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Efficient e-commerce software is a must for the business who wants to sell products and services online.  Without the right tools in your possession, succeeding with your business endeavors will be difficult at best.  However, one must know what to look for in a software solution in order to obtain favorable results.

Types of Software

First and foremost, you should know that there are many different types of e-commerce software.  Recognizing this is important so you do not group them all into a single category.  What you want to do is choose a solution based on the specific needs of your business.  More than likely, your business has several requirements, so try not to limit yourself to a single application.  The good aspect is that most products on the market are quite diverse and allow you to accomplish a wide variety of goals.  For example, you have e-commerce software that comes equipped with a shopping cart, billing system, and other features needed to run an e-business with efficiency.

Cost of Product

You definitely want to consider the cost of any product before purchasing e-commerce software.  Some of these programs are free and inexpensive, while others are very costly.  Keep in mind that the most expensive product isn’t always the best solution.  Don’t make the mistake of believing something is better just because it costs more than what else is on the market.  Many vendors are counting on this and looking to bait you with their marketing ploys.  Establish a budget, find a few products that fall within that range, and stick to it.

Support Your Growth

The key to choosing e-commerce software is finding something that does exactly what you need it to do.  Also keep scalability in mind when making your decision.  You want your business to enjoy positive growth, so it would be ideal if you could find something that grows right along with it.  You could end up wasting a lot of money if you have to upgrade to new software every time your business experiences notable growth.  Purchase software that supports your in business in the presence, and can be scaled to support it in the future as well.

Finding the Right Solution

It would behoove you to devote quality research to finding e-commerce software for your business.  Learn about the warranty that comes with the product and most importantly, check the reputation of the software vendor.  If there is a free demo version available, give it a spin to see if the program lives up to your expectations.  This way, you can have an ideal whether the product is any good before spending your money on it.  You wouldn’t hire people to work for your company without first learning if they are qualified, right?  So why choose an e-commerce software without learning if it is suitable for your needs?

Conclusion

When taking the time to thoroughly evaluate the available products, you have a much better chance of coming out with e-commerce software that makes a perfect match for your business.  So determine your needs, establish a budget and get out there to find the ideal solution your business needs to thrive online.

Efficient e-commerce software is a must for the business who wants to sell products and services online.  Without the right tools in your possession, succeeding with your business endeavors will be difficult at best.  However, one must know what to look for in a software solution in order to obtain favorable results.

Types of Software

First and foremost, you should know that there are many different types of e-commerce software.  Recognizing this is important so you do not group them all into a single category.  What you want to do is choose a solution based on the specific needs of your business.  More than likely, your business has several requirements, so try not to limit yourself to a single application.  The good aspect is that most products on the market are quite diverse and allow you to accomplish a wide variety of goals.  For example, you have e-commerce software that comes equipped with a shopping cart, billing system, and other features needed to run an e-business with efficiency.

Cost of Product

You definitely want to consider the cost of any product before purchasing e-commerce software.  Some of these programs are free and inexpensive, while others are very costly.  Keep in mind that the most expensive product isn’t always the best solution.  Don’t make the mistake of believing something is better just because it costs more than what else is on the market.  Many vendors are counting on this and looking to bait you with their marketing ploys.  Establish a budget, find a few products that fall within that range, and stick to it.

Support Your Growth

The key to choosing e-commerce software is finding something that does exactly what you need it to do.  Also keep scalability in mind when making your decision.  You want your business to enjoy positive growth, so it would be ideal if you could find something that grows right along with it.  You could end up wasting a lot of money if you have to upgrade to new software every time your business experiences notable growth.  Purchase software that supports your in business in the presence, and can be scaled to support it in the future as well.

Finding the Right Solution

It would behoove you to devote quality research to finding e-commerce software for your business.  Learn about the warranty that comes with the product and most importantly, check the reputation of the software vendor.  If there is a free demo version available, give it a spin to see if the program lives up to your expectations.  This way, you can have an ideal whether the product is any good before spending your money on it.  You wouldn’t hire people to work for your company without first learning if they are qualified, right?  So why choose an e-commerce software without learning if it is suitable for your needs?

Conclusion

When taking the time to thoroughly evaluate the available products, you have a much better chance of coming out with e-commerce software that makes a perfect match for your business.  So determine your needs, establish a budget and get out there to find the ideal solution your business needs to thrive online.

The e-commerce software forms the foundation for any online store.  It is this application that shapes every aspect of the customer’s experience from browsing the items they want to actually purchasing them.  This is why it pays to find a solution that perfectly suits your business.  There are several programs on the market, and this can make choosing one considerably difficult.  The good thing is that you do not have to spend hours upon hours evaluating every product on the market.  All you need to know is what features are the most critical to the success of your online store.

Easy Item and Category Management

It is important to know that e-commerce systems range from simple shopping carts to fully integrated solutions that can help you build an entire website.  While the functionality you require all depends on individual needs, features like image resizing, comprehensive listings and the ability to copy those listings to multiple categories will make it much easier to get your storefront up and running.  Another useful capability comes from integration features that allow you to import product listings from an existing store into your new setup.  For example, you have some programs that let you import product listings from your current store, a spreadsheet or the location of your choosing.

