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At 12:27 AM 5/14/03 -0700, Doris Kyburz wrote: >Hello all, > >I am in the process to "rescue" two friends from being kinda ripped off. >They pay $720 for hosting/year and $30/month for "domain maintenance". >Their site is not big at all, maybe 12MB, and has a little store with >about 250 items. > >I am collecting now all the information for them to make a new budget. > >Here are my questions: >- One item will be the ssl certificate. How much charge for a SSL >certificate is reasonable? >- Any recommendations for merchant accounts? >(I have looked up the archives and could not find any answers.) >- are there any other costs I may have overlooked regarding a shopping >cart setup? > >Thank you for your insight as always :-) > >Doris > > >ps. Thanks for all the input for my earlier shopping cart question. I have >found that edatcat (http://www.edatcat.com) suits my needs for this >project best. Hi Doris, Since we're not supposed to talk dollars and cents on this list, I won't discuss specifics. For Security Certificates, we just pass on the actual cost to the client. All our clients who take credit cards had the ability to do so before their web presence so they didn't need an online merchant account. We simply have their shopping cart set up to securely provide our client with the necessary information. (Of course, there's always PayPal...) As to other costs, we charge our clients an hourly fee for the database programming necessary to set up their shopping cart. We also use an Open Source shopping cart that we can modify for their needs so we'll charge them for the time to make modifications if needed. We also charge a slightly higher monthly hosting fee because secured sites need a fixed IP address (versus name based hosting). Lastly, regarding maintenance, that may not be too high, depending on how much monthly maintenance is needed. If you want high, we're hopefully about to pick up a client with only a 2M site and no ecommerce who used to be charged about $500 a month for maintenance and hosting!! They're current vendor has graciously cut that in half, but that's