What is ebusiness?

E-Business simply means using the power of the internet to find and sell to new customers or sell to existing ones more cost effectively and then trading (selling) on line using an on line shop linked into your web site. The same business principles apply as do to increasing your off line trading performance: you can only increase profits by selling more to existing customers, finding new customers just like your best ones or improving the efficiency of your processes. In some areas E Business can "quantum leap" this, as a well designed shop and site can be more easily found by search engines leading to many fresh customers difficult to find by traditional means.

What's needed

To take credit card payments on line you need: Netshop and an account with a third party payment provider, such as Paypal, Netbanx, Worldpay, SecPay etc. You also need a merchant account with your bank for the money to be paid into. You need an on line shop which is specifically certified as secure by the payment provider. Your supplier for the on line shop should manage all this for you.