Service: Ecommerce
Ecommerce can be a difficult and confusing thing to implement. Barhop Marketing has several years
of experience with setting up E-Commerce websites and we can set up your E-Commerce Website for you.
What type of product can you sell on your website? Most restaurant, bars, and clubs now-a-days sell
t-shirts, bar glasses, hats, bumper stickers, or whatever merchandise you already sell. If you don't
currently have merchandise to sell, then we can help you with this as well. Please look at our promotional
design page to read more information about this.
To view some of our prior E-Commerce Websites that we've set up in the past, please
click here.
To view our E-Commerce Packages, please
click here.
Steps for E-Commerce Website Setup:
In order to set up an ecommerce store on the Internet you need 4 things:
- Shopping Cart - This is software that handles the listing and management of your products and
customers. We have software that we use and will integrate the look and feel of your website, either
existing or if we design it ourselves.
- SSL Certificate - This is the software that encrypts each transaction and keeps hackers from
stealing your customer's credit card information. In the past, SSL certificates would cost upwards of
$5,000 per year, but with recent advances and competition, we can purchase these for under $100.
SSL certificates must be renewed yearly to remain valid.
- Payment Gateway - This is the company that will handle your credit card transactions. They also check for fraudulent
charges to credit cards. The company that we recommend and use almost exclusively is Authorize.net. You
will pay this company a monthly rate to handle your transactions.
- Merchant Account - This is the company that the payment gateway sends the money to. You can usually
have the money from this account automatically sent to your actual bank account nightly.