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1. What is E-Commerce?
2. What is a Shopping Cart?
3. What is Miva Merchant?
4. What is Miva Merchant Pro and how is it different from the regular Miva Merchant?
5. What is Miva Synchro?
6. What is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)?
7. How can I obtain my own SSL Certificate?
8. How can I accept credit cards on my site?
9. Can I use PayPal with Miva Merchant?
10. Terms, Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy
- 1. What is E-Commerce? - Top
- E-commerce
(electronic commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services
on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. In practice, this term
and a newer term, e-business, are often used interchangeably. For
online retail selling, the term e-tailing is sometimes used.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 2. What is a Shopping Cart? - Top
- On
a website that sells products or services online, the shopping cart is
a common metaphor (from the original grocery store shopping cart) for
the catalog or other pages where a user reads and makes selections.
Typically, the user checks off any products or services that are being
ordered and then, when finished ordering, "Checks Out" by proceeding to
a page where the various information such as billing and shipping
information is collected and the order is placed and confirmed. The
programming that provides a website with the ability to build a
catalog, build its associated database and integrate pages into the
website that provide users the ability to shop is known as shopping
cart software.
A primary consideration when choosing shopping
cart software is whether it will continue to serve a website's needs as
its catalog and volume of orders grow. The shopping cart software we
offer ( osCommerce & Miva Merchant)
support
an unlimited number of products.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 3. What is Miva Merchant? - Top
- Miva
Merchant is a dynamic browser based storefront development and
management system that allows merchants to create multiple online
stores from anywhere in the world where there is internet access.
Miva
Merchant has a complete set of wizards to simplify the process of
building your store. The browser based administration interface
provides access to an array of more sophisticated tools to maintain
your catalog. Up sell merchandising and order fulfillment are included.
And Miva's modular architecture enables you with deep-down
customization for your storefront.
WestHost includes the
powerful Miva Merchant shopping cart with our packages. Creating an
online storefront has never been this easy, or this affordable. To find
the plan that best fits your needs, please visit our Packages Page.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 4. What is Miva Merchant Pro and how is it different from the regular Miva Merchant? - Top
- Miva
Merchant Pro is a value bundle offering more than just the Miva
Merchant software license. It is designed for advanced Miva users who
need access to the list of Miva Merchant modules in non-compiled
format, along with the license to compile and redistribute their
customized derivative module works royalty free. It includes Miva
Merchant, Miva Merchant Limited Source Kit, Miva Script Compiler. Miva
Merchant Pro is available for WestHost clients at a fraction of the
normal retail price. To add Miva Merchant Pro to your account, contact
us.
- Updated: February 20, 2004
- 5. What is Miva Synchro? - Top
- Miva Synchro is software developed by Miva Corporation
which allows the synchronization of products, customers and orders in
Miva Merchant with 3rd party applications like Quickbooks®. Miva
Synchro has the ability to synchronize automatically at user-specified
intervals or manually. It can also download Miva Merchant orders and
create QuickBooks Invoices or Sales Receipts.
- Updated: February 20, 2004
- 6. What is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)? - Top
- The
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a commonly used protocol for managing the
security of a message transmission on the Internet. SSL uses a program
layer located between the Internet's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layers. The "sockets" part of the
term refers to the sockets method of passing data back and forth
between a client and a server program in a network or between program
layers in the same computer. SSL uses the public-and-private key
encryption system from RSA.
SSL is an integral part of most Web
browsers (clients) and Web servers. If a Web site is on a server that
supports SSL, SSL can be enabled and specific Web pages can be
identified as requiring SSL access.
So in simpler terms, with an
SSL Web Server Certificate on your website, any information sent to
your web server is encrypted or scrambled, making it impossible to
intercept or steal. It also displays the identity of the website owner,
and the name of the independent authority who verified that identity,
such as Thawte.
WestHost has included a shared SSL web server
certificate on all of our packages. The shared SSL certificate that we
use is just as secure as a privately owned SSL certificate; the only
difference is that the shared SSL certificate address would not be
branded to your web site. If this is not important to you, using the
shared SSL certificate is a very economical way to secure transmission
of information on your web site. If you do need a branded SSL address,
then we can help you obtain your own SSL certificate.
Securing
the transmission of information to your business holds obvious
benefits, as does signifying that you are a trustworthy online
organization. SSL Web Server Certificate protects against password and
information interception, ensuring that your online relationship with
your clients will be one based on trust.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 7. How can I obtain my own SSL Certificate? - Top
- We can help you obtain your own SSL Certificate from Thawte.
WestHost is a Thawte Hosting Partner; this allows us to extend a
discounted price on SSL Certificates to all of our clients. The price
for an SSL Certificate is as follows:
- 1 Year: $185
- 2 Year: $299
If you would like to purchase your own SSL certificate, you can do that with our online form here.
We
have chosen Thawte as our SSL Certificate provider because we feel that
Thawte's certification practices are of the highest standard. We
believe that excellent authentication and verification procedures are
absolutely essential in order to ensure trust on the Internet. As a
truly international organization in the best sense, Thawte takes great
pride in its world-beating solutions.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 8. How can I accept credit cards on my site? - Top
- In
order to accept credit cards you must have a merchant account. WestHost
has partnered with payQuake, an affordable and reliable company, to
provide you with your own merchant account & online processing
system with no monthly minimum or setup fee. If you don't already have
a merchant account please contact
us for
information on obtaining one.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 9. Can I use PayPal with Miva Merchant? - Top
- We
offer the latest version of Miva Merchant, which does include support
for PayPal, a very popular account-based system that lets anyone with
an e-mail address securely send and receive online payments using their
credit card or bank account.
- Updated: August 7, 2003
- 10. Terms, Conditions and Acceptable Use Policy - Top
- Click Here.
- Updated: January 15, 2003
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