What shopping cart software will aplus.net’s design team use to create my online store when designing my website?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

Aplus.Net’s Web Design team uses the MIVA shopping cart to create online stores. Each web design plan includes certain number of products that you can have added to your store by Aplus.Net’s web designers:

Palette: N/A
Sunshine: 16
Rainbow: 60
Reflections:150

There are different options available for the products structure of your online store. Please discuss all available options with your web design project manager.

Important: You need to have one of the Aplus.Net’s eCommerce hosting plans (eCommerce Unix or eCommerce Windows) in order to operate a Miva-based online store.

MERCHANT ACCOUNT:

A Merchant Account is a bank account established with a Merchant Account Provider to enable you to process credit card transactions online. All merchants need a Merchant Account to be able to accept and process credit card transactions. Your bank or Merchant Account Provider will process the credit cards through their credit card processor and deposit the money into your merchant account. There are fees associated with processing credit cards. There are Discount Rates and per Transaction fees. Please contact your Merchant Account Provider for more information on their rates and fees. Aplus.Net is in direct contact with CardService International and Humboldt Merchant Services. Please visit http://hosting.aplus.net/epro_merchjump.html for details.

Once you have your merchant account issued by your Merchant Provider, please submit the account details to your web design project manager by email so that we can setup a payment gateway account for your online store. It is Aplus.Net’s responsibility to initially setup your Miva payment method.

Note: A free payment gateway account is included with each eCommerce Unix / eCommerce Windows hosting plan.