Extensive Customization

The last thing you want is an online storefront that looks just like what everyone else has.  This is when an e-commerce software package that offers customization comes in handy.  There are some applications that allow to customize your store through a variety of pre-designed templates.  Others allow you to use development technologies such as HTML, CSS and PHP to change the look and feel of your store.  These programs generally require that you have a certain level of technical skills in order to make the modifications.  In either scenario, an e-commerce solution that enables customization can help to ensure you have an online store that is uniquely your own.

Integrated Shipping Calculators

The ideal e-commerce software will not only calculate your order totals, but also accurately calculate the shipping and handling charges associated with those orders.  To ensure flexibility, you may want to opt for something that gives you multiple ways to determine shipping.  For example, you may choose to charge for shipping based on the total of the order, or do so based on the weight of the item.  Another consideration that deserves attention is making commonly used shipping channels such as UPS, USPS and FedEx available to your customers.

Not all e-commerce software is created equal.  Then again, neither is every storefront.  Online stores differ greatly and so do the individual requirements of the merchants who maintain them.  Regardless of how feature-rich and powerful it may be, there is no single program that makes the perfect solution for everyone.  It is all about accessing your needs and understanding what it takes for your business to be successful.  One of the best approaches you can take is evaluating a few products, determining their value, and then selecting one that best suits your requirements.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – September 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET LLC, will be expanding its Magento Secure Isolated Platform (SIP) e-commerce web hosting plans.

The original SIP plans, launched in May 2009, are a tightly integrated combination of the popular Magento e-commerce software, combined with optimized high-end hardware and software to guarantee speed, reliability and security.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess noted, ”The SIP plans have really taken off. They’re popular with both small and large clients, including Fortune 500 companies which we’ve signed deals with in the last few weeks. Even the official Magento demo stores have been moved to SIPs.”

The new reseller plan will allow interested customers to resell Magento SIP plans. Mr. Wells added, ”We’ve been offering shared hosting reseller plans for years now, and these are essentially the same blueprint, except with the Magento SIP architecture.”

Each SIP reseller plan provides the reseller with five separate SIPs (approximately the same as a SIP100) at a discounted price. The reseller can then offer these SIP plans to their own clients.

Mr. Wells continued, ”Regular reseller plans are often a popular way for individuals or small companies to offer their own web hosting services to their clients. Perhaps they’re a web design business that wants to be able to offer their clients web hosting as well. We expect that SIPs will appeal to a very similar kind of customer, someone who wants to be able to offer their clients a professionally hosted, extremely secure and stable e-commerce platform.”

Final details of the new SIP reseller plan are available on the website. Nexcess plans to begin offering a standardized SIP plan based around the Magento Enterprise platform within the next month. Full details of all the Magento SIP plans are available on the NEXCESS.NET site.

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its own private data center in Dearborn, Mich. and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: http://nexcess.net.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – September 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET LLC, will be expanding its Magento Secure Isolated Platform (SIP) e-commerce web hosting plans.

The original SIP plans, launched in May 2009, are a tightly integrated combination of the popular Magento e-commerce software, combined with optimized high-end hardware and software to guarantee speed, reliability and security.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess noted, ”The SIP plans have really taken off. They’re popular with both small and large clients, including Fortune 500 companies which we’ve signed deals with in the last few weeks. Even the official Magento demo stores have been moved to SIPs.”

The new reseller plan will allow interested customers to resell Magento SIP plans. Mr. Wells added, ”We’ve been offering shared hosting reseller plans for years now, and these are essentially the same blueprint, except with the Magento SIP architecture.”

Each SIP reseller plan provides the reseller with five separate SIPs (approximately the same as a SIP100) at a discounted price. The reseller can then offer these SIP plans to their own clients.

Mr. Wells continued, ”Regular reseller plans are often a popular way for individuals or small companies to offer their own web hosting services to their clients. Perhaps they’re a web design business that wants to be able to offer their clients web hosting as well. We expect that SIPs will appeal to a very similar kind of customer, someone who wants to be able to offer their clients a professionally hosted, extremely secure and stable e-commerce platform.”

Final details of the new SIP reseller plan are available on the website. Nexcess plans to begin offering a standardized SIP plan based around the Magento Enterprise platform within the next month. Full details of all the Magento SIP plans are available on the NEXCESS.NET site.

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its own private data center in Dearborn, Mich. and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: http://nexcess.net.

Herndon, Virginia – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting provider, domain name registration and services firm, Network Solutions, recently announced, in celebration of Independence Day, that it will offer .US names at a discounted price.

Sean Kaine of Network Solutions remarked, ”The World Wide Web is moving beyond .com. As new top level domains are being added, the .US domain name extension remains a popular alternative for domain name registrations.”

