Sent: 04 October 2003 09:54

Subject: easisites newsletter#6 October 2003

**New** Selling from your easisite

We have now set up the capability for you to take orders via your web site.  People can pay online and you send or reserve whatever goods or services they order.
 
Here's one we did recently for Susie Govett

www.floral-aura.co.uk

You'll see a page dedicated to mail order.  

Try it out.  By all means click the shopping buttons.  If you don't go further and put in a credit card number nothing you do gets traced or recorded.  (Though I'm sure Susie would love it if you bought some of her products!)
 
There are lots of possibilities.  

If would like to add this facility to your easisites web site, you  can either do it yourself (see the outline below) - or, if it all seems too daunting, we can do it for you. 

Our charge for building a payment page into your web site is a mere £50, plus £5 per item to be sold.  

So if you have ten items you want to sell online, that means we'll charge £100 to set everything up for you.  (That's £100 compared to the £2K or £3K you might be quoted elsewhere!)

If you would like us to add this facility for you, get back to me and we'll get to work on it. 

Regards,

Glyn Debnam
Ekos Consulting Limited
01474 532885
www.kent-esites.co.uk
www.easisites.co.uk
www.ekos-consulting.co.uk


Outline of what's required to sell from your easisite:
 
a) You join PayPal as a merchant.  This is free and takes 10 minutes on the web.  Go to www.paypal.com.  That gives you an account with them.
b) You follow the PayPal instructions to code the selling buttons
c) You copy/paste that button code into your easisite
d) You set up rules for VAT and postage costs at the PayPal web site.
e) You get a friend to test it by buying something online
 
After every purchase PayPal email you with the order details so you can pack and mail the items.
 
PayPal hold the money for 30 days (long enough for the customer to complain if you fail to deliver).  After the 30 days you can have the money transferred into your bank.  Each sale costs 20pence plus 4.5% so add a bit to your prices if you want to cover that.

PS	Copies of previous newsletters are now posted on our information site www.easi-info.co.uk, 8a Updates