Automated "Real-Time" Credit Card Processing 

 Our hosting packages allow clients to process credit cards on-line using your choice of CyberCash or Authorize.net. Both allow on-line processing of orders, as opposed to collecting credit card information and then manually processing the transactions. Both have been servicing credit cards securely over the Internet since 1995, and work with leading financial institutions and payment processing networks. Their services are high-quality, convenient, and easy to use. Click on the icons above to visit their respective websites. 

Once you have secured your merchant account and setup an account with one of the above 
gateways, contact our Technical Support Dept. and we will enable the appropriate system on our servers.

Step 2: Your Shopping Cart or Secure Order Form

AlaCart Shopping Cart

AlaCart is a web-based shopping cart program that can hold up to 1000 products!

Features include:
• Graphical, easy-to-use, web-based Administration Suite
• Built-in Credit Card Validation
• Highly Customizable "Look and Feel"
• Unlimited Product Categories and Sub-Categories
• Automatic Shipping and Handling Charges, customized by the user
• Automatic Tax Table, completely customizable
• Product Search Capabilities
• Secure Order Processing
• Online Documentation

Remember, all colors, messages, product descriptions, logos, and titles are customizable. Here's a URL you can use to take a test drive of the Ala Cart shopping cart:

http://alacartadmin.alabanza.com/s-cart/index.phtml

Other Shopping Carts
In addition, we support any third party cart that runs on Unix/Linux. Popular Shopping Carts include Perl based carts such as Minivend. We also have the Miva Empresa Engine installed on our servers and support the Miva Merchant shopping cart system. 



Miva has the advantage of being completely web-based and does not require programming knowledge. Miva can be purchased outright  for $495 and does not require an additional monthly fee. However, there is a $50 setup fee for us to install it for you on our servers. You can take a test drive of Miva Merchant using the following link:

http://www.miva.com/products/demo/Merchant/

Basic Secure Order Forms
For sites that have only a few products and don't need a shopping cart, you can simply create your order form using a standard html form and then use the link we give you to our  FREE Secure Server which is included with Small Business and larger accounts. No need to pay extra for a Digital Certificate because we allow you to share ours! (Note: the shared certificate does not work with Ala Cart or third-party Shopping Carts).

Step 3 - Security and SSL Encryption

Secure Server
Transferring information securely over the internet is the key to the e-commerce revolution on the web. We give our clients a secure server using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) so they can offer their customers safe and secure transaction processing while doing business with them. We use the Apache-SSL software, which comes with all Small Business or larger packages. 

You also need a Digital Certificate for your domain which can be obtained from Thawte Consulting (http://thawte.com), OR, you can share our Digital Certificate at no extra charge. We support Digital Certificates from Thawte, Verisign, or Equifax.

The purpose of a secure server is to encrypt the information clients enter in forms on their browser before it is sent to the server. Our servers use 128 bit encryption, which is the highest level of security available for civilian purposes. This keeps your customer's information as private as technology will allow.

Password Protected Pages
Our clients can restrict web access to their site or to individual pages. If you wants to have a family section or perhaps a subscription-only section of your website, you can easily specify certain pages (or whole sections) to require a username and password from anyone trying to visit those pages. You can manage usernames and passwords through our Web-Based customer control  panel.