What is Ecommerce and what does my web hosting accoount need to run it?

Electronic Commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of buying and selling products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage.

If you have an idea or exciting product to seel, an website is an excellent way to do it because you have potential buyers all over the world. To this end, abdicar.com provides several solutions for eCommerce websites.

If you have an umentered shared web hosting plan (with the exception of USH-Xtreme) using Plesk as a control panel, the user is provided with the renowned "Application Packaging Standard," which provides, in conjunction with www.apsstandard.com, more than 100 aplicaciones that can be installed with just a few clicks of your control panel.  

Some of these applications are apt for eCommerce, such as shopping carts.   

Some of the shopping carts offered through APS are:

 

  • Avactis Shopping Cart

  • CRE Loaded

  • CS-Cart

abdicar.com conducts eCommerce transactions on its own website.  We can therefore tell you that we are very familiar with online sales. 

 

What do you need to run an eCommerce website?

 

The technical requirements are quite basic:

 

  • You must have a dedicated IP address intalled in your shared hosting account in which your scripts will run. 

  • You can order a dedicated IP address through our Customer Portal

  • You must have an SSL certificate.  You may read more information about SSL Certificates in our other services section of the abdicar.com website.  

  • You can also order an SSL certificate directly from abdicar.com.

Our eCommerce and managed services specialists are always available for consultations.  abdicar.com offers very reasonably priced eCommerce solutions.  Our Customer Portal is always just a click away. 

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