Hosting and Domain Registration Assistance If you opt to own your online store rather than leasing from a hosted provider, MyBusinessAssistant can help you find the reliable independent hosting provider that’s right for you. Acting on your behalf, our technical web team will evaluate your website needs and then recommend the right technology and hosting provider.

Tip: Choosing your own hosting provider? Be sure your hosting company provides reliable, reachable technical support. We recommend that you create your business account with the hosting provider personally.

Design and layout We will design your web site for maximum usability with intelligent customer driven navigation.

We can also provide usability studies and analysis. Effective ecommerce site design incorporates a thorough understanding of how your customers utilize your site. Our technical team will analyze the comparative effectiveness of factors such as:

• Category layout
• Graphic selection assistant
• Product grid display
• Large vs. small photos
• Short & simple list vs. item detail
• Web content development

Shopping cart platform selection, development and maintenance

MyBusinessAssistant helps you make sense of the myriad shopping cart platform options available so you can choose the right option at the right price that works for your business. Learn More

MyBusinessAssistant developers are highly experienced in many shopping cart applications and can assist you in the development and maintenance with your non-hosted shopping cart. We frequently work in the most popular open source shopping carts like x-Cart, osCommerce, Virtue Mart, Zen. Currently we are leveraging Magento, a leading edge open source E-commerce platform that is revolutionizing the E-commerce industry. We highly recommend Magento application for all serious ecommerce business owners. We can download the Magento and customize it completely for your business. Learn about Magento

Payment Gateways

We can integrate a rock-solid system that passes information securely between the customer, you and your payment processor.

Integration with different 3rd party applications

We can take care of any 3rd party application integration required with your E-commerce platform or shopping cart. Common integrations include integrating with your accounting application like QuickBooks, Order management system.

Integration with different 3rd party applications

• FAQs
• Guided Navigation
• Keyword search and Advanced search
• Top Seller and What’s New
• Daily and Seasonal specials
• Site personalization
• Enlarged product views
• Mouse-overs
• Store Locator
• Frequent Buyer programs
• Affiliate programs
• Online gift certificates, coupons and rebate programs
• Catalog quick order
• Point of Sale (POS)
• Interactive Catalogs
• Dynamic Imaging
• Email a friend
• Product recommendation and ratings
• Product customization
• Product comparison
• Product syndications (eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Pricegabber, Google base, Overstock)
• Syndicated Content and feeds
• Social networking (Sharethis.com)
• Hacker Safe and PCI compliance
• Buy Safe Seal
• Google checkout
• Comprehensive store administrator control center. Feature-rich executive dash board with drill down functionality.
• Print invoices, packing slips, receipts etc.
• Built-in CRM for customer segmentation and profiling, purchase histories and marketing analytics
  

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