1. Sydney Websites designs your website with our shopping system installed, the website is secured by a 128/256 bit encryption making your website safe for both yourself and your customers. You can easily add products on your website and add how much inventory is available and even create coupons to entice customers.
2. When a customer goes onto your website they can add products to the cart. When the customer checks out they will be asked for their postcode, and once entered our shopping system will connect to Australia Post or FedEx and get live shipping pricing and this will be added on the total. The customer can then check out using a Paypal, a credit card or even by direct bank transfer.
3. When paying by Paypal or by credit card to verify the customers information a payment gateway is used. This signal is passed onto the website allowing the transaction to go ahead./li>
4. The payment gateway will then withdraw the designated amount from the customers account and deposit the amount into your bank account.
5. You will then receive a copy of the receipt and you can then send the product to the customer.

Included Features with all our Online Shops:

Compatibility with Major Australian Banks and International Banks (US and Europe)
At Sydney Websites when it comes to picking a payment gateway we have no contracts, we work with you to work out the best value for money based on your expected sales volumes and your bank. If you have a small budget it’s often best to use Paypal as a payment gateway as it is free and most people already have an account!

Shipping Flexibility
Not only can you ship your products around Australia, you can send your products around the world! The Sydney Websites Shipping System allows you to pick and choose the companies you want to ship. The customer can then decide their preferred shipping method whether it is standard or priority service. When you add products to your website you will be asked for their weight and this information will be used to work out the shipping cost using live rates from Australia Post, USPS, UPS or FedEx.

Digital Products
For any online companies we also offer the ability to sell digital files to customers. You can nominate how many times you will allow the customer to download the designated file. If your sales volumes are high or your files are large we can use the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) to store your files so they don’t load your website server up.

Subscriptions
For those who have membership websites we also offer pay by the month subscriptions using Paypal and Spreedly. We can setup for you members only sections and login pages for your website to make the navigation experience/interface easy for your customers. There is an account section of your shop where you can monitor the access levels of certain users and add additional notes for the customer so you can follow them up.

Newsletter Integration
We can even plugin to MailChimp so upon checking out customers have the option of subscribing to your email newsletter.

Unlimited Products
Yes we said it, unlimited products! Why should we put restrictions on you for using your website hosting you have already paid for!

Complex Products
For businesses that sell a couple of products but with many different options we have a platform for you as well. We can turn your product page, let’s say for a bicycle shop, into a full on ordering form so you can get your customers preferences on colour, size and shape etc. For fashion companies where you just have one variable which might be let’s say shoe size, there are fast insert tools available.

Coupons and Discounts
The promotion part of our shopping system is highly sophisticated. You can offer customers discounts/coupons by a set money amount or by a percentage of the total. You can nominate whether this discount applies to just the product, or the shipping or both. You can even set minimum spend amounts before a discount can be applied, and expiry dates and maximum amount of times a discount may be offered.

Live Inventory Management
The live inventory management system allows you to add inventory levels to each product. Once a successful transaction is processed the inventory levels get automatically reduced.

Terms and Conditions
If your product requires the consent of terms and conditions we can provide this as well. This can be particularly handy for warranty/returns information or enforcing copyright or user licence agreements.

Security
All our websites are built incredibly secure and if you have our enhanced security package your website will include: weekly backups of your site content, locking down of root folder and alternative root directories, nameless php, chmod of core files, protection and backup of server settings, brute force protection, SQL injection protection, .htaccess protection. But shopping carts require SSL encryption so credit card information can be sent securely from one web server to the next, so that’s why all our shopping carts have 128/256 bit encryption with $10 000 AU warranty with a dedicated IP address. For an extra $90 a year we can upgrade your warranty to $250 000AU.

Reporting
As if you needed anymore features, of course we offer a comprehensive reporting system where you can see quantity sold and sales value on a per product basis which is displayed on a monthly timeline. You can also see sales totals on a daily basis and export all this information into a CSV file so you can have more fun with the data in Excel.