After the original .com, .net and .org domain name extensions, .US is one of the most popular among United States individuals. The .US domain name is useful in signifying that a business is American owned and operated, as well as for companies for whom the business name .com domain name extension is taken by another organization.

Surrounding the July 4th celebration of Independence Day in the US, Network Solutions will have a banner on their Web site storefront offering access to the $9.99 .US domain name promotion.

Mr. Kaine added, ”Registering a .US domain is just as easy as before. But this discount offers added incentive.”

Network Solutions is a provider of web solutions and domain name registration services, offers a full range of web-related services, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions is privately owned by General Atlantic a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great management and build exceptional businesses worldwide.

For more information, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Herndon, Virginia – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting provider, domain name registration and services firm, Network Solutions, recently announced, in celebration of Independence Day, that it will offer .US names at a discounted price.

Sean Kaine of Network Solutions remarked, ”The World Wide Web is moving beyond .com. As new top level domains are being added, the .US domain name extension remains a popular alternative for domain name registrations.”

After the original .com, .net and .org domain name extensions, .US is one of the most popular among United States individuals. The .US domain name is useful in signifying that a business is American owned and operated, as well as for companies for whom the business name .com domain name extension is taken by another organization.

Surrounding the July 4th celebration of Independence Day in the US, Network Solutions will have a banner on their Web site storefront offering access to the $9.99 .US domain name promotion.

Mr. Kaine added, ”Registering a .US domain is just as easy as before. But this discount offers added incentive.”

Network Solutions is a provider of web solutions and domain name registration services, offers a full range of web-related services, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions is privately owned by General Atlantic a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great management and build exceptional businesses worldwide.

For more information, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.

Ann Arbor, Michigan – (The Hosting News) – July 1, 2009 – Web hosting service provider and Magento hosting solutions company, NEXCESS.NET has indicated that since the launch of its new Magento SIP hosting plans, which debuted in May, they have become their fastest-selling hosting plan.

Chris Wells, CEO of Nexcess remarked, ”We’ve been really gratified with the feedback. We were sure we’d put together a winning package geared specifically towards clients who were interested in running Magento-based online stores and were happy to see that we’d hit the mark. The popularity of the plans has necessitated adding new SIP servers faster than anticipated. We actually had to scramble a bit at first to keep up with the demand – but we keep plenty of extra hardware at our data center both for SIPs and all our other hosting plans, so there were no fulfillment problems.”

Mr. Wells added, ”Magento is a complex piece of software, and we’ve put a lot of effort into figuring out how to make it run optimally. A lot of our competitors try to run Magento as if it were just another piece of web software. It clearly needs a specialized environment to provide the performance level e-commerce sites require. Customers can really tell a difference when they move to a SIP from a generic one-size-fits-all solution.”

The Magento SIP (Secure Isolated Platform) plans consist of carefully chosen software and hardware which have been extensively tested and optimized to run the Magento e-commerce software as securely and efficiently as possible. The plans have proved popular because they include everything needed to get a Magento web store up and running smoothly, according to Wells.

Nexcess will be expanding their Magento SIP plans in the near future to include the recently released Enterprise edition of the Magento software, and will also offer SIP plans that use load-balanced clusters for very high traffic hosting scenarios.

Mr. Wells concluded, ”We were the first Magento Enterprise hosting partner, and can offer customized hosting packages using the Enterprise software. We’ll be updating our offerings to include Magento Enterprise Edition SIPs very soon.”

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in web hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to complex multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic heavy and high profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its private data center in Dearborn, Michigan and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.nexcess.net/magento.

Herndon, Virginia – (The Hosting News) – May 20, 2009 – Web hosting provider, domain name registration and services firm, Network Solutions, recently named Miles Reidy as the company’s new Executive Vice President and CFO, previously from Sears Holdings Corporation holding the same positions.

During his tenure as CFO for Sears Holding Company, Mr. Reidy led the development of strategy and financial management for the multi-billion dollar retailer. Prior to this role, he spent more than eight years at Capital One Financial Corporation, leading activities in banking integration, corporate planning and financial strategy. In addition he served as the CFO for Capital One Credit Card and Bank. Mr. Reidy’s experience also includes senior posts at a number of large commercial banks.

Roy Dunbar, CEO of Network Solutions remarked, ”Miles’ proven expertise in developing and directing analytical and data intensive functions will offer us fresh insights into our customers’ needs and the products and services we develop to meet those needs. I look forward to working with Miles and our executive team on further developing the blueprint for our next phase of growth.”

Mr. Reidy explained, ”There is a huge opportunity for companies that pro-actively engage small business owners by making it easy for them to take their companies online and market them. What attracted me to Network Solutions is the strong executive team led by Roy, along with an experienced and involved Board of Directors.”

Mr. Reidy received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Georgetown University and his Master of Science in Economics, from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Network Solutions is a provider of web solutions and domain name registration services, offers a full range of web-related services, including web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions is privately owned by General Atlantic a leading global growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great management and build exceptional businesses worldwide.

For more information, please visit: www.networksolutions.com.