There are three technical components to an e-commerce venture: a storefront, a mechanism to take payments and a means to track browser and buyer activity.

The Ilisys e-commerce bundle addresses each of these requirements with robust, secure and scalable technologies: osCommerce, the Camtech payment gateway and Urchin analytics software.

osCommerce
Ilisys has adopted the best-of-breed, opensource e-commerce store, osCommerce, to provide shopping cart, checkout and payment facilities for Linux web hosting customers.

This software is free when the prerequisites of a MySQL database and shared SSL certificate are added to any Linux hosting package.

Ilisys / Camtech payment gateway
Optionally, you can add the Ilisys / Camtech realtime payment gateway to your osCommerce store. This provides the real-time processing of credit card payments for your online store.

Camtech will process the payments on all major credit cards, credit the purchase to your account in most Australian banks and help with managing card fraud by detecting bad or cancelled cards in real time.

Urchin
With the optional addition of Urchin Pro analytics software to your hosting package you can track visitor behaviour and order attributes to help you fine tune your online presence.

Urchin combines information gained from the web server's logs, the Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) and osCommerce's own logs to produce reports that cover such topics as products by revenue, revenue by region and, importantly for an online presence, revenue by referrals, search terms and search engines.

This significantly enhances what is available with osCommerce's own reporting modules.

More information
For more information on these services, contact E-Commerce Support (ecommerce@ilisys.com.au or 1800 995 641).