Actually, unless you have bad credit, getting a Merchant Account in order to take Mastercard, Visa and American Express is not that difficult. It can, however, be daunting trying to find someone who can offer you a merchant account. Most banks and financial institutions do not offer their small business customers merchant accounts for “mail order” or “on-line” sales because they consider these high risk. You can find many companies offering this service but it is often expensive or complicated to setup. Also, there are unfortunately some “fly by night” operations that only stay in business long enough to take your substantial deposits.

i want to develop, maintain, and grow a thriving online store.is there is any tool which can help me

Miva Merchant is a third-party e-commerce solution that gives access to the tools you need to develop, maintain, and grow a thriving online store.

How Does It Work? and is it trusted

Miva is a trusted e-commerce solution provider, enabling tens of thousands of online businesses across the internet. Miva kit is based on a solid foundation of proven proprietary technology, supported by an established network of e-commerce hosts, solution developers, and store designers.

Miva Merchant requires Miva Empresa for web server XML scripting, e-commerce and database capabilities. Like all third party commercial products, Miva Empresa and Miva Merchant are purchased and installed separately from H-Sphere.

how does miva work:-

1. A user logs into the control panel and activates the Miva resource.
2. H-Sphere finds an available license in the database and allocates it to this user.
3. The cgi-bin and mivadata directories are created inside the user’s site directory, if only they haven’t been created earlier.
4. miva.cgi is copied into the cgi-bin directory.
5. miva.cgi is registered in the config file, in which the mivaroot and mivadata variables are defined. mivaroot is configured to be the same as DocumentRoot for Miva-enabled site. mivadata is defined as the mivadata directory outside this user’s site.
6. Permissions to these directories along with their content are changed.
7. Now the user can activate Miva Merchant. Miva Merchant is created using a web-based form containing the fields required by Miva Merchant, though a user can activate the original Miva Merchant installer by entering his site URL followed by /cgi-bin/mivavm?/Merchant2/setup.mvc or his site URL followed by /Merchant2/setup.mvc.

hi,i am starting a new online business and i want to learn the online sales techniques that will best suit my business and product.what should i do to make my on line business sucessful.

When it comes to getting your e-commerce site started, don’t just dive right into the deep end. Instead, get your feet wet with an advance plan.To make an online business successful ,advance planning is the essential requirement.

hi,what should i do so that i can deal with the transactions effeciently and effectively.should i have to learn some new things for the purpose.

To deal the transactions efficiently you have to roll up your sleeves and get technical with the nitty-gritty of transactions, credit card, integration with fulfillment systems, and customer service. you’ll also need to calculate tax, determine shipping costs, and securely process the customers’ preferred methods of payment.

If your company is willing to spend the big bucks, you can get the word out about your site by using traditional advertising venues, such as billboards, bus ads, direct mail, radio spots, or even television commercials.

You can also create your own high-quality banner ads and pay to have them placed on other websites that cater to your customer base