A logical step for most businesses or non-profit organizations that have a presence on the internet is to allow customers the ability to purchase products or donate directly through the website. The convenience of e-commerce not only saves customer's time, but it can also save your organization a great deal of labor and cut down on credit card processing fees.

Let us help you to increase sales by offering secure payment options. When you accept secured payments online, it will give your customers the confidence to order without hesitation

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How Does E-Commerce Work?

Their are a couple of items that your website will need before a customer will be able to purchase items online. They are a:

• Merchant Account
• Credit Card Processor (Gateway)
• Shopping Cart

When a customer clicks on the order or donate button, there are hidden codes within the web page that pass the order on to a secure and safe shopping cart.  The cart stores the product's coding and displays the item. It will then ask for the appropriate billing, shipping, and personal information (no credit card data is requested yet).

After the customer has filled out all of the required data in the cart, they select a payment option and are forwarded to the credit card processor. This processor allows for a variety of credit card and denomination options.

Following the payment process, money is posted to your merchant account. This is an account set up for all funds that are captured by credit card for your business.

Note: An optional tool called "Virtual Terminal" will also allow you to post payments manually online with telephone and mail orders.

Church and Non-Profit Donations

Hard-coded (Static) Donation Button

Installation/Setup: $149.00

We recommend utilizing the PayPal or Google Shopping Cart to accept online donations due to its popularity among donors, no monthly cost, and low fees.  NOTE: As with any e-commerce sale, Cornerstone Websites does not receive any fees or commissions from donations.

NOTE: Google Checkout Donations are currently offering FREE processing.

Businesses Selling Products

Dynamic Website - Database Driven

Program Installation on the Server: $249.00
Template Design (optional): Call for quote

All of our database driven websites are set up utilizing the popular Zen Cart E-Commerce software. This program is easily administered through an online panel. This panel allows the owner to edit, add, remove, or turn off products, change shipping and paymant options, and keep track of customer ordering trends. We will design a Zen Cart template to be implemented in your online store.

Database-driven, Zen Cart websites can currently be set up using PayPal Payments Standard, PayPal Payments Pro, Google Checkout or Authorize.net.

View sample FREE Zen-Cart designs here >

Static Website - Hard Coded

Cart Setup "Standard Price": $149.00 Installation/Setup + Product Coding
Cart Setup "Custom Price": $249.00 Installation/Setup + Product Coding

Hard coded websites will utilize the Mals E-Commerce shopping cart system in association with Authorize.net, PayPal Payments Standard/Pro, or Google Shopping Cart.  This type of website is recommended for a smaller store (less than twenty products) whose products do not change often.  Updates for these items are easily coded by our Cornerstone Support team.

Cart installation is considerably easier during the initial setup of the website, however, it can be installed after your site is built. If the products are being coding during site build, the price is $2.99 per item. Products that are coded after the site is online cost $4.99 each.

Standard Cart
There are no recurring costs associated with this type of system. The standard cart is ideal if you do not mind having customers pay on the template based PayPal Standard processor. The maximum number of orders allowed through the Mals E-commerce cart each month is 1000.

Custom Cart
Because of the upgrade to PayPal Payments Pro and the Mals E-Commerce Premium account there are regular monthly fees of approximately $38.00/month paid directly to these companies (varies based on monthly or annual payment). This cart provides a seamless payment process. Customers will never leave your website and PayPal will be operating in the background of your site. In addition, the number of orders allowed on your site per month is unlimited.

Price: PayPal Standard Customers - $30.00/month
Price: PayPal Pro Customers - FREE

Private SSL Certificate (*already included with Static Hard-Coded website designs)

Installation: $49.99 Installation
Recurring Annual Fee: $49.99

If you have a database-driven e-commerce website you will require an SSL certificate. Each website that is used for gathering and transmitting customer's information must use an SSL certificate to guarantee the safety of this information. Internet customers expect any personal information they provide via the Internet to remain confidential and integral. The SSL certificate is the only way to secure your online transactions and to show your customers that you really value the confidentiality of their data.

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IP Address

Please note that a dedicated IP address is also required for a merchant account. This will be included in all Diamond hosting plans or may be added on to the Marble hosting plan for a low monthly fee.