TheMerchant - e-Commerce Solution for real-time payment processing

TheMerchant is the final word in e-Commerce solutions, enabling real-time eCommerce payments for Australian SME's. It enables you to set up an online store that can process credit card payments within just six seconds.

What's more, it's the first Australian e-Commerce Solution to offer online credit card processing with no Internet transaction fees – so it saves you money with each transaction.

By processing credit card payments online, TheMerchant allows you to speed up the whole ordering process whilst reducing the amount of time and money spent processing orders offline.

Price of TheMerchant

• $350 setup fee
• $121 per month*, or
• $1,452 annually
• Domain registry fees for new domains

Features of TheMerchant

• 50 Mb commercial webspace
• 3 Gb traffic**
• 30 POP accounts giving you employee@yourcompany.com.au
• Anti-virus & Anti-spam add-ons available
• Unlimited aliases & catchall address
• EasyCGI pre-installed, including search engine, order/enquiry form, page counters
• Comprehensive website statistics (choose from 3 different packages)
• JSP hosting support
• mySQL hosting support
• PHP hosting support
• ASP hosting support
• PERL hosting support
• Python hosting support
• PowerCGI allows you to run your own customised CGI scripts, without charges
• MS Access database hosting support
• Postgres database hosting support
• Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Extensions
• Shopping cart support for EziCart, Ezimerchant, X-Cart
  128 bit SSL security

* billed annually
** excess data billed at 9.9 cents per Mb in arrears, or available at 5.5 cents per Mb if bought in advance, only available in 500Mb blocks

Benefits of hosting on TheMerchant

First in Australia to give eCommerce Merchants free eCommerce transactions

St George Bank and National Bank have accredited e-Commerce Solutions

The security of knowing our e-Commerce Solutions use exactly the same technology to process your eCommerce payments as every other e-Commerce payment provider. Only we can afford to be so low-cost, because we support so many customers.

• Search engine
  • You can allow customers to search your website by simply cutting and pasting a couple of lines of HTML into your webpages
• Enquiry forms & Order forms
  • Follow our simply instructions and allow customers to submit information to you
• Counters
  • Put counters on your webpages, so customers can see how many visits you get. Choose from loads of colours and designs

The speed of a 155Mb super-fast SMT1 ATM link

• You define your own alias (e.g. you-choose@yourCompany.com)
• You can choose methods to collect your email
  • forward it to another email address
  • queue it in a POP mailbox
  • access it through a webpage
• You define the name of your POP accounts
• Each POP account can be expanded from its 20Mb limit
• You can define your passwords
• You can add/delete accounts
• You can set up an autoresponder
• You can do everything instantaneously