also easy to use and is supported by global open source communities, for example osCommerce and Zen Cart - two of the leading shopping cart programs in the world today are both included free of charge with all hosting accounts, (NPH-50 and NPQ-50 upwards).

Visit the demos:
osCommerce (with integrated e-Path payment gateway demonstration)
Zen Cart with integrated e-Path payment gateway demonstration)

Credit Card Payment Gateway
A credit card payment gateway works to accept credit card payments from your website or shopping cart. There are two types of credit card payment gateways:
  • Real Time - A real time credit card payment gateway communicates directly with your merchant account to process the payment in real time from your website. Its fast, convenient and doesn't require any involvement by you. However, You have little to no control - anyone anywhere can perform a transaction on your site. a real time payment gateway together with the specific type of merchant account needed at your bank to operate with it are both very costly. Further, real time credit card payment gateways will usually charge you a fee every time you receive a credit card payment, this is on top of your banks merchant account fees. They are ideal for businesses that transact many hundreds of sales per month but are not usually viable for small to medium businesses because of cost considerations.
  • Manual Credit Card Payment Gateway - The manual alternative is quickly becoming the system of choice for small to medium sized businesses on a limited budget. Accepting online credit card payments are performed in exactly the same way as a real time gateway except you will enter the transaction yourself into a much more affordable manual merchant account facility at a bank. Although its their low cost that is making these manual systems popular its their security that is providing the greatest benefit to merchants and credit card paying customers. They are an extremely safe and secure way to accept credit cards on the internet. Two of the worlds leading manual payment gateways are right here in Australia, E-PATH and PAYECOM.

E-Path Credit Card Payment Gateway

Payecom Manual Credit Card Payment Gateway

Merchant Account
A merchant account is a type of business account provided by a bank that settles the credit card charge. There are different types of merchant accounts available. Ones that work with "real time" payment gateways are by far the most expensive, whereas manual (MOTO) merchant account facilities are ideal for manual payment gateways such as e-Path and Payecom are the least expensive. In fact if you already have an EFTPOS terminal you can start accepting credit cards on your website or shopping cart straight away with either e-Path and Payecom.

For more information on the various credit card payment gateways available, all of which work seamlessly with any Netports Australia hosting account, visit Australian Credit Card Payment Gateway.

For more information on e-commerce, or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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