As you already know, consumer-oriented retail ecommerce is already a $1.9 billion industry. It is expected to exceed $3.9 billion by 2004. Is your business ready for this wave of new customers? Thousands of retailers and small business owners are looking for the right tools to do business over the Internet. With the shopping system, you get a full-featured shopping cart program that can hold up to 1,000 products and it offers Real time credit card payment processing.

• Graphical, easy-to-use, web-based administration suite
• Web based order processing
• Highly customizable "look and feel"
• Customizable shipping and handling charges, including a real time UPS shipping calculator
• Automatic tax table, completely customizable
• Product search capabilities
• Secure order processing
• Online documentation
• 1000 product limit, organized within user defined categories and sub-categories
• Customizable product specifications, including:
  • Configurable product fields
  • Taxable/non-taxable option
• Configurable refund time periods
• Product weights can be specified as pounds or kilograms
• Product and Customer based report generation tool
• Real time credit card payment processing using:
  • AuthorizeNet
  • CyberCash
  • Verisign
• Customizable customer emails sent for:
  • Order confirmation
  • Shipment confirmation
  • Refund authorization

Virtual Hosting Solutions offers three distinct flavors of the AlaCart e-commerce shopping cart package: AlaCart Silver, AlaCart Gold and AlaCart Platinum.

• AlaCart Silver (version 2.0) is our standard shopping cart offering. It will host up to 20 items.
• AlaCart Gold is an upgraded cart (version 2.0) that allows for up to 100 items.
• AlaCart Platinum is our ultimate cart package, suitable for use with as many as 1000+ items!