| E-commerce website sell products over the internet
(ej. Amazon.com, BN.com, Overstock.com). Basically the concept of e-commerce is the
idea of people being able to purchase product over the internet via credit
card without your constant supervision. The website gets hooked up to a
credit card machine on the server that will either decline or accept the
customer.
Sometimes people try to imitate e-commerce websites by offering
products on the website but taking the payment by phone or mail during
normal business hours. Do not be fooled! This is not e-commerce, even
though it is selling over the internet.
E-commerce websites used to pricey, because they involved a lot of
programming, but today services like paypal.com makes the cost of having
an e-commerce site much more manageable for small businesses.
Today more & more customers are turning to the internet, due to the
ease of shopping. Having the ability to only pay charges when an item is
sold over your site makes having an e-commerce site a no brainer!
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