If you want to setup Shop, and start selling your products/services online, you are going to need a Merchant Account and a way to process the orders, and shopping carts are one of the best ways to process orders on your site. Most good shopping carts will also allow you to interface will your Merchant Account Providers site, to process credit cards in real-time. |
| Merchant Accounts - Accepting Credit Cards |
 | Cardservice International: Cardservice International combines innovative technologies and superior customer service as the nation's top provider of noncash transaction technology for traditional and Internet businesses. Cardservice provides real-time, secure credit card transactions to both brick-and-mortar and Internet merchants. |
 | 1stcommerce.net: 1st Commerce Corporation provides Merchant Accounts to merchants in association with the Web's Leading Commerce Server Providers. Through our partners, Merchants are able to establish a credit card processing account and gain access to all of the resources necessary to build a successful business on the World Wide Web. |
 | Authorize.Net: Authorize.Net offers secure, scalable solutions that enable merchants to process unlimited transactions in more than 150 currencies, from anywhere in the world. Our solutions support any business model -- Internet, broadband, wireless, call center and retail -- and come with free technical support.: |
 | Verisign PayFlow: PayflowSM Pro is the payment solution for you, the merchant, if you require a seamless payment processing solution with peak performance and complete customizability. Payflow Pro enables payment processing through the Payflow Pro client software. This software is a small SSL TCP/IP enabled messaging agent that controls communications between your application and the Payflow Platform. |
| Shopping Cart Software - Services |
 | The CGI Resource Index, Perl Shopping Carts |
 | Aspin.com, ASP Shopping Carts |
 | eMartCart: PayPal is the easiest and least expensive way for you to accept credit cards on the Web. If you have a PayPal Business or Premier account, you can use eMartCart tm to create catalog Web pages showing your items for sale, then install these catalog pages on your own Web site. For each item, an "order" button will be linked to the shopping cart system. You do not need any interactive software on your site to use eMartCart or PayPal. Buyers can browse your site, adding or removing items from their carts, then check out through PayPal's Secure Server and pay with a credit card. The funds will be deposited directly into your bank account. |
 | FreeMerchant.com: Your online Web Store, fast, easy and complete. |
| Merchant Account Alternatives |
 | PayPal is the easiest and least expensive way for you to accept credit cards on the Web. |
 | Beseen: get a BuyIt! button for your site, and turn your site into an e-commerce shopping site. |
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