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| 1-month price | $29.96/mo.1 For 1st year ($39.95/mo. after) |
$74.96/mo.1 For 1st 3 mos. ($99.95/mo. after) |
$224.96/mo.1 For 1st 3 mos. ($299.95/mo. after) |
| 12-month price | $25.46/mo.1 For 1st year ($33.95/mo. after) |
$63.71/mo.1 For 1st 3 mos. ($84.95/mo. after) |
$191.21/mo.1 For 1st 3 mos. ($254.95/mo. after) |
| One-time setup fee | No setup fee (save $50.00) | No setup fee (save $50.00) | No setup fee (save $50.00) |
| Transaction fee | 1.5% | 1.0% | .75% |
| Recommended plan by expected monthly sales | Less than $12K/mo. | $12K to $80K/mo. | More than $80K/mo. |
| Online Store Design | |||
| Site design wizard to guide you through setup |  |
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| Wizard and bulk-transfer options for uploading product information | |
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| Catalog tool to manage product details | |
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| Inventory-management features and status alerts | |
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| Maximum number of products you can sell | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| Real-time integration with external inventory-management systems | |
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| Product catalog feed for popular shopping directories | |
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| Merchandising and Promotions | |||
| Upsell and cross-sell capabilities | |
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| Gift certificates | |
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| Single- and multiple-use coupons | |
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| Ability to offer free shipping | |
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| Percentage, dollar amount, and volume discounting | |
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| Trackable links for affiliate programs | |
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| Site search with filtering | |
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| Easy reorder from order history | |
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| Shopping Cart and Checkout | |||
| Customizable checkout to match your site | |
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| A single- or multiple-page checkout process | |
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| Tax-setup wizard | |
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| Automatic calculation of tax and purchase totals | |
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| Gift wrapping and message options | |
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| Ability to sell downloadable products | |
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| Registered or guest checkout options | |
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| Streamlined checkout for registered users | |
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| Saved payment information for registered users | |
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| Payment Processing | |||
| Ability to accept credit cards, checks, POs, CODs, and money orders | |
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| Integration with new or existing merchant accounts | |
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| Integration with PayPal checkout | |
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| Secure payment gateway services * | |
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| Credit card verification tools, including CVV2 support | |
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| PCI and CISP compliance | |
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| APIs to allow for back-office integration with existing systems | |
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| Tools to process orders, returns, exchanges, refunds, and voids | |
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| Automated customer-confirmation and order-status emails | |
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| Real-time order exports to outside accounting and order-management systems | |
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| Printable packing slips and shipping labels | |
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| Ability to use carriers like UPS, FedEx, and USPS | |
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| Customizable shipping rates | |
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| Integrated UPS functionality | |
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| UPS WorldShip® integration | |
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| Marketing | |||
| Search engine optimization tools | |
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| Submission of your site to Yahoo! Search, Google, and Bing | |
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| Yahoo! Local Search basic listing | |
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| Microsoft Advertising adCenter credit | $75 | $75 | $75 |
| Yahoo! Shopping bid credit | 20% off default minimum bids | 20% off default minimum bids | 20% off default minimum bids |
| Discount on Campaigner® email-marketing tools | $10/month; 1st month free | $10/month; 1st month free | $10/month; 1st month free |
| Social Media Sharing on Twitter and Facebook | |
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| Store grand-opening email | |
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| Reporting | |||
| Page view, visit, referrer, and navigation-path tracking | |
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| Reports on sales activity | |
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| Advanced, real-time reporting via Yahoo! Web Analytics | |
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| Security and Reliability | |||
| 99.9% uptime reliability** | |
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| Redundant, secure data centers | |
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| SSL support with 256k encryption | |
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| Content distribution and caching for better site performance | |
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| IP blocking | |
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| Email addresses | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Disk space | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Data transfer | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Email storage | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
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| 24-hour phone support | |
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| Comprehensive online help center | |
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* Merchant account required.
** Based on internal monitoring. Does not include planned downtime for scheduled maintenance.
Merchant Solutions Billing Details
- What is the setup fee?
- A processing fee that covers setting up your account in the Yahoo! Small Business system.
- What is the transaction fee?
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A fee to maintain the infrastructure that supports your ecommerce services and transaction processing. This fee is based on the final price of the product and is not calculated on shipping and taxes.
For comparison, some large ecommerce companies spend roughly 5% to 8% of their sales to maintain their ecommerce infrastructure. We charge just 0.75% to 1.5% for access to similar ecommerce infrastructure and services of a similar level of quality.
- How much should I expect to pay each month?
- Your total cost per month will include your plan's monthly fee and transaction fees based on your total monthly sales. Enter your monthly sales to see your estimated cost per month.
- Your monthly sales:
- Estimated monthly cost:
- Merchant
- Starter
- Merchant
- Standard
- Merchant
- Professional
These estimated costs exclude the one-time setup fee of $50 and fees paid directly to your merchant account provider or PayPal for transaction processing. They also do not include any special discounts that may be available at the time of purchase. There is no gateway fee for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions customers.
See all featuresUnlimited Disk space, Data transfer, and Email storage
- What do "unlimited disk space, data transfer, and email storage" mean?
- It's pretty straightforward: Customers who use Yahoo! Web Hosting can obtain unlimited disk space, data transfer, and email storage if they use their services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs.
- What is appropriate usage?
Yahoo! Web Hosting is designed to serve the web hosting needs of small, independently owned and operated businesses in the United States. It is not appropriate to use our services to support large enterprises or internationally based businesses with a sustained demand that places undue burden on our systems or negatively impacts use by small, independently owned and operated businesses.
Yahoo! Web Hosting is a shared web hosting service, which means that a number of customers' web sites and other email or storage services are hosted from the same server. Yahoo! uses abuse controls to help ensure that use of our services does not adversely affect the performance of our system or other customers' sites. It is not appropriate to use an account primarily as an online storage space or for archiving electronic files.
- Disk space
- If you use your services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs, your site can grow as large as necessary to meet your small business needs, but to ensure a great experience for all, we will place some constraints on how fast you can grow. The vast majority of our customers' sites grow at rates well within our rules, but our abuse controls may cause a brief delay while we evaluate if expansion is appropriate.
- Data transfer
In most cases, if you use our services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs, visitors to your web site will be able to download and view as much content from your site as they like. However, in certain circumstances, our server processing power, server memory, or abuse controls could limit downloads from your site.
You can also upload as much as content as you like each month, subject only to the Terms of Service and the rules that control how fast your site can grow (see above).
- Email storage
You do not have to worry about hitting a storage limit if you use our services consistently with the Terms of Service and these paragraphs.
Yahoo! will increase your space along with your appropriate small business needs, but our abuse controls may impact the rate of growth or your folder size, and there may be a short delay while we assess your usage. In some cases, creating additional folders or subfolders will help ensure that the system works well for everyone.