Exciting Freetailer Debuts
Excite@Home, Redwood City, Calif., has unveiled Freetailer, an e-commerce storefront service that enables users to create and manage a fully functioning store on the Internet
at no cost. Through a "straightforward" interface that requires no upfront
investment, Freetailer allows its customers to leverage the benefits of
Excite's shopping services.
Freetailer's features include 25 megabytes of storage space, which enables
placement of thousands of different types of products; 1 gigabyte per month
of bandwidth to serve a large numbers of customers; the ability to showcase
unlimited products in an e-tail store, all of which will automatically be
searchable within the Excite shopping services; customized storefronts and
logos; a virtual cash register, shopping cart and e-wallet feature that
stores a customer's credit card information; secure order management and
real-time reporting of customer orders and order/visit statistics within a
secure online back office; and sales and marketing tips and services offered
via a merchant resource center.
A variety of commerce upgrades, most of which can be ordered and enabled in
real-time, are available at www.freetailer.com in an online upgrade zone.
Such upgrades include domain name registration, POP e-mail accounts, a
credit card merchant account and a payment gateway. Other options include
integrated advertising programs, expanded search capability, extended FTP
capability, additional disk storage space and extra bandwidth, says the
company.
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