What is Ecommerce Web Hosting?

[william1194]

E-commerce hosting is a business in which a company provides other companies whatever they need to sell their products and services on the World Wide Web - including a Web server to serve a company's pages, possibly the Web site design (including catalog pages), and the special capabilities needed to accept, process, and confirm sales orders. E-commerce hosting usually includes providing templates for building virtual storefronts or online catalogs, providing software for customized electronic "shopping carts," taking and filling customer orders, arranging for secure credit-card purchasing, and providing tools for tracking and managing inventory.

[kasif]

Ecommerce hosting is a business that furnishes merchants with solutions for selling their merchandise online. The merchant is typically billed monthly for using space on the hosting company's server.

[cracker]

Ecommerce hosting is an option offered by many Web hosting service providers. In addition to supplying ecommerce functionality, they will also provide Web space (a Web server) to host your website, an email server or email support, technical support and other standard Web hosting features for businesses.

[safani]

Ecommerce web hosting is invisible to your customers, but it's really important for their experience. Bad ecommerce web hosting can even affect your chances of securing the sale- a fractionally slower page can frustrate buyers and will alienate a percentage.

[incomecracker]

Ecommerce hosting is an option offered by many Web hosting service providers. In addition to supplying ecommerce functionality, they will also provide Web space (a Web server) to host your website, an email server or email support, technical support and other standard Web hosting features for businesses.

[smithroy]

E-commerce hosting usually offers set-up services for Internet merchant accounts, which can process major credit card transactions. Some e-commerce hosts may even register their clients' domain names. Business-to-business e-commerce transactions between business services and demographic data gathering may also be offered by host providers.