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"Communities are social breeding grounds for highly effective e-commerce"

– Mark Stoever
VP E-commerce
Lycos

 

Commerce Services

netVillage provides a wide array of e-commerce options to ensure your community's success. These services include:
  • online shopping mall
  • integrated e-commerce currency (credits) system
  • credit card & online check processing
  • merchant account services
  • fulfillment & warehousing services

Online Shopping Mall
Sell products or host stores with your own community shopping mall.   This is not a nationally shared mall, but one you can brand to your own identity.  As it is a mall, your mall, you can rent stores to community members or even companies interested in targeting your particular community!   Stores can optionally use our credits-based currency system (described below) giving members a single source of payment processing and putting you in total control of currency flow.

Integrated credits-base e-commerce
Take advantage of our unique e-commerce ‘credits’ system.  It's a way you can surcharge for premium areas in your online community.  A user can maintain an electronic wallet (in the form of 'credits' applied to his account) and use this currency across all community services. Credits are drawn down automatically from this account for any fee-based services used on the system.  For example, a customer can deduct an amount to place a classified ad or download a special file from the File Libraries - all without having to pull out his credit card each time.

Every service has built into it options for surcharging: Charge for a special event chat with a celebrity, participation in a special forum, even sending an email - the options are endless.

You can even reverse the process, and pay users for participation!

Our cross-service credits-based accounting system is extremely powerful and key for creating a profit-generating web community. Click here for details.

Credit Card and Online Check Processing
You can accept credit card payment across all services on your site. We've partnered with FullEcom (www.fullecom.com), a leading provider of processing services both in the U.S. and overseas, to provide you with a validated credit card transaction while simultaneously giving your customer an encrypted secure, simple, and completed sales transaction - all at a low cost.

Merchant Account Services
We've eliminated the hassle and big price tag of applying for your own merchant account (the ability to accept credit cards) through our relationships with fullecomm and their partners.

Fulfillment Services
We've also negotiated optional fulfillment and distribution services for your products. Call for details.