Ecommerce hosting the business of business hosting

E-COMMERCE HOSTING

E-commerce hosting is a business in which a company provides other companies whatever they need to sell their products and services on the World Wide Web – including a Web server to serve a company’s pages, possibly the Web site design and the special capabilities needed to be  accepted, process, and confirms sale orders. 

E-commerce hosting usually include providing templates for building virtual storefronts or online catalog, providing softwares for customized electronic “shopping cart,” taking and filling of  customers orders, arranging for secured credit-card purchasing, and providing tool for tracking and managing inventory.  ITS WORKING

A company contracts with an e-commerce hosting provider to purchase hosting space on its computer servers. This space is usually  billed monthly, along with  leasing of computer software for processing online order. The computer server may be shared with  other clients, or in the case of companies expecting a substantial amount of traffic, may be dedicated exclusively to one client only.

To ensure secure payment process, these providers also usually assists with setting up Internet merchant account, which are bank accountss established to process Visa’s, MasterCard’s, American Express and Discover credit-card transactions. Some hosting providers will registered a company domain name as part of the package.

E-commerce hosting firms customarily manage all the technical aspects of creating and maintaining a commercial Web site for its customers. For smaller companies, this is often the more effective and cost-efficient than setting up and manageing their own e-commerce site themselves since they are essentially sharing the cost of expensive equipment and Internet connections with other companies.

An e-commerce hosting provider may also provides services other than managing online transactions, including EDI, the gathering of demographic or other information (usually for marketing purposes), or transactions between businesses (business-to-business e-commerce).

Advantages of Ecommerce

 1) Buying and selling procedure is very fast as well as it is easy to find products.

2) Buying and selling 24/7.

3) More reach to customers, there is no theoretical geographic limitations.

4) Low operational costs and better quality of services.

5) No need of physical company set-ups.

6) Easy to start and manage a business.