"Cheques in the post?"...

A well designed e-commerce website enables your customers to find the products they are looking for easily. When the products are displayed, the infomation provided must be relevant and helpful in making a purchase decision.

The website owner must be able to maintain the online stock, adding and changing products as often as required.

A bespoke e-commerce website solution will be designed around your business needs, rather than forcing your business into a pre-defined template.

Online payments are made by your customers using either a debit or credit card. At NSD Web we always use a third party secure gateway for the actual transaction, no credit card details are ever stored in your own database, and as the merchant you never even see the customer's card details. It's important that your customers feel confident that your website is secure when making the purchase, otherwise they will simply buy elsewhere.

In order to process an online credit card payment you will need a payment gateway. The payment gateway acts as an intermediary between your website through which customers make their purchases, and all the financial networks, including the customer's card issuer and your Internet Merchant Account. At the point of checkout, the payment gateway must receive information from your shopping system, into which your customer has placed their selected goods.

As the retailer, you also need to consider a distance selling returns policy for your customers, it's not enough just to supply the goods!