eCommerce Services

ALSO CALLED: eCommerce Hosting, Electronic Commerce Services, and e-Commerce Hosting
DEFINITION: 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  … 
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ECOMMERCE SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): …  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.Here's how it typically works:A company contracts with an e-commerce hosting provider to purchase hosting space on its computer server. This space usually is billed monthly, along with any leasing of computer software for processing online orders. The computer server may be shared with other clients, or in the case of companies expecting a substantial … 
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