When you are really serious about selling on-line, a shopping cart is the only way to go.

A Shopping Cart site allows you to offer an unlimited number of products displayed across multiple pages, captures billing and shipping information and calculates order subtotal, tax, shipping and order totals. License fee: $300 to $500 per year.

Requirements to Accept Credit Orders

Shopping Cart Sites Created by Cape Graphics:

The ideal method for single and limited item sales, donations and memberships.

Secure order forms are limited since all products must be displayed on a single page, limiting the number of product photos and will not perform calculations.

Requirements to Accept Credit Orders

Secure order form sites created by Cape Graphics: They have all converted to shopping carts.

This method will work, however, it requires more steps than users may want to take and could be considered the least successful method. It can be used in combination with other methods.

Using a fax form involves placing a printable order form on the site that a user may print, complete and then fax. They can be used for just about anything from ordering products to registering or joining some activity.

Printable order form sites created by Cape Graphics:

Phone:

To be really successful with this method, it is best to have a toll-free number and someone available to answer the phone. Voice mail may be less successful.

Accepting Credit Orders:

A Secure Certificate is required to accept credit card information.

The certificate, when applied to your web server, will encrypt the data to protect it from being intercepted and requires the web site to have it's own domain name.

The certificate is licensed on a yearly basis from companies like VeriSign.

The application for and initial certificate cost is  $390.
Yearly certificate renewal is $350.