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Ecommerce Features and Benefits

Plan Features


  • Only available in Standard and Professional plans

Product Catalog

  • Manage up to 50,000 products for sale
  • Easily add products to your store with a step-by-step wizard
  • Upload an existing product database
  • Upload a spreadsheet with product details
  • Track customized product attributes
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Store Design

  • Design a professional-looking site with our easy-to-use wizard
  • Support for third-party tools
  • Professional designer and developer network to help build your store*
  • Search engine-friendly pages
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Customer Service

  • 24-7 toll-free phone support
  • 24-7 email support
  • Extensive online help
  • Getting Started guides
  • Account Manager (if qualified)****
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Shopping Cart and Checkout

  • Single or multi-page checkout
  • Customizable page layout
  • Set up custom fields for order info
  • Automatically calculate tax and shipping
  • Progress indicator to orient customers
  • Gift wrapping options
  • Support for downloadable products
  • Shopping cart contents saved for up to 2 weeks
  • Support for CSS for a custom design
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Product Promotion

  • Up-sell and cross-sell during checkout
  • Coupons
  • Gift Certificates
  • Site search feature
  • Discount pricing
  • Volume pricing
  • Incremental feature pricing
  • Trackable links for affiliates
  • Product catalog XML can be read by shopping directories
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Marketing

  • Search engine-friendly pages
  • Automatic submission to Yahoo!
  • Automatic submission to Google
  • $100 credit with Yahoo! Search Marketing**
  • Free Yahoo! Local listing
  • $50 credit for Google AdWords
  • 20% off Yahoo! Shopping default minimum bids in all categories
  • Free trial on Shopping.com-$50 value
  • $50 free traffic from Shopzilla
  • 1 month trial with Campaigner by Got (email marketing)
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Order Processing

  • Easy interface to process orders
  • View new orders by email or online
  • Automatically email customers to announce order status changes
  • Print invoices and shipping labels
  • Real-time integration with other management, accounting, and inventory applications
  • Display inventory availability to customers
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Payment Processing

  • Accept credit, debit, and PayPal payments online
  • Payment processing partnerships:
  • First Data™
  • PayPal
  • Use an existing merchant account if compatible with FDMS
  • No additional fees to use our payment gateway
  • Credit card verification and validation tools
  • Offline credit card processing
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Inventory Management

  • Receive inventory alerts when quantities are low
  • Manage inventory by color, size, and other variables
  • Integrate with an existing inventory system
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Shipping and Taxes

  • Use major carriers like UPS, FedEx, and USPS
  • Set shipping rates by weight, price, location, and more
  • Offer free shipping
  • Tax rates by country, state, and zip
  • Ship orders to international locations
  • UPS Online Tools
  • UPS WorldShip
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Application Integration

  • Export transaction information to QuickBooks
  • OrderMotion
  • UPS Online Tools
  • First Data
  • Stone Edge Order Manager
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Reports and Statistics

  • Reports and graphs that show:
  • Sales
  • Page views
  • Referrals
  • Yahoo! Web Analytics real-time reporting
  • Top traffic and sales sources
  • Shopping cart drop-off analysis
  • Bounce rate and exit-page analysis
  • Keyword conversion rates
  • Top-selling products
  • Customizable reports and segmentation
  • And more
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Email

  • 1,000 email addresses
  • Unlimited email storage.
  • POP and SMTP support
  • SpamGuard Plus protection
  • Norton AntiVirus screening

Web Hosting

  • Unlimited disk space
  • Unlimited data transfer More Details
  • Free domain name
  • Multi-user FTP

Reliability

  • Consistent 99.9% uptime***
  • Same infrastructure as the rest of the Yahoo! network
  • Redundant links to Internet backbone for faster access
  • Local and remote site backup
  • Akamai caching so product images load faster
  • Free BSD(Unix) operating system
  • Apache servers
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Security

  • Secure Socket Layer (SSL) with 128 bit encryption to shield transactions
  • Configurable risk tools to help flag fraudulent orders
  • IP blocking to help keep out suspect customers
  • Password protection for your site
  • Access privileges for site administration
  • Extensive data center security
  • CISP compliant
  • Domain name locking*****
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Thinking of Switching?

Get step-by-step details on how to switch painlessly to Yahoo! Merchant Solutions.

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Search For a Domain

Already have a domain name?

  • * Available for an additional price
  • ** Offer open to new U.S. Sponsored Search advertisers only. (A new advertiser is one who has not advertised with Yahoo! Search Marketing for the past 13 months.) Each account requires a nonrefundable $30 initial deposit. Advertisers signing up for Self Serve will receive a $100 credit into the account. Initial credits are nonrefundable and will be applied to click-charges. There is a minimum bid requirement of $0.10 per click-through. Limit one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Sellers of certain legally restricted products may require third-party certification at extra cost. Search listings subject to editorial review. Offer may not be combined with any other offers or discounts, separated, redeemed for cash, or transferred. Other terms and conditions may apply; see Advertiser Terms and Conditions when you sign up.
  • *** Based on internal monitoring; does not include downtime for scheduled maintenance.
  • **** Qualified merchants gain access to a premium level of support through an account manager who can provide you with best practices for building and running your online store. Not available to all customers. Customers with over $500,000 in annual online sales with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions can qualify. Qualification is subject to the discretion of Yahoo! Merchant Solutions
  • ***** Available only for new domain registrations.