Questions related to buy and selling of products or services via electronic means.
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What is the difference between a Payment Processor and a Merchant Account and Payment Gateway?
I'm also wondering what each of those does. Seems like with the Ecommerce solution I'm considering that everytime I think I've got it all figured out, it turns out that we need yet another service to ...
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185 views
Sales Tax on Digital Purchases
Are you required to charge sales tax for digitally downloaded content? (e-book, video, etc)
Location: Florida
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Tracking offline advertising campaigns?
In online advertisements we have Google Analytics, SiteCatalyst, and other web analytics solutions to monitor our campaign’s click-through and conversion rates. How do we keep track those things with ...
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225 views
Choosing an eCommerce solution for low-priced digital goods
I am currently developing a website that will be selling low-priced digital goods (user-generated travel itineraries) - most will be priced between $0.99-$2.99. I've been searching for an eCommerce ...
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How to make customers eager to give comments about products which they bought from us?
I have an online store which sells baby products. Thankfully, some customers have already bought my products, although my startup is just 2 months old. One of my plans is to make my customers come ...
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Am I doing this right - is ecommerce all a numbers game?
Am I right in assuming if I can figure out the amount of sales I need to cover my monthly expenses and make a profit, that I must then simply drive enough visitors to my website to cover a 2% ...
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Should I join a startup or go to Amazon?
I have a two job offers:
Amazon - Merchandising Specialist. I would be working with vendors, managing inventory and analysis of sales, and marketing the products.
Ecommerce Startup - I would be the ...
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3answers
217 views
Do you think it would make a difference if customers knew you were a one-man-band?
I'm having a dispute with someone who has a commerce website, they want to maintain a professional image and prefer not to reveal to [potential] customers that they are in fact an entrepreneur working ...
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What is the most affordable combination for taking credit card payments online from around the world?
I have looked at the similar questions posted and believe mine is different - please read the specifics of my question below:
Assuming we do not want to use PayPal (or Google Checkout etc.), it seems ...
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Options for merchant/payment solution (end-to-end) for international companies based outside of the US?
As a follow-up to this post: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/615/what-is-the-best-merchant-processing-solution what are some merchants that people have had a good experience with.
I am ...
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2answers
143 views
How helpful is a blog for social ecommerce website
I see many websites having their own blogs. The blogs feature mainly the event news and some product information. After reading few of the articles and answers on this site, I see that blogs add to ...
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2answers
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Is it a bad idea to have a direct credit card buying option on my website?
I'm preparing a digital product that I'm going to sell in the days to come. I am a programmer, so I don't have any problems in preparing my website and even setting Paypal to handle my payment system.
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250 views
Best way to pay users
Lets say I make the next google ads service (hypothetically speaking), how can I pay my users in more or less real time? with minimal or no additional cost to the company.
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How many ecommerce websites are out there?
Our company is providing a service to ecommerce websites, and we're struggling to find reliable stats on how large our potential base is.
Does anyone know where to obtain a reasonable estimation of ...
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4answers
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Seller permit to sell online in US for non resident
I am a non resident of US. I'm setting up this online store where you can buy consumer products - targeted at US market. When I approached wholesale suppliers who don't have any affliate model they ...
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1answer
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revenue model for new startup- help
I am starting an ecommerce marketplace of local vendors. one of my sources of revenue will be lead generation, however I am pretty undecided on how much to charge vendors for every lead I would ...
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2answers
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Good ecommerce website for small transactions? [closed]
I want to sell some software online for about $10-15 per unit, probably very few units will be sold initially. Does anybody know any good ecommerce website for this kind of small and infrequent ...
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2answers
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How do I market my app without being a jerk?
I created an app for a popular shopping cart. It is now listed in their app store and it gaining some traction, but not as much as I'd like. The idea for the app came from users asking for it so I ...
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eCommerce Bootcamp ( focused on eBay and PayPal )
Have a client that's asked me if I'd be able to clear tens of thousands of dollars of existing inventory via eBay. While it seems like a stretch, figured I'd look into it for them just to give them ...
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How to start a UK online business? (admin)
A few years ago I had an idea for an online business, its going to operate as a freemium model and simply deal with information no tangible goods. since then I have been creating the site learning ...
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2answers
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Can I sell in the US without a SSN?
I wanted to start a US business - despite being based in the UK - because the US is where most of my target market is (besides suppliers). I've read on PayPal's site ...
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How big is the cake of handmade crafts market？
Like the etsy. I noticed that it has been profitable for years. many users sell handmade carfts on it.
I'm living in China now and I want to build a ecommerce website to sell some chinese handmade ...
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2answers
735 views
I am starting a global e-commerce business - what are the benefits of registering in a tax haven?
Which tax havens would you recommend for this and why? When should we register - early on or once we are earning a certain amount?
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3answers
673 views
Best offshore merchant account
What is a good options for an offshore merchant account? I'm not located in the US where it is easy to get a good merchant account, do you know of any good options in offshore locations?
The country ...
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5answers
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What's the optimal flow for a check-out process?
We have a consumer site that sell virtual good with a shopping cart and checkout. Is it better to have users enter all of the required information on one page or two? Any good examples of checkouts ...
