How It Works: E-Commerce 101

Given all the benefits of selling online, why aren't you selling our products on your website?

Setting up a web store doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. We take care of all the technical details, all you need to do is focus on serving our customers and growing your business.

What You Need

To sell your products online, you'll need 3 main components, all of which come with BuzzCart.

Shopping Cart

First and foremost, you'll need a shopping cart. A shopping cart allows you to display your products in a comprehensive online catalog. It should contain a search function so customers can easily find your products. It should allow you to post high quality images and add detailed product descriptions. A good shopping cart should provide automatic tax and shipping calculations and allow customers an easy way to check out and pay for their purchase. And it should also make it easy for you to maintain your products and manage orders.

BuzzCart meets all of these requirements, and includes many more advanced features that will make our online store successful and profitable.

Security Certificate

One of the most important things about serving your customers online is to build their trust. To do this, you need to ensure their personal and financial details are secured from prying eyes. A security certificate (or SSL certificate) is what enables customers to communicate with our store in a secure communication channel. The certificate is what makes the "padlock" icon in your browser show itself as locked, indicating communication with the web site is secure.

When you sign up with BuzzCart, we provide you with a free Thawte SSL Security Certificate for your store.

In addition to this SSL Security Certificate, BuzzCart also offers ScanAlert HACKER SAFE® certification.

Payment Processing

In order to sell online, you'll need to accept some form of online payments. This can be as easy as using a PayPal account to accept payments, or processing credit cards in real time as orders are placed.

If you want to accept credit cards, you'll need a merchant account. If you don't have a merchant, we can help you get one. Once you have your merchant account, you can simply process customers credit cards offline at your POS terminal. This is the easiest way to process low-volume orders.

If you want to go to the next level, you can process credit cards online as the order is placed. To do this, you'll need a gateway account in addition to our merchant account. A gateway account acts as the bridge between your shopping cart and your merchant account. If you already have a gateway account, chances are BuzzCart already supports it. We can connect to dozens of popular Internet gateways. If you need a gateway account, BuzzCart is an Authorize.Net partner, and can provide you with an account on one of the most robust and widely used gateways available.

Whether you want to process credit cards offline, process them in real time, or simply use PayPal or other offline payment methods, BuzzCart will meet your needs.

Remember, BuzzCart provides an easy solution to meet all of these requirements. BuzzCart is the right solution for expanding your business online.