• A secure server to process customer data
• An electronic "shopping cart" to collect information about a customer's order
• A way to get securely transmit the order and credit card information from the Web server to the merchant.
• A secure certificate to house secure pages under your own domain name
  
  

We offer secure servers, secure certificates and shopping cart programs you can use to create your product pages and process credit card data. You'll also need either a merchant credit card service or PayPal account to accept online orders. Customers like as much security as possible, but each layer of security includes a cost to the merchant (you). We'll help you customize the plan that's right for you.

These products can be combined with the FTP, Basic, Advanced or Webmaster accounts to create a secure online store for your site.

Americart Shopping Cart
Free setup, $20 a month

The AmeriCart shopping cart service allows you to create catalog pages using special HTML tags for items and shopping cart functions. When a shopper clicks the "checkout" button they are sent to Americart's secure server to take their credit card and shipping info. Americart then emails the order to you with partial credit card info, and allows you to login to their secure server to retrieve the rest of the credit card info to fill the order. Many users like this service because it's affordable, avoids the use of complex CGI programs, and can handle credit card data securely without requiring clients to purchase additional products to encrypt e-mailed credit card info. It also doesn't require you to have an SSL server, since orders are encrypted with AmeriCart's server. FYI, AmeriCart doesn't have access to the credit card data - part of each number is stored on their servers, the remainder is emailed to you. Click here to learn more about Americart.

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SSL Secure Server
$30 setup, $15 a month

SSL, which stands for Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol that allows traffic between a user's browser and the Web server to be encrypted, so it cannot be intercepted. An SSL-enabled page uses a URLs that begins with https:, rather than http:.

Our standard SSL offerings allow you to use a URL such as https://commerce.pair.com/yourname/ for your secure area. The non-secure pages continue to operate under www.yourname.com.

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SSL Secure Certificate
From $49 a year

In order to have SSL under your domain, such as https://www.yourname.com/catalog, you must obtain a secure server certificate from a Certificate Authority.

Through our partner Pair Networks, we can offer 128-bit SSL Encryption certificates for as low as $49 a year - a huge discount over Verisign, which charges $349 for the first year and $249 a year thereafter. Contact us for more information and pricing.

FYI, there is no advantage from a security point-of-view in having your own secure certificate over using one of ours. It's simply an issue of what the Web address for the secure pages will be.