Price: $499 first year, $249 annual renewal, including hosting, use of on-line software, domain registration and fast, friendly support.
If you want to sell products on the web, the StevesIdeas Web Merchant Package is for you!
With more than thirty page types and modules at your disposal, our Web Merchant Package gives you the tools you need to present your products to potential customers in a professional manner. If you choose, you can include the PayPal® interface, which gives you a shopping cart that your customers can fill and pay with their PayPal account or with a major credit card. Because it's easy to add script to your catalog pages, you can also interface to popular shopping cart software if you choose to.
The heart of the Web Merchant Package is the Directory of Products module, which allows you to display your product line in two very different formats, depending on your personal preference. You can have as many directories as you choose, which means that you could have separate "catalogs" for different types of products. This allows your catalogs to be manageable for you and easy to browse for your customers.
One really handy feature of the Directory of Products is the ability to move or copy items from one directory/catalog to another. Our clients use this feature to include products in a "sale" catalog while maintaining the product's original listing at the same time. Clients also use this feature to set up "Gift Registries," which are really just catalogs with items copied from other catalogs, for specific purposes (baby showers, weddings, etc).
Comparable web merchant websites can cost thousands and thousands of dollars, and the cost of maintaining those sites can be many times more than the initial cost. With StevesIdeas, you avoid these pitfalls by becoming your own webmaster or by having someone in your organization act as webmaster. It's simple, easy, professional and cost effective!
And you don't have to be a rocket scientist to deploy and maintain your StevesIdeas website. All the simplicity of a 'template' system combines with the feature-rich flexibility of our exclusive modular approach allow you to maintain your own website, adding products, changing prices and shipping rates without having to pay a web programmer to do those things for you. That means that you can make those vital changes to your site when you want to, not when a programmer has free time to do it for you.
If you're just beginning your business, you'll especially appreciate StevesIdeas' low cost of ownership. A basic web merchant site can cost as little as $250 to set up, and the subscription (including hosting) is only $349/yr. Compare that to other solutions costing hundreds, even thousands of dollars more!
Here are some web merchants who enjoy the benefits of StevesIdeas websites (click the picture and the live website will open in a new window).