Yahoo! Merchant Solutions

An ideal, sales-driving solution for establishing — and growing — your
e-commerce business.

2005 Editors' Choice Award — Yahoo! Merchant Starter
— PC Magazine

Even with all a web site can do for your small, growing company — from presenting a polished, professional image to streamlining customer service and communications, to name a few — the real strategy behind most successful web initiatives is always to improve the business's bottom line by selling products, services or solutions online. Still, setting up even a small web store can seem like a seriously daunting task, unless you know where to turn for help when you're starting out.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions is ready to help as soon as you're ready to get going. From setup consulting to a custom Yahoo! search-engine marketing plan to an easy-to-use store design wizard tool, this comprehensive service will have you up to speed e-commerce-wise quickly, simply, and at an especially affordable price.

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions is also offered at three service levels, depending on the amount of monthly sales predicted by the customer. The Starter Plan is recommended for expected sales up to $12K per month; it costs just $39.95 per month* with a one-time $50 setup fee (and a transaction fee of just 1.5%). The Standard Plan is recommended for expected sales of $12K-$80K per month; it costs $99.95 per month with a one-time $50 setup fee (and a lower transaction fee — just 1.0%). For serious e-commerce, estimated at more than $80K in transactions per month, consider the Professional Plan. It costs $299.95 per month with a one-time $50 setup fee (but the lowest transaction fee — just 0.75%).

As your needs grow, you can choose to upgrade your solution at any time.

*HOT OFFER: For a limited time, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions are offered at introductory prices close to one-third off the regular monthly charges for the first two months — with the initial setup fees waived! Also, you can save even more if you accept PayPal for e-commerce transactions; click here for details.

Key Features

One of the best things about Yahoo! Merchant Solutions options is that you can build your e-commerce presence at your own speed, depending on your changing business needs — whether you're just starting out or selling out huge warehouse of inventory. Advanced features include:

Easy store design

Use the simple wizard to design a professional-looking site quickly and easily. Support is offered for third-party tools, and you can also tap into Yahoo!'s professional web designer and developer network to build your store and ensure your pages are search-engine friendly.

Comprehensive product catalogs

Imagine having the capacity to manage online sales of up to 50,000 products! It's easy; just add product using the step-by-step wizard, or upload existing SKU databases or spreadsheets. You can even track customized product attributes.

Shopping cart/checkout

Choose from single or multiple-page checkout options. Customize page layouts with fields for order information — with full CSS support. Automatically add tax and shipping. Offer gift-wrapping. Send order-progress updates. You can even support downloadable products — and all shopping-cart contents can be saved for up to two weeks.

Marketing/Product Promotion

Your e-commerce pages are made search-engine friendly, with automatic submissions to both Yahoo! and Google. You can also benefit from free marketing plans, local listings, Google AdWords credits, discounts on Yahoo! Shopping, along with plenty of other free trials and valuable offers. You'll also benefit from up-selling and cross-selling at checkout, coupons and gift certificates, discount/volume pricing, trackable links, and even product catalog XML code that can be read by various shopping directories.

Legendary Yahoo! Small Business service

Just what you'd expect from Yahoo! — 24/7 toll-free phone and email support, extensive online and Getting Started guides, 60 days of no-cost store setup assistance — and even your own dedicated Account Manager (for qualified customers).

All this — and so much more

Yahoo! Merchant Services also takes care of several “back-end” things you'd probably rather not worry about, including order and payment processing, reports and statistics, application integration, security and reliability.

Learn more

On the web:

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/

See how you can save by accepting PayPal

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/paypal.php

Compare Yahoo! Merchant Solutions plans:

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/plans.php

Starter	$25.97
Standard	$64.97
Professional	$194.97