The break down on E Commerce Shopping Carts
The break down on E Commerce Shopping Carts, Cost associated when you choose some carts and the small print that you might not see when you order a cart using other companies.
When our user interface was launched our programmer that wrote all programs in house was not only on the ball but did a lot of investigation when it came time to use the shopping cart feature.
We offer a full E commerce service when it comes time to build your own website. When we say full E Commerce we are speaking of “Every website comes with a cart, weather you choose to use it or not”. For the flat fee of hosting you have the option of using the cart.
We thought we would share some information we gathered when shopping around for carts. Sure we did this to compare ours to theirs, after all they advertise online, so we wanted to see just what they have to offer.When we did this comparison it made it real easy to launch our program. We are in no way saying the other carts are cheap or a rip off or company A is better then company B. We will let you be the judge when it comes time to decide what program is better. After all it is about your business and what works for you, if you do not mind paying more for a cart, paying transaction fees per sale, etc. and the carts works for you! Then we recommend by all costs that you stay with or choose the one that works for you.As I have mentioned above, you be the judge on the findings. Below is what we found.
1. Company Y: offers a full e commerce solution, when we looked into this program for the shopping cart, we found the following charges and costs associated when using Company Y’s Service. Company Y offers three plans. It looks as if they base this plan off of three levels of sales by calling them Starter, Standard and Professional. Each cart is able to hold 50,000 items
The Starter Plan: This plan is charged as follows-If you expect sales of 12K per month. This will cost you $25.97 for the first two months. After the first two months of service you pay $39.95 per month with a 1.5% transaction fee. (see the table below)
The Standard Plan: This plan is charged as follows-If you expect sales of $12K-$80K per month. This will cost you $64.97 for the first two months. After the first two months of service you will pay $99.95 with a 1.0% transaction fee. (See table below)
The Professional Plan: This plan is charged as follows;- If you expect sales of more than $80K per month. This will cost you $194.97 for the first two months. After the first two months of service you will pay $299.95 with a 0.75% transaction fee. (see table below)Company Y’s Cart Table with Transaction Fee Included
| Total Monthly Cost* if you have sales of |
Starter Plan | Standard Plan | Professional Plan |
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*these examples do not include the one time set up fee of $50.00 or any fees that you pay for your merchant account. |
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| $0 | $39.95 | $99.95 | $299.95 |
| $100 | $41.49 | $100.99 | $300.74 |
| $1,000 | $54.99 | $109.99 | $307.49 |
| $5,000 | $114.95 | $149.95 | $337.45 |
| $10,000 | $189.95 | $199.95 | $374.95 |
| $50,000 | $789.95 | $599.95 | $674.95 |
| $100,000 | $1,539.95 | $1,099.95 | $1,049.95 |
Company GO DA: offers a full e commerce solution, when we looked into this program for the shopping cart, we found the following charges and costs associated when using Company GO DA’s Service. Company GO DA. offers three plans. Company GO DA’s three plans does not include hosting service. So when choosing company GO DA’s cart add hosting to the price of the cart per month (company GO’s offers hosting at three stages of hosting Stage
1 $4.99 a month you get 5 pages.
Stage 2 $8.99 a month you get 10 pages.
Stage 3 $12.99 a month you get unlimited pages (but they have a discloser as follows).
2Performance may begin to slow at varying numbers of pages depending on potential physical and practical constraints, including (but not limited to): system architecture, system capacity, system load, end-user Internet connectivity and end-user computer configurations.“Unlimited Pages” does not apply to Premium versions prior to 3.0. These earlier versions have a 20-page limitation and are also limited to the Disk Space and Bandwidth allocated at the time of purchase.If you are unsure what version you own, set up/launch your site from My Account. Version 2.7 users will find their version number above ‘Current Page’ near the top/left side of the page. Version 3.0 and higher users will find this information directly below.
If you forgot we said we would read the small print (well above is the small print!!).
Now onto Company GO’s shopping cart price.
-Plan Economy Edition is charged at $8.99 a month (plus hosting of $4.99, $8.99 or $12.99 per month) this plan allows you to list 20 items only.
-Plan Deluxe Edition is charged at $29.99 a month (plus hosting o f$4.99, $8.99 or $12.99 per month) this plan allows you to list 100 items only.
-Plan Premium Edition is charged at $49.99 a month (plus hosting of $4.99, $8.99 or $12.99 per month) this plan allows you to list a unlimited number of items.
When we called to ask about the unlimited number of items we were told that they needed to transfer us to business support as we would need some extra bandwidth usage. So since I was told I will need some extra bandwidth (we are talking thousands of dollars per month) and we all know I would like to sale things online and would not like to be limited I will use the premium edition as a example for a break down on price.
I will use this example on what we have to offer should I choose to sale 2500 items (that really is a lot of items). I will pay $12.99 a month for hosting plus the $49.99 for the cart (after all I would like to sale 2500 items) for a grand total of $62.98 per month.
So with that being said with the above examples. I invite you to contact us about our shopping carts ($20.00 a month that holds 2500 items) we take NO percentage of sales and hide no fees. You be the judge…
Len Cavanaugh
Owner
Tahoe Web Service
1-877-720-3012
