eShops at 1&1

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:59:00 GMT

Web host 1&1 is moving full force into the ecommerce market with a new line of eShop packages (a stand-alone ecommerce solution). Priced starting at $9.99 per month for a maximum 50 products (Advanced eShop priced at $49.99 a month for up to 20,000 products), aspiring merchants will receive some great features including eBay integration, secure payment processing and marketing tools.

Built using the template-driven Shop Designer, users can "point and click" publish their sites and use a drag-and-drop interface to post products. eShops include secure online payment methods via PayPal, WorldPay and the 1&1 Merchant Account, which gives you low rates on credit and debit transactions. eShops accept all major credit cards, variable currencies and automatically calculates state taxes.

Advanced stock management and order management functionality
Customer management functionality and customer groups
Over 100 design templates
Product promotion on popular shopping search engines, like Shopping.com
Discount tools - Bulk prices, special offers and customer group discounts
1&1 Marketing Tools - Simple Submission, to submit your website to search engines, and an E-mail Marketing tool to send newsletters
Cross-selling to make other product recommendations
Generous web space and traffic allowances

In order for 1&1's many US hosting customers to experience eShop technology, 1&1 has added a free basic level eZShop to all new and existing Home, Business and Developer Linux web hosting packages.

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eShops at 1&1