Conquest Hosting - E-Commerce

E-Commerce Hosting For the Beginner Or The Expert

Offering your products and services for sale online has gotten easier, cheaper, and much more user friendly especially with our new shopping cart CartXpress by OsCommerce. Whether you’re a seasoned player in the world of E-Commerce or just starting out, we have the right hosting tools and plans for you. We provide a reliable E-Commerce hosting solution that adapts to the growing needs of your business.

There are basic steps you need to follow to get started with online sales:

1. Setup A Shopping Cart - The heart of any business website, a shopping cart is how your customers browse and request to purchase your products. Ease-of-use is a key element in a user's shopping cart experience. Our Business Hosting Plan provides CartXpress to meet your E-Commerce needs. CartXpress is the leading open source E-Commerce application and features extensive flexibility, convenient reporting, and an active user community.

2. Get a Merchant Account and a Payment Gateway: Merchant accounts allow/authorize you to take credit cards, and gateways facilitate the process online. We first suggest that you check with your current banking partner, if you have an established relationship with them it can be a great place to start. If you need a merchant account you can view our information that will help you get started.

3. Add Secure SSL (HTTPS) Capability: In order to take credit card information from your customers you will need to have secure order and cart pages - pages beginning with "https" and having that familiar "lock" in the lower right corner of the browser window. All Conquest Hosting customers have FREE access to the use of our server secure certificates - see SSL Security for more details. If you would like to purchase your own SSL certificate, for "https://yourdomain.com" type URLs, you can use the "GeoTrust" tool in your account control panel. GeoTrust certs use industry standard 128-but encryption, and are available for $99/year - more than $200 less than the Verisign cert!