For the starter plan you would pay $39.95/month. Then the payment processing rates would be 1.5% merchant discount rate. The starter plan requires a $50 setup fee. So if you have a site that sells camping gear for instance - you could get setup with a shopping cart, domain, hosting, and payment processing!
This is a pretty good option for most beginners in the ecommerce arena. There are hundreds of features on this plan and we'll highlight a few:
Payment Processing with Yahoo Merchant Services: Accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX, and Paypal payments. This includes debit cards. You can also use your own merchant account with the Yahoo Shopping Cart Software if you already have one. You might pay more on the discount rate, but it might be easier to just use the Yahoo Payment Gateway.
Yahoo Web Hosting: The Yahoo Merchant Services plan includes a web hosting plan - which offers unlimited space and unlimited traffic!
Yahoo Domain Name: The Yahoo Merchant Services also gives you a free domain name with the shopping cart software. You can compare Yahoo vs. GoDaddy here.
You can also manage up to 50,000 products in your catalog - so this plan is large enough for even the largest businesses! There are so many features that we can't even mention them all - other notables include: toll free support, templates, customizable store fronts, customize your checkout pages, import existing data, and more!!!
Yahoo Merchant Services also includes advertising credits for Yahoo Search Marketing, Google Adwords, and Shopping.com.
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