Data Ensure, Inc. can create a variety of solutions for your company. We offer a broad range of packages, from small online ordering sites, to corporate sites with millions of hits a day. Let Data Ensure, Inc. custom design a solution for you. E-commerce can help your business get to the top and stay there, by allowing your business the ability to process credit cards and virtual check draft directly from your web site. Data Ensure, Inc.' clients, can now commerce enable any website within 60 business days. This will allow you to accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express and virtual check drafts directly from your website, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, from anywhere in the world.

Okay, you're wondering what hardware or software do I need to enable site to accept credit cards? Enabling a site to accept credit cards and/or virtual bank drafts, is actually a rather simple task. It simply requires the web site to have a secure method of accepting payments. These virtual payments are sent via a gateway to a bank (of your choice) which verifies the transaction and the credit cards authenticity and then transfers the money from one bank to another. On the front-end, you will need the program that allows you the ability to accept on-line payments (a shopping cart). Then you will need an on-line processor (a company that allows you, for a small transaction and/or monthly fee, to verify the transaction and move the money) and a merchant account with a bank (this allows you a location to have the money moved to). The hardware involved is normally nothing more than your existing web site. The software can be a all-in-one package or smaller pieces of software called modules.

Now your mind is really wondering, "What is a shopping cart program and do I need one?" Shopping cart programs allow your customers to keep track of their items and totals. It is simply the store front for your merchandise. think of it as a real physical store, you take a shopping cart and fill it with items that you want to purchase. When you are finished, you take your purchases to the cash register and pay for them. This is what a Shopping Cart on-line can do for you. Shopping cart programs range for very simple to complex. Many of the sites you have seen online that offer virtual shopping utilize these programs. It offers your customers the ability to keep track of all their purchases, while seeing the total pricing and various details, such as shipping.

Hold on, back up.  What is an on-line processor and do I need one? An on-line processor is nothing more than a middle man, who's job is nothing more than taking the credit card information that you provide them and verifying the transaction and authorizing the transfer of money. In the real world, this is the little machine in which the cashier swipes your credit card in. This machine verifies that the card is good and active and then gives the store a transaction number which equates to the transfer of the money. If you intend to do real time credit authorizing, then you will need an on-line processor. Some business still prefer to have the credit card number sent to them via secure email and they in-turn contact the bank to get the money transferred. Either method works on the Internet, each with it's own pluses and negatives.

Data Ensure, Inc. can help you find a solution for on-line payment processing. We will find the most cost effective option available for you. In order to process a customers payment and transfer it to your own account, you will need to use some type of payment processing. And Data Ensure, Inc. is here to help you search through all the options. We have experience in setting up accounts, and know which ones will suit your needs.

Okay okay. What is a merchant account and do I need one? A merchant account is nothing more than a bank that allows your on-line credit card processor to add and remove money from an account set up in your name. The merchant account bank is who pays you the money for the items your customer purchased. Data Ensure, Inc. also offers the ability to help you find a merchant account. A merchant account is used to process online payments through your own site. Avoid the hectic problems with finding your own, and let Data Ensure, Inc. do the work for you. We can customize your site for your merchant account.

Last question. How does this work? Once your merchant account is set up and running, you can integrate it with a shopping cart. Our shopping cart development and site creation is bar none, the best.  We offer hosting plans that are https SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption standard to encrypt credit card data as well as unsecured. These features give you the ability to convert your website from an electronic brochure to a virtual storefront without the addition of a clerk.

 

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