Shopping Carts Overview

Be Blessed Web Services LLC has three outstanding shopping cart solutions for your business, whether it's a "Mom and Pop" operation or a high-end retail e-store:
Alacart Silver, Gold and Platinum, shopping cart systems.

Alacart: Comes in three versions with three levels of sophistication and power. It has an easy to use web interface for adding products and managing shipping details, etc. The following accounts come with the following versions of Alacart.

- Alacart Silver is included with the Professional Plan ($25 month)
- Alacart Gold is included with the Developer Plan ($40 month)
- Alacart Platinum included with the Commerce Plan ($60 month)

Note: Alacart shopping carts currently only support Verisign for online payment gateway/processing.

For more details see our Alacart Shopping Carts Page
Merchant Accounts:
Merchant accounts allow/authorize you to take credit cards. You can find an enormous number of companies online that will set you up with a merchant account, prices vary. Our advice for the last couple of years... when anyone asks us about merchant accounts or credit card authorizers is, "Go to your bank first." You have an established relationship with your bank, your bank wants your continued business, and your bank can even have better prices versus online. Seems hard to believe but not everything is cheaper online, we've seen many of the heavy up front fees lowered by working with a bank. Not only can they get you connected with the merchant account provider but they often have their own relationship with an online processor like Verisign or Authorize.net, and once again they may be able get you a better deal than going directly to the companies web site.

Dealing directly with a bank for a merchant account is not for everyone, whether for a lack of business history or even credit history, so we've put together some other merchant account solutions, see
Alternative Payment Solutions

NOTE: If you already have a merchant account for your existing business, you should be aware of the following. Depending on the type of merchant account you have, Internet transactions may not be acceptable. Internet transactions are considered "card-not-present" and you may need to obtain a merchant account specifically designed for such transactions. Check with your merchant provider.
Online Card Authorizers
Credit card information is sent over the Internet (securely) to your online payment processor. Your online payment processor in turn contacts the cards' issuing bank over the private financial network. Your online payment processor returns approved/declined notice to your customer who is still at your online store. Payment Processors:

Note: Alacart shopping carts currently only support Verisign for online payment gateway/processing.

There are only a few choices we'd recommend when it comes to real-time payment processors:

http://verisign.com
http://www.authorizenet.com
Securing Your Transactions / Free< SSL
With a number of other shopping cart systems you need to buy a secure certificate to enable critical transactions to occur within a secure environment. The Alacart set-up allows you to use our secure certificates instead, at no charge, saving you up to $500 (from buying your own certificate) AND saving you from the many headaches and delays associated with buying and installing a certificate yourself.
With these 4 things in place: a Gold or Platinum Shopping Cart, a Merchant Account, an Online Card Processor, and our free secure connection via SSL you will have all the tools you need to sell your products and services online in real time, and have monies due deposited directly into your bank account.

Note: ALL hosting accounts come with Free SSL access.
More information on related ecommerce topics such as:
Get a merchant account online.
Other ways to process payments and receive funds
Payment Processing Solutions for Resellers

- Alternative Payment Solutions

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