Shopping Cart Pricing

For less than one months rent in many retail locations you can have your online store up and running but open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, tirelessly helping people find your products and services and actually make purchases. The pricing of carts includes full initial setup and limited design and customization of your storefront. One important thing to note is that your StormCart™ store is YOUR own store. You make the rules. You decide when to upgrade systems, what modules you'd like to add, install, edit, configure or remove. Unlike many affiliate or co-op programs you have complete freedom of choice on how to run your store and how to set it up.

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Example of the StormCart Online Shopping Cart and eCommerce system

Pricing overview:

 

Setup - PayPal only: 999.95, (one time fee)

Setup with Authorize.net: 999.95 + 99 + 120 = $1218.95

Monthly PP Only: $24.90

Monthly w/ Authorize.net*: 24.90 + $18 = $42.90

Monthly w/ Authorize.net**: 24.90 + 18 + 25‡ + 9.95 = $77.85

More Detailed Explanations of charges.

Initial Setup: $999.95

For less than $1000 this includes assisting clients with domain purchase, registration and configuration, installation of your store software, limited customization and graphic enhancement, configuration of payment gateways, client key person training in the system and thorough systems testing.

Other considerations:

PayPal merchant account: Accept most forms of payment via PayPal with no setup fees, a percentage of sales revenue and other PayPal transaction fees may apply. You will need a PayPal account in order to implement this option in your cart but there is no charge for such a setup. Note that via PayPal you can accept payments from credit cards and straight from echeck payments on people bank accounts BUT your market will need to have established a "PayPal" account in order to purchase from your store. If you want to accept credit cards from people who have not set up such an account (and there are strong benefits to doing this) you will need to also have a credit card merchant account and gateway account as seen below...

Credit Card GATEWAY Account: We are connected to Authorize.net who is our primary supported merchant gateway provider. If your business already accepts credit cards you will only need the gateway, overall costs on that include a $99 setup fee, $18 MONTHLY gateway fee, a .10¢ TX fee (per transaction regardless of size) and a .25¢ Batch fee (if you performed 30 transaction in one day, the "Batch is the term for when all of those transactions are bundled an transferred to your business bank account as a single transaction. There is also an annual fees of about $80 for maintaining a gateway account.

Credit Card MERCHANT Account: If you do not accept credit cards you will also need a Merchant account. This is another product we handle through our partners at Authorize and it carries separate fees from the authorize.net account. Setup fee is $0.00 (FREE), Monthly statement fee is $9.95, transaction fee is .25¢, Discount rate for qualified purchases (other terms can force adjustments) 2.19%, monthly minimum processing fee* $25.

*Minimum processing fee is $25 but each transaction reduces that by the amount of Discount rate applied. So if your rate is 2.19% your processing fee is reduced to "0" after about $1150 of transactions.

SSL:

IMPORTANT: For authorize.net transactions to function the website must also have what is known as a "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) installed. This is a third party system which will allow your clients purchase information to travel securely between internet systems so that other parties can not descramble your customers financial or other information from web servers. The cost of purchasing the SSL and installing it is about $120.00. An SSL can be purchased for a single year or for as many as you wish. Installing the certificate costs about $60 so if you intend to keep the store for a while we suggest stacking 5 or more years to avoid recurring fees for installation.

Hosting: Standard StormDesigns hosting for your eCommerce website is based on combing the standard SH-1d hosting ($19.95/m) and the StormCart SC-1 hosting add-on which is $9.95/m when added to an SH-1 or SH-1d hosting package. For accounts that use a steadily available credit card to pay for their hosting a -$5 per month discount will be factored every month that the charge processes without error.

Other costs:

For the most part that covers the required default costs of installing, configuring and processing purchases through your store. We can offer an unlimited ability to customize the store and also to add specific modules to your store.

Modules can add functionality to your store which may be industry specific (there are modules available for many different types of businesses) as well as modules which are not industry specific but may add features and functions that default store does not contain. Templates are also available. It is important that templates and modules are engineered to work within the version of StormCart that you are running. Before installing modules or templates it is a good idea to be sure the system is freshly backed up so that changes prior to the backup are not lost in case there is a problem with some aspect of the installed software.

 

* If you already accept credit cards and only need the gateway

** If you also need a merchant account

‡ Minimum transaction fee will be reduced commensurate with transaction revenue. It decreases as your revenue increases.

Annual Fees: Authorize.net has approximately $80 annual renewal fee, SSL's can also require renewal and that can be as much as $100 for each year but can be installed for multiple years. Domain names also need to be renewed but these are as low as $15 ~ $25 per year. Some of these fees are for services provided by organizations other than StormDesigns, Inc. and we can not guarantee that today's pricing will be available tomorrow. Prices given that represent services of other parties will must be reviewed at time of purchase.

Minimally consider this as meaning as low as $999.95 for installation and $24.90 per month or as high as $1,218.95 and as high as $77.85+ for monthly hosting. Even at the high end it costs a lot less than rent right?