Payment Management

While most configuration options do not require further explanation, several aspects are not free from difficulty, particularly as regards the management of payment’s. However, all aspects are covered in the 2 videos. The second starts on the explanation of payment module.

WP e-Commerce offers many opportunities for online payments. This is undoubtedly the most sensitive because it will impact your brand directly. Everything must work for the best, and so secure. From this point of view, you do not have to worry about anything because the plugin does not handle payments, but actually entrust this task to internationally recognized services such as Paypal or Google Checkout.

To begin, I strongly recommend you opt for a solution because Paypal you can not only offer your visitors to pay via Paypal but also – and this is the strong point of this solution, credit card (Visa American Express, Mastercard, etc.). Also, note that it is possible to accept payments by check. In this case, you can formulate a message to indicate the procedure for your customers.

Buys a Product Online

The quality of online shopping hardly improves. This suggests the latest ICT Barometer from Ernst & Young. The study assesses periodically the opinions and experiences of over six hundred managers and professionals in business and government. Six in ten respondents each month buys a product online, 11% do so even weekly. 40% of respondents will then make mistakes in 2008 was 38%. The offense is top 3 since the previous measurement in 2008 unchanged: high shipping costs, time of delivery and not stock the product.

If something goes wrong with shopping online is usually an error on delivery (25% versus 22% in 2008) or an error in the order (12% vs. 11%). High shipping costs are still lonely top annoyances when it comes to shopping online (62% versus 58% in 2008). The time of delivery and being out of stock products also provide irritate, though here or improvement. Harry Small, industry leader Retail & Consumer Products and partner at Ernst & Young: “There is for online retailers a world to win their services more flexible.

Shipping is a point, but you can service reciprocate. Companies need better thinking with the receiver. They can positively differentiate by offering customization and choice. For example, with respect to the time of delivery or the place where the consumer wants to retrieve products. We expect that customer satisfaction then rapidly increases

Prospects E-commerce in Indonesia

Today, the Internet has become one of the media marketing and sales of cheap, fast and has a large range to penetrate the borders – national borders. Along with the internet boom in the late 1990′s, the rise of various online shops that offer the product through a website designed to be able to conduct transactions online, and was born the term E-commerce. In America, the value of trade transactions are conducted online retail continues to rise. Based on statistics published by the U.S. Census Bureau, the value of online retail transactions in three months (quarter), first in 2008 reached 33 billion USD. This amount is approximately 3.3 percent of the total value of retail trade in the range of those times. When viewed from the percentage, the value of online retail transactions has increased when compared with the end of 2000 which only reached 1 percent of the total value of retail trade.

What about Indonesia? Although I have yet to obtain statistical data on this subject, but the estimated retail value of transactions conducted via the Internet is still a very small amount and percentage when compared with the overall value of retail transactions. This is in line with the small number of Internet users in Indonesia, which according to new data APJII about 8 percent of the population. In addition, Internet users have long used the Internet were not necessarily have to transact through the Internet because the problem has not been convinced of customs or security.

Based on this fact, how about the prospect of E-commerce in Indonesia? I contend that the E-commerce in Indonesia still has potential to grow rapidly. This is supported by several factors, namely:

• Internet access is getting cheaper and faster, which will increase the number of internet users
• Support from the banking sector, which provides internet banking and SMS banking, which will speed the transaction process
• The cost of the increasingly cheap web hosting
• The easy and cheap to build E-commerce sites supported by the availability of a variety of open source software, such as osCommerce, Magento, etc.

In addition to things – things mentioned above, the development of E-commerce in Indonesia would be supported also by the rules and regulations that protect consumers from losses due to fraud, credit card fraud, and various other potential losses. Therefore, consumers can shop online safely and comfortably.