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  … 
Definition continues below.

ECOMMERCE SERVICES DEFINITION (continued): …  needed to accept, process, and confirm sales orders. E-commerce hosting usually includes providing templates 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 … 
eCommerce Services definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary