Selling Membership Online

Payment Online's ecommerce solution for selling memberships is called eComMembership. This professional-looking ecommerce solution is very easy to integrate with your website.

It offers powerful membership management features for all aspects of user/member management (single or multi-layered memberships), with integrated recurring billing.

The eComMembership is different from other systems in that everything you need is integrated into one solution which saves you a lot time, money, and hassle.

All-in-one ecommerce solution	Completely customizable
Ecommerce storefront hosting	Comprehensive SEARCH tools
Internet Merchant Account	Flexible sales/order reporting
Membership management system	Customer Database Import/Export
Payment gateway services	Product Database Import/Export
Online credit card processing	Unlimited Products (no per-item charge)
Easy to integrate with your website	Virtual Terminal
Proven and time-tested solution	Software Upgrade
Web-based administration	No hidden fees
Satisfaction Guaranteed	24/7 Technical Support

Payment Online has made it easy for you to add ecommerce functionality to your website by offering a hassle-free solution that has everything you need to start selling online, in as little as just one day.

	Selling Membership Online?
	Membership Management with Recurring Billing System
	Membership Ecommerce Storefront Hosting
	Membership with Online Credit Card Processing
	Membership Integrated with Payment Gateway Services
	Web-based Admin Interface
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	eComMembership Features and Description
	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
	Download eComMembership Product Guide
	How can I get my Ecommerce Started Today?

Selling Membership Online?

Payment Online's eComMembership provide you with a single-source membership ecommerce sales, management, information, and customer service center.

During the initial setup by Payment Online, we install, configure, and integrate all the modules you need so that you don't have to waste hours reading through technical manuals. All of this saves you a lot money, time, and hassle.

This ecommerce solution is designed to offer:

The eComMembership is a Professional-looking membership system that has unmatched features and functionality and it is ideal for companies and businesses that wish to sell single or multi-tiered membership products/services with recurring billing.

There is even a powerful and automated Username /Password module that can be integrated for those that want to keep hosting on their own Internet servers and wish to avoid complex server-side installation and configuration.

	Your customers can sign up for your membership or registrations online at the latest prices / discounts / promotions, 24 hours a day
	Enhance services and conveniences to improve customer satisfaction
	Robust management tools for high levels of configurability
	Automated and fully customizable email cofirmation for initial orders
	Optional automated renewal reminder emails and/or renewal confirmation
	Customers can make changes to their profile online, e.g. changing credit card information, address, or login username/password.

Using the eComMembership, your subscribers (also referred to as 'Users' or 'members' ) can have access to online content, such as:

Access to a content area is in the form of a login that includes a username/password to a secure area, usually on a web site, called "member's area". The access is often periodic, for instance monthly, and the users are charged (in this case) a monthly fee.

The eComMembership has been implemented on many content-based ecommerce sites, including:

Membership Management with Recurring Billing System

When your online customers place an order on your website, they are automatically added to the Subscription Management system. This a Professional-looking membership system that has unmatched features and functionality and it is ideal for companies and businesses that wish to sell single or multiple membership products/services with recurring billing.

There is even a powerful and automated Username /Password module that can be integrated for those that want to keep hosting on their own Internet servers and wish to avoid complex server-side installation and configuration

Creating, modifying and managing customer profiles is exceptionally easy through the Administrative Interface.

You can generate reports on all transactions and customer history, activate or deactivate subscriber, manage denied cards, and upon reactivation, the system can automatically reprocess all previous denied periodic billing charges.

In addition, this system uses direct query to the powerful integrated membership database in the back-end, and has a quick integration process to facilitate selling other products (such as shippables and digital download) to existing subscribers in the same database. This is a very sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, system that makes your ecommerce hassle-free.

The recurring billing system is so versatile that it allows daily, weekly, bimonthly, monthly, quarterly, or annual memberships and offers single or multi-layer memberships, with single or multiple group permissions.

Even the most advanced multi-layered marketing models can easily use this powerful module with ample flexibility and complete assurance.

	Your customers can sign up for your membership or registrations online at the latest prices / discounts / promotions, 24 hours a day
	Enhance services and conveniences to improve customer satisfaction
	Robust management tools for high levels of configurability
	Automated and fully customizable email cofirmation for initial orders
	Optional automated and fully customizable renewal reminder emails and/or renewal confirmation
	Customers can make changes to their profile online, e.g. changing credit card information, address, or login username/password.
	Automated signup through the Shopping Cart/Order Page and automated expiration
	Customer can select a username of their choice or the Default with unique username management system
	Flexible customization features
	Automated visitor monitoring to ensure avoidance of multiple people logging in with the same username/password.
	"Forgot-username" and "Forgot-password" systems that allow automated sending of the username/password to the email address of the user when he/she has forgotten their login information
	Web-based tools for both users and Admin with fully encrypted login/password

Access to a content area is in the form of a Login that includes a Username/Password to a secure area, usually on a website, called "member's area". The access is often periodic, for instance monthly, and the user/members are charged (in this case) a monthly fee.

If you have any questions regarding our membership systems with recurring billing, or any other questions please contact Payment Online at (206) 382-1515 - and select option "1". Our friendly staff will answer all of your questions and assist you with your ecommerce storefront.

Membership Ecommerce Storefront Hosting

Payment Online has served more than 40,000 customers worldwide with ecommerce hosting, packaged ecommerce solutions, custom ecommerce development, transaction processing, secure real-time credit card processing, payment gateway services, third party processing, storefronts, AdTrack / AffiliateTrack software, custom website design & development, and community solutions.

Payment Online uses industrial-strength power servers which are built for the sole purpose of being mission-critical application servers. Our servers are powered by Intel® Dual XEON 3GHz+ processors with ultra fast 10,000rpm SCSI drives (RAID-1), 2x512KB cache, 4GB DDR ECC RAM, with a reliable backup solution. Unlike other hosting companies, we do not overload our servers with thousands of web sites - because we are ecommerce transaction processor - not a website hosting company.

Ecommerce hosting has to be absolutely reliable and available for transactions otherwise orders are lost. Hence why our infrastructure is designed to be lightning fast and extremely reliable and robust.

Sitting on the edge of the most robust network backbone available today, our networking infrastructure is housed in state-of-the art carrier-class datacenter that includes fully redundant connectivity with the service, support and security you expect from a leading company, including seismic bracing and multiple redundant H.V.A.C. Systems, fluid smoke and heat detection systems combined with gas fire suppression and pre-action sprinkler systems, armed security, escorted data center access, card key and biometric locks, surveillance cameras, and intrusion sensors throughout.

Within these defenses, lay the multiple tiers of network redundancy, load-balancing technology, and a robust network architecture designed for reliability, security, and redundancy.

Infrastructure that is designed for mission-critical ecommerce:

24/7 Physical Security Monitoring Systems

24/7 Network Security and Loadbalancing Systems

24/7 Technical Support and Customer Care Help Desk

Enterprise-wide Backup, Redundency and Recovery Systems

Computer Aided Software Integrity/Version Management

If you have any questions regarding our networking infrastructure, please contact Payment Online at (206) 382-1515 - and select option "1". Our friendly staff will answer all of your questions and assist you with your ecommerce software, services, and solutions.

Membership with Online Credit Card Processing Online?

Secure online credit card processing is performed through Payment Online's mission-critical application servers connecting directly through to access the banking networks.

With transaction processing that is extremely fast (averaging less than 3 seconds), unfailingly reliable, and ultra-secure.

This means none of the processing errors, lost transaction data, multiple re-submits, security hazards, or shopper frustration you'll get with some other ecommerce service providers.

Payment Online is a VISA CISP compliant member. All credit card information at Payment Online are kept encrypted. There are two digital certificates used each with two private and public keys. There is an SSL Server with Certificate Authority Digital Certificates that ensure the connection between your site and your customer is secure and data is trasmitted in encrypted format.

Also, for extra security and at no cost to you, there a a digital certificate used for your connection to the membership database to access the credit card information using the same technology that is used in nuclear bunkers.

Even the administrative and technical support departments at Payment Online cannot see the encrypted credit card information inside our company. All of this is in addition to credit card processing security measures such as audit trail, AVS, CVV2, SECmonitor, and more.

If you have any questions regarding our membership ecommerce with online credit card processing, or any other questions please contact Payment Online at (206) 382-1515 - and select option "1". Our friendly staff will answer all of your questions and assist you with your ecommerce storefront.

Membership with Integrated Payment Gateway

To sell products and services online and receive payments online, businesses and companies need to have access to a payment gateway for processing transactions.

Payment Online's powerful and robust payment gateway can process transactions in 2-3 seconds, has multiple security layers, and offers unmatched flexibility for customization and integration with almost any platform available today.

	All transaction types supported, including authorization only, authorization with capture, void, and credit
	All credit card types supported
	Full recurring billing system with billing options management
	Multi level subscriptions (tiered subscriptions and membership)
	Recurring billing transactions can also trigger a postback if needed
	Payment gateway can be integrated through HTML order pages
	Transactions can be sent through CGI payment gateway by https POST or software script
	Back office integration
	Duplication order checking system
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Choosing the right payment gateway is absolutely essential to the success of your online business. Apart from the cost of the payment gateway, you would want to avoid additional costs associated to payment gateways that do not offer fraud protection facility and integration inflexibility.

	Payment is deposited into merchant's bank account daily (your funds are transferred to your bank account same day)
	Accepts secure Point of Sale Credit Card transactions in real-time or (optional) manual patch processing - with automated or manual settlement
	Accepts secure Internet Credit Card transactions in real-time or (optional) manual patch processing - with automated or manual settlement
	Integrates with any standard shopping cart catalog system or any Internet based website
	Comprehensive web-based merchant transaction management and reporting with database import/export
	Prepaid account features for prepaid billing with full management of credits, debits, account balance, and history
	Special transaction type for retrieving order information and subscription information
	Ability to include user defined fields that get past through
	Transactions are sent via industry-standard https POST through to the CGI payment gateway
	Vitual Terminal for manual processing of credit cards (e.g. for telephone and mail orders)
	Supports VISA / MC / Amex / Discover / Diners Cards / Switch cards - and just about any credit card type on the Banking Interchange
	Accept https post from your website, from software, or from any webhost and customer does not leave your website
	Secured with encruption server and 128bit SSL encryption direct through the banking interchange
	Customers can make changes to their profile online, e.g. changing credit card information, address, or login username/password.
	Void or Refund/Credit features
	Automated email confirmation to merchant and customer
	Payment processing STATUS report and form data correction to assist the customer with order processing
	Comprehensive search tools for customers, transactions, and orders
	"Denied" reports for credit cards that were denied
	Debug Tools to analyse the credit card
	Recurring billing payment processing
	Subscription based automated credit card processing
	Membership based automated credit card processing
	Full Data Backup and 24/7 Security Monitoring System
	24/7 HelpDesk and Call Center for Support Services

The first (and currently) the only Payment Gateway that incorporates a Secure Digital Certificate for transmission between you (the merchant) and your Web-based Administrative interface that displays encrypted credit card information. This means that the technology used in the most secure environments (e.g. Nuclear Bunkers) is used to only allow YOU to review your customer's encrypted credit card information through the Intenet.

One of the other most popular features of our Payment Gateway is a DEBUGGER, which shows you exactly what happended to the transaction, gives your processing codes and also offers a separate APPROVED and DENIED report that helps you manage reprocessing in such an easy manner.

Another very popular feature is the provision of an integrated Virtual Terminal that provides manual processing for any telephone or fax orders and still incorporates all the order information into your customer database automatically.

Three other features that are most often asked for are:

1) Prepaid account feature for prepaid billing and ability to credit and debit a prepaid account as well as looking up account balance and history is also incorporated;

2) Special transaction types for retrieving order information and subscription information is also provided;

3) Powerful email confirmation features is also included for approved or declined, recurring or prepaid, renewals and/or initial sale with powerful flexibility for even the most marketing driven companies.

For clients that have a membership/subscription sites, our Payment Gateways provide automated recurring processing - AND - automatic reprocessing of reactivated members for all missed recurred periods. This makes your life so much easier when your customer forgets to update his expiry date, and after a few month comes back and wants to pay for all previous months. Another feature that will make life so wonderful when you need to use it.

The Payment Online's Payment Gateway has some of the most cherished features.

Yet another one of the most important one is the ability to download the entire transaction database that you can use for customer support, record keeping, and accounting back-end integration.

Our clients rave about how easy and quick they can download multiple format compatible database and ODBC.

Customer Support has never been easier ... would you like to let your online customers to go to an interface, authenticate their account, and then they can update their customer information or new credit card number or expiry - or even let them cancel or reactivate automatically through an online interface? Well, with Payment Online's payment gateway, you can.

How many Payment Gateways have endured the test of time and have proven themselves to 40,000+ customers, millions of transactions per month, for commercial, government, and international credit card and online payment processing, since 1997?

Complete integration with back-end database through Internet standard technology with POST back feature that allows a multitude of functionality with designing a customer-centric ecommerce Web site.

If you have any questions regarding our membership ecommerce with integrated payment gateway services, or any other questions please contact Payment Online at (206) 382-1515 - and select option "1". Our friendly staff will answer all of your questions and assist you with your ecommerce storefront.

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