What goes into it?
Creating an online storefront involves a lot more than just plopping the storefront out there and getting it to process online orders. Before the storefront is going to work as it's supposed to, a merchant account must be setup as well as applying for and obtaining a transaction processor service. Both these processes requires the submittal of appropriate paperwork. After obtaining these items, there's a good deal of setup to configure the server to handle your storefront, not to mention the installation of an IP address and digital certificate so that your orders will be secure. We're happy to say that we take care of the details so that all you have to do is supply a few pieces of key information and wait for the storefront to become operational - and we do it for a very reasonable price to boot! All that said, we thought you might like a simplified picture of the process:
* Necessary information required includes Business name, Requesting Business Officer's name, Employer Identification Number, Business Bank Account Name, Account Number, and routing number. **Siteservants has a business relationship with Discover Business Services. Once your Discover Business Services Merchant account is setup, you wil be billed via the credit card which you provide them with, a monthly monthly fee in the amount of approximately $12.00 plus a small per transation transaction fee. ***All storefronts run on the same co-hosted windows server environment. Each storefront requires a digital certificate which in turn requires a dedicated IP address. Therefore, in order to hook-up a digital certificate (SSL) your business will be billed $25.00 per month for that IP address.