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It's never been easier to start selling online with 24-7 support.

Build your store on a secure, reliable foundation.

Quick Facts

  • Help ensure your data is backed up with redundant, secure data centers.
  • Help prevent data theft with industry-standard data center security.
  • Get peace of mind that comes with consistent 99.9% uptime reliability.

Advanced Security

Transmit customer information securely with SSL encryption.

We protect your customer information in transit across the Internet with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) using 128-bit encryption, which complies with Visa security requirements and is the highest level of encryption available in commercial web browsers.

Be prepared for emergencies with redundant, secure data centers - the backbone of ecommerce hosting.

  • All your store data is copied to redundant data centers in remote geographic locations to help ensure it is recoverable after a natural disaster or other emergency.
  • Data is archived to tape for an extended period of time for extra protection.

Protect your information with industry-standard data center security

We provide industry-standard physical and electronic security at our data centers to help prevent theft and other intrusions that could jeopardize your data.

Password-protect your store for wholesale or B2B customers.

Set up a single site password to control who can view your site - a great feature for wholesale businesses or those who wish to limit access to specific customers.

Control employee access to your store information and financial records.

Control which parts of your store management system your employees can access to protect sensitive information such as sales revenue or customer data.

Site Reliability

Get peace of mind with consistent uptime and reliability.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions consistently delivers uptime reliability greater than 99.9%*. That means less stress for you and a better shopping experience for your customers.

Trust the proven ecommerce hosting leader.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions already supports one out of every eight online stores**, and processes more than $3 billion in transactions and supports over 2.7 billion shoppers every year***. View some of our merchants

Build on Yahoo! network's technology and connectivity.

Trust your store to the same backend technologies that keep the Yahoo! network running. Our reliable ecommerce hosting includes redundant links to the Internet to allow web sites to load quickly and enable higher user capacity.

Proven ability to handle traffic

  • Our proven, reliable ecommerce hosting systems can scale on demand to handle your peak sales traffic so you don't have to worry about volume planning or having your web site crash.
  • In the first day after Hurricane Katrina hit, the American Red Cross used its Yahoo! Merchant Solutions store to collect 115,000 donations or $16.5 million. At the peak of the donation period we handled 580 transactions per minute for this store alone!

Listen to the reviewers!

Yahoo Merchant Solutions received Small Business Computing's Excellence in Technology award for ecommerce hosting (January 2006) and PC Magazine's prestigious Editor's Choice Award for best ecommerce product (January 2005).


"...our readers overwhelmingly voted Yahoo! Merchant Solutions hosting as the top ecommerce storefront.."

- Small Biz Computing: Excellence in Technology award



  • * Based on internal monitoring over 12 months; does not include downtime for scheduled maintenance.
  • ** From Yahoo! Merchant Solutions customer count and a Yahoo! Shopping web crawl that indicates there are approximately 250,000 online businesses with shopping carts (excluding EBay listings, affiliate sites or banned items such as firearms, pornography, prescription drugs, and alcohol in the US.).
  • ***Yahoo! Merchant Solutions customer transactions from January 2005-December 2005

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