Web Design: E-commerce

Trading online doesn't cost a fortune
Tesco and Amazon spent millions creating their online shops - you don't have to. Without a doubt their shops are amazingly complicated and full of wonderful features but it isn't necessary (or often desirable) to create that sort of shop initially.

Basic requirements are:

• shopping basket software
• internet merchant account
• method of accepting payment

Shopping basket system:

We recommend Actinic Catalog or Actinc Business for most businesses wanting to create an online store. It is now extremely flexible and offers everything from store creation to order processing. www.actinic.co.uk.

However, if your requirements cannot be met using Actinic, we can produce a system tailored to your exact requirements.

Example of Actinic Catalog shop   Shop4Sport.co.uk is the ecommerce enabled end point for Forrester Sports group of websites, the other sites being:   shop4kit.co.uk shop4rackets.co.uk shop4trophies.co.uk   The sites were delivered in March 2003 and Forrester Sports are currently doing great business via the Internet.   The same company has now opened another website using Actinic Business, to sell school uniforms: www.forrestersuk.co.uk   Contact us for a free, no obligation quotation

Merchant Account

If you haven't already got a merchant account through your bank, WorldPay can help. They have an acceptance rate of over 90% and you could start using your internet payment facilities in as little as 48 hours.

Accepting Credit Cards

We will integrate the shopping basket system with a secure payment processing system. There are many to choose from for example WorldPay. With these systems you can select to either link direct to your merchant provider (e.g. Barclays Merchant Services, NatWest Streamline etc) so that payment is taken as soon as the customer clicks on the "Accept" button, or the system can store the customers credit card details in a secure database ready for collection by you and for you to process in your own time using your PDQ terminal.