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Increase Sales - Accept Credit Cards Online!

What Is E-Commerce?

E-commerce, simply put, is the process of buying and selling things over the Internet. The "E" stands for "electronic". To create an e-commerce system, or "online store", one must have several components in place. These usually consist of:

• some type of product or service catalog
• the payment page
• linkage from the payment page to a Transaction Processor
• a secure certificate (to encode credit card information)
  
• a merchant account arrangement with an authorized company, and
• a bank account to receive the funds

To set up online ordering, you may have 2 major problems -

#1 - LACK OF DATA (In English, that is...)
What exactly is needed to do online payments?
After setting up a number of systems for clients, we discovered that most web sites offering "e-commerce solutions", are either very confusing or they leave out major parts needed to make this all work, or both. Of course the unsuspecting business owner does not realize this until halfway through the process.

#2 - UNNECESSARY MIDDLEMEN (And their unnecessary fees!)
What is the minimum number of companies needed?
After setting up our first online payment system, we discovered that we had paid "Company A" over $750 in set up fees, only to be turned over to "Company B". Then "Company B" (sharing the setup fees) passed us to "Company C", the actual processing company! Then we found that the "shopping cart" software needed major alterations! More costs!

I said to myself, "There's got to be a better way!"

We searched and searched and searched, but unfortunately, there was no place that had everything one needs in ONE LOCATION! That's when we decided to create our own.

We have researched the Internet far and wide and have a simple, cost free method of getting started with e-commerce.

In addition, for those who want standard merchant accounts and credit card acceptance for their sites, Profit Gate has arranged a deal with Total Merchant Services, one of the largest and most trusted names in e-commerce.

Profit Gate provides 2 ways to set up your E-Commerce System:

• A method of setting up your online store that costs NOTHING!
• A method where Profit Gate sets up your system for a very low fee

Our Standard merchant accounts come with:

• One company, one low fee, one bill. (Possibly a Web First)
• All fees disclosed from the start. (Definitely a First)
• Complete explanation of the process. (Another First)
• Do it yourself or pay us to do it. (At very reasonable fees)

Our Goals are simple:

• To provide FULL disclosure of all relevant information to any business wanting an online ordering system
• To provide ALL of the elements needed to set up an online order system at rock-bottom prices
• To provide ALTERNATIVES including a FREE online payment system