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Need a simple HTML website? |
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| $250.00 | Design, upload, launch and test your site using images and text content that you provide. Includes design of a company logo and your front page banner. PCR will also launch 1 domain name pointer. PCR will also help optimize your site for higher search engine ranking. |
| $50.00 (optional) | Design, launch and test your product order page in conjunction with ccnow.com |
| $250.00 (optional) | Implement Americart shopping cart in conjunction with Authorizenet and your existing merchant account. |
| $20.00 / hour (optional) | Make ongoing changes |
Notes: Your site will need to be hosted on a WSP (Web Space Provider). For most folks this will cost about $10.00 per month.
A domain (example: www.palisadesrepair.com ) will need to be registered at a cost of about $7.00 per year.
If you have sales of less than $5,000 per month then I highly recommend using ccnow.com, which charges a $9.95 sign-up fee, plus $0.50 per transaction (sale) plus 4.99% of gross sales. So ccnow will pocket about 7.5% on a $20.00 order. Taking orders is as simple as you receiving an email notification of an order, fulfilling the order by shipping it to the customer, then logging in to ccnow and noting that the order has been shipped. Ccnow pays every 15 days. I have used ccnow for 10 years with no problems whatsoever. They are very reliable and the simplest choice for taking Internet orders for most businesses.
On the other hand, having your own merchant account will allow you to only pay about 3% of sales, but you will also have to pay a setup fee, plus a monthly fee of perhaps $20, between $25 and $40 for a shopping cart via a company like Americart, and you will have to pay for integration with Authorizenet which charges a $99 setup fee, a $20 monthly fee, a 10 cent transaction fee, and a 25 cent batch fee. PCR charges $250 to set up these services to all work in harmony. Processing orders also involves more "hands on" effort. As you can see there is no justification for a merchant account unless you generate significant sales.