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Ecommerce and Linux Cloud Case Study
Posted in Company News,Web development
This fall the Adhost Development team launched an ecommerce Web site for the new Street King energy shots. These great tasting drinks are promoted by 50 Cent and provide a meal for a child need. In record time our team developed their online shopping cart which supports B2B and B2C product lines, custom shipping, custom pricing and order integration with their fulfillment center.
The Street King ecommerce site launched on the Adhost Linux Cloud Servers, which offer scalability of storage space, processing power and memory for development and hosting of LAMP-stack based technologies. Check out the ecommerce case study and order some Street King energy shots today!
permalink | digg this | technoratiPCI Compliant Ecommerce Case Study
Posted in Company News,Web development
Earlier this year Adhost partnered with FrontStream Payments to provide PCI compliant credit card processing to our e-commerce clients. We now have a number of ecommerce clients using the solution and we’ve posted a case study on how Mountain Top Golf Cars integrated their online shopping cart with FrontStream. They are saving money in the following ways:
• Web development savings
• Vulnerability scan savings
• Credit card processing savings
Read the full PCI case study or contact Adhost Sales at 1-888-234-6781 to see how you can start saving and increase your PCI compliance at the same time.
permalink | digg this | technoratiPCI Compliant Ecommerce Solution
Posted in Company News,Web development
Adhost has partnered with FrontStream Payments to provide PCI compliant credit card processing as a service to our e-commerce development and hosting clients. FrontStream offers a secure e-commerce gateway allowing an online transaction to occur on the FrontStream PCI compliant servers rather than on an Adhost or client server.
Our Web development team can assist with integrating the secure gateway to your Web shopping cart. In addition FrontStream offers competitive processing rates, and several Adhost clients have already saved money by switching to FrontStream from their current credit card processor.
Learn more about how the solution works and view pricing on our PCI Compliant Ecommerce page or contact Adhost Sales at 1-888-234-6781 or sales@adhost.com.
permalink | digg this | technoratiPCI Compliance and Ecommerce Sites
Posted in Security,Web developmentOnline and other merchants are now required to comply with Visa / Mastercard Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards [PCI-DSS]. You can learn more about that online at the Visa and Mastercard sites or a host of other sites as well. Just type ‘PCI DSS compliance’ into Google.
Wikipedia has a useful overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard
and we have a brief description on our site as well: PCI Compliancy.
For online businesses that need to 1) adjust final order amounts after the original transaction or 2) perform subsequent charges or credits against the original card, storage of the card locally is no longer a realistic option without substantial outlays for hardware, software and programming [servers, firewalls, anti-virus programs and encryption coding].
This can be mitigated by employing a Credit Card Gateway that supports what is frequently called a ‘Tokenization’ solution that stores the credit card for you on their PCI compliant servers and allows you to perform later transactions against the stored card by way of a ‘token’ provided at the time of the original transaction.
We have researched several options for our ecommerce clients. Contact your sales representative for more information at 206-404-9000 or 1-888-234-6781.
permalink | digg this | technoratiIs Your Web Site Frozen in Time, Forgotten or Just Plain Funky?
Posted in Web developmentWeb sites are often out of sight and out of mind – but busy keeping customers away because they’re unattractive, unclear, unusable, unfriendly – just pick your ‘un’ word. We’ve had the pleasure of hurting our eyes on many such sites over the years.
Recently, we were contacted by a firm with a site no one at the company had looked at – literally – for months. The marketing person with responsibilities for maintaining the site had actually been gone for some time and evidently hadn’t mentioned the site to their replacement. Fortunately, their old school e-commerce shopping cart was still taking occasional orders that went straight to the warehouse for fulfillment. Finally, someone realized these orders were coming from a web site and took a look at it.
After finding their shades and clicking around the glaringly out-of-date site, they started shopping around for some Seattle web development help and found Adhost. Our initial call revealed that they had TWO sites. A brochure web site – that no one knew how to manage or update (natch) - was wrapped around a separate and very creaky e-commerce cart. It was a no-brainer to recommend an updated cart with Content Management Features that would allow them to manage all their content – brochure and product – from one consolidated web-based administration area. We got ‘em up and running in about 3 and half weeks. They aren’t challenging Amazon.com just yet, but the orders are coming in and now they don’t need shades to look at the sites.
Looking at the bill was not a problem either. We did this for less than the guesstimate they had generated internally. So, the lesson? I don’t know. The only things I can swear to are that sky is blue, sea is green and clam shells make great ash trays. However, I’m pretty sure that when it comes to ROI, a well-designed and promoted Web site can get your message out for much less than other media channels. And on the Amazon thing, well, we made some SEO and PPC recommendations to them and you never know…
Perhaps, it’s time to dust off your site and invest in a fresh Web design, an e-commerce solution, or a content management system. If so, give us a jingle. We’d be happy to put on our shades and look at your site. Contact the Adhost sales team at 1-888-234-6781 to discuss your options or visit the Adhost Development site.
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