Bringing eCommerce to Your Business

Technology has been a tremendous equalizer, serving to reduce costs and bringing capabilities to the hands of billions—mobile phones, which now provide communication capabilities to over four billion people, is one of the most successful examples.

eCommerce is another example of a technology that is now widely available to consumers and to businesses. Paypal (www.paypal.com) and Google Checkout (http://checkout.google.com) are two services designed to allow consumers and businesses of any size to buy and sell safely online.

Here is an example of a small eCommerce project that allows the sale and distribution of digital content.

Objective:

To allow customers to securely purchase digital content and to allow those customers to immediately download the content.

Requirements:

- secure transactions using trusted services;
- transaction reporting;
- ease of implementation and use;
- low cost.

Solutions Considered:

There are a number of eCommerce services available, including 2Checkout.com (www.2Checkout.com.com), AlertPay (www.AlertPay.com), Digital River (www.digitalriver.com), E-Junkie (www.E-Junkie.com), Payloadz (www.payloadz.com), SubHub (www.subhub.com/), Tradebit (www.Tradebit.com), TrialPay (www.TrialPay.com). We decided to implement E-Junkie because, in addition to meeting our requirements, we felt comfortable with its documentation, client list, and user reviews.

Implementation:

It was simple to create a free E-Junkie trial account that is good for seven days. “Goods” available in the store we created include subscriptions to ongoing proprietary market research, and purchase of individual research reports. The subscription content is delivered separately over time as it created, while the individual reports are available for immediate download. To see how this solution was implemented, visit these links:

- Subscription Registration and Payment: http://whitaker.com/StoreTHEOPERATOR.aspx.
- Individual Report for Immediate Download: http://whitaker.com/StoreGoogleVoice.aspx.
- This Report—“Bringing eCommerce to Your Business”—to demonstrate immediate payment and download (cost: $ 0.10): http://HelpAsNeeded.com/StoreeCommerce.aspx.

Further Information:

Contact +1 (202) 683-7384 or send email to Info@HelpAsNeeded.com for further information and to explore how we can help your business.

August 20, 2009.