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to create blog/forum under a separate site or build under current site
inspired by hubspot, we're dedicated to creating more remarkable content. we think it can be engaging and relevant for our customers. we feel mass-customized apparel is an area that doesn't have that ...
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Software E-Commerce/E-Business Foreign Entity LLC and License and Tax requirements
I am wanting to startup a software, app, games business conducted through the internet.
I am in Missouri, the state where I plan to do work from.
I did research and found that Delaware or Nevada would ...
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4answers
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Is this e-commerce launch promotion a winner or loser?
I'm thinking of offering 3 x $50 gift certificates for the first order received from each of the 52 states. The product's range in price from $69.00 to $139.00. Winner or loser?
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1answer
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Question about how much informaiton I should collect for my digital downloads store. Paypal is the only payment gateway!
Paypal is the only payment gateway!
so, my current system only collects seller's PayPal email addressed and create buttons based on that email address.
since its all digital downloads, there will be ...
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2answers
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Our site sells an expensive product most people only buy once. How do we encourage word of mouth promotion?
Our start-up will sell engagement rings online. We recently discovered that a major source of traffic for the market leader is word of mouth recommendations.
We know that great customer service, and ...
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2answers
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Foreign LLC vs Domestic LLC - Wyoming & South Carolina
Please help. I'll make this as simple and concise as possible:
I will be manufacturing my own parts, AT HOME, in South Carolina. I intend to sell the products exclusively online with an online ...
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8answers
529 views
Starting a new business and building a website
I want to start a business selling food items, such as green teas. How can I go about building a website for it? I have no prior experience with selling items or building a website. I am motivated for ...
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How should I charge web customers for small transaction amounts?
EDIT 1:
So in short, is there a free way for me to get $1 from a customer and send that $1 to my bank account. If free is not an option, what is the cheapest way for me to get that $1 to my bank ...
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How do startups sell online, manage customer relationships and support their products?
We want to setup an online shop for our (physical) products. When a customer registers to order a product, we want this information to be registered to a CRM automatically so we can track our future ...
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competing with Amazon, how to, the smart approach
For a number of months I have been thinking how to create an e-commerce solution that competes with Amazon. I came up with an idea that is probably lame, but i'd like to understand why it will not ...
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Suggestion for my eCommerce business. [Selling developed software]
I have developed few software products for micro to small businesses and a security product. I want to market these products but I can't spend much on paid online marketing.
I am noticing that social ...
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What do potential customers look for once they land on the homepage?
If a potential customer visit to a particular website, what are the things he will check,
1) What is the page rank of the website
2) what is the competency of the company
3) How much clients company ...
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Average e-commerce income and revenue statistics
I'm interested to find out these statistics (below), or estimates per sector for e-commerce websites in the united states.
If you have access to this kind of data, sharing it will help us alot ...
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Funding Options for my Startup
We have an online shopping portal which is mainly India focused.
We are now 14 months old and deal in multiple product categories like books, electronics, apparels, gifts, movies etc
We are looking ...
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2answers
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Reports needed for ecommerce and advertising
I'm planning to have a develop build a CMS (in Ruby on Rails) with blogging, advertising and ecommerce integration.
Many types of reports/charts would seem necessary in such a system: Unique ...
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775 views
Starting an online shop
I am planning to start two online shops but do not have any experience in the field. What are the things to keep in mind? I am quite concerned about managing the supply chain in one in which the ...
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3answers
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Working with ecommerce fulfillment companies
I'm about to launch a new ecommerce startup and I'm considering using this e-fulfillment company until I can afford my own. But I have some concerns:
E-fulfillment companies often run a bunch of ...
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Looking for a UK online payment solution that only takes a percentage or a flat fee [closed]
I'm currently looking for an online payment solution for a business website I'm working on and it turns out it's a bit more complex than I'd first though.
I'd like to run at a very small download fee ...
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E-Commerce Website for Retail AND wholesale
I work for a clothing designer company (Kit + Lili) that has been in business for 5 years. We currently sell our product wholesale using a company called Groupe BDM and retail through Shopify. It is ...
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First time credit card processor?
Does anyone have any experience when it comes to jumping directly into your own credit card processor and merchant account with an online startup? I know some merchant accounts require you are already ...
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4answers
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3rd Party Merchant Services
I'm looking for a 3rd party payment handling site to sell my software. Currently I have shortlisted Avangate (www.avangate.com) and Fastspring (www.fastspring.com). Fastspring seems to have the ...
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What are the best analytics tools?
we are using Google analytics and clicktale to improve our conversion
what are the best tool other than those two?
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Length of Sign-up process- help?
I am starting a website consisting of info of local shops. now I am in a dilemma over the vendor sign-up process, I want to know should I do it one of the following ways -
1 - just ask for contact ...
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Multi-vendor marketplace-Dealing with transactions & Payments
I'm a few weeks into developing a multi-vendor, business to business website. Here is my issue:
We could potentially have a single user purchasing from multiple sellers at one time.
We are ...
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How to sell software through third-party distributors online
I'd like to sell a software program (that my startup developed) through third-party online sellers.
Any tips about how to approach the other sellers and structure the transaction? Is the best way ...
