In May aspdotnetstorefront and Interprise will be presenting a technology conference spotlighting not only aspdotnetstorefront and interprise but will bring together over a dozen companies presenting their finest solutions in terms of Accounting, CRM, eCommerce, Point of Sale, Internet Security, Multi Channel Marketing, Credit Card Processing…. The list goes on. The long and short of it is that this will an excellent ecommerce workshop for any business, web developer or online professional looking to see what the latest innovations in online business are today and are to come.  Applied Innovations has been asked to lead a presentation on webhosting, explaining the latest trends in hosting,  technologies available and ofcourse threats to ecommerce based sites so that web developers specializing in e-commerce can make informed and educated decisions when selecting a webhosting platform for their application.

Applied Innovations has a solid track record as a Windows based hosting provider that has catered to e-commerce hosting since 1999. Today we power over 10,000 domains on our network and more than 70% of our customers operate ecommerce based websites.  To add to that I have a love for e-commerce. Not too many people know my own background with e-commerce. You see, back in 1996/1997 I wrote my own shopping cart system in Perl from the ground up. I spent the next 3 years extending it and eventually decided it would make an excellent e-mall application. So with my newly earned MCSE and already extensive webdeveloper and sys admin experience, I gathered the 30 clients I had developed sites for and started a windows hosting company catering ofcourse to ecommerce based web sites and “so it began”.  It’s hard to believe that today we’ve operated a hosting company since 1999 and that I’ve been building ecommerce since 1996. That’s longer than many ‘web hosts’ have been using computers.

Anyway, the opportunity is outstanding for us as we love to interact with developers and it gives us a chance to further demonstrate just why Applied Innovations is making such a buzz these days in the hosting industry and web developer communities.

You can learn more about the conference here and if you’re attending we’re looking forward to meeting you.

http://www.aspdotnetstorefront.com/technologyconferencebrochure.pdf

To learn more about our e-commerce hosting visit: http://www.appliedi.net/ecommerce-hosting/

It's at Jusmon's crazy online outlet mall: http://www.jusmon.com/. Great outlet products at 'outlet online' prices.  Outlet online prices, what's that you say? Well, think about it. Online prices are generally less than retail right and outlet prices are generally less than regular prices right? So it would stand to reason that online outlet prices (TM) (and I'll coin the term) would be evenl less than regular online prices and FAR less than retail.  So swing on by Jusmon's outlet mall and have a look.

Cardinal Commerce offers the verified by visa program and is supported by both storefront and bvcommerce. It’s a service the client subscribes to that helps block fraudulent chargebacks. Say you have a online pc store and you sell someone a pc online. During checkout they’ll be asked for their password for their visa account, once they authenticate this information is sent to the vendor and the vendor is thus assured that should the customer attempt to perform a chargeback on the transaction that the vendor is protected. So what would this stop? Let’s say I sell you a pc from my store, you get it and say ‘hey guess what, I’m not happy with this, I’m not paying for it and I’m not sending it back either.’ Maybe go even further as to say ‘I’m going to tell the bank I never ordered’. Normally, an online merchant has no course of action against the client as online merchants do not share the same level of protection that brick and mortar merchants get. Generally the online merchant will have a tough, uphill battle with the bank to prove that the transaction is in fact fraudulent. Now if the client has Cardinal Commerce, the bank will say look ‘you entered your password when you purchased this product, you were verified, it's you.’ Thus the merchant is protected from a fraudulent transaction. At the same time the merchant isn't the only one protected, the shopper is also protected. Let's say you shop at an online store and purchase something from the store. Unknown to you the merchant uses one of these popular shopping carts that are knowingly vulnerable to SQL injection (yet the developers refuse to issue any updates to these applications or the merchant is left totally unaware that his shopping cart is in fact vulnerable). As a result some clever hacker comes along and gains access to your credit card information and goes on a shopping spree. Granted nowadays the credit card companies are quick to pick up on this, but let's say he tries to check out at a site protected by verified by visa, he's not going to be able to check out because although he's got your card information he doesn't have your VBV password. You as the consumer are also protected. So verified by visa is good for both the merchant and the shopper. These are ofcourse exaggerated examples but hopefully you get an idea of just what this service is and how it's useful. More information on verified by visa as offered by Cardinal commerce and supported by Applied Innovations can be found at: http://www.appliedi.net/newsletter/september_2005/cardinal_commerce/index.html