Nihil Ultra- Web Hosting and E-commerce solutions

Electronic commerce, e-commerce or internet commerce enables companies to sell products and services to consumers worldwide over the Internet. The growth of e-commerce is exploding. By 2002, total ecommerce transactions are projected to exceed $349 billion dollars annually. A direct, real-time, producer to consumer virtual marketplace will dominate the national and global economies. Hundreds of thousands of new and agile companies will emerge from around the globe. Opportunity for prosperity will abound for those prepared to take advantage of it.

The implications for businesses, both large and small, are clear. Ecommerce means advertising, selling and supporting products and services using a Web Store around the clock for customers worldwide. The Web Store, or store that works 24 hours day, 7 days in a week, is not geographically or politically restricted. It has global reach. Get your Nihil Ultra Web Store working for you today.

There are a number of ways with varying levels of sophistication to conduct ecommerce. Your Nihil Ultra E-commerce solutions can take advantage of any combination of features to include third party solutions that you select to conduct ecommerce. As a minimum your E-commerce solution should include SSL and PGP(server-side) encryption for secure transactions.

Nihil Ultra also offers a comprehensive suite of electronic commerce products and services which cover all the facets of building and maintaining a Web Store.

The Nihil Ultra solution is robust, low cost and easy step by step process because at Nihil Ultra, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to participate in the "global marketplace" without getting involved into the nitty gritty technical details of it.

There are three basic products/services required to conduct "real-time" ecommerce 24 hours a day, seven days a week:

1) Build a web store with a shopping cart, catalog and inventory features;

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2) Accept Payment.

Execute payment processing for real-time credit card transactions using a merchant account and gateway to a payment processing center such as 1st-Commerce.

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3) Promote your web store and find channels to sell your products and services.

Creates product catalogs, organizes the layout of the site, tracks inventory, calculates transactions, creates invoices and much more from your "Ultrashop Administration" control panel. Comparable packages cost $100s or even $1000s of dollars for a single store license. Automates your store management so you can manage your business. You can use Ultrashop as a standalone application with your server, FREE SSL and PGP access included, or as part of Nihil Ultra's turnkey ecommerce solution.

1stCommerce (Low Cost Solution for Nihil Ultra Customers). Provides payment processing services using secure, encrypted real-time credit card transactions over the Internet. Fraud protection is built-in. Provides a merchant account and coordinates the transfer of funds between your bank, a payment processing service, and a customer's bank. Frees up your time spent on manually reconciling accounts, confirming authorizations, transferring funds etc.

Even if you have a standard merchant account, you need to obtain an Internet compliant merchant account and 1st Commerce is one of the best solutions in the industry. However, you can use your Internet compliant merchant account to process standard merchant account transactions via your Web Store and on-line order forms.

Internet Merchant Accounts
1st Commerce offers competitive rates for Internet compliant merchant accounts. There is a 98% approval rate on final applications submitted. Take advantage of this offer today! Application processing will normally occur within 2 weeks. Upon receipt of a complete and accurate application, you will gain access to a user-friendly, on-line interface which provides detailed up-to-date reports and will allow you to track, administer, void, and reconcile transactions anytime and from anywhere.

Internet Merchant Account Rates

- $150.00 Non-Refundable Application Fee(Annual Fee Waived)
- 2.25% Discount Rate
- $10.00 Monthly Customer Service Fee**
- $0.30 fee per transaction with a $25 dollar monthly minimum
  ** Merchants will incur a $10.00 charge per successful chargeback to their merchant account.
  
  Site Inspection Fee*** (if applicable)
  ***Merchants with monthly volume over $10,000 will be subject to a site inspection fee based upon geographical regions.

Nihil Ultra offers a real-time, turnkey e-commerce solution with everything you need for as little as US$89.95 a month. How much does, or would it cost you to manage a store, hire the people, and advertise your business world-wide using a traditional storefront 24 hours a day, seven days a week and selling your product worldwide? What would your start-up costs be? Consider using your Web Store to augment your current business model.

Start your Web Store today and seize the opportunity to capitalize on the ecommerce revolution. Become a leader in your industry by grasping the implications of the new internet economy. As you know, that many people these days start there search for a product or service only in the internet.

The Nihil Ultra's Ecommerce Solution coordinates the transfer of funds between a customer's bank, a payment processing service, and your bank. If the transaction is approved, funds are usually transferred to your (merchant) bank account within 36 to 72 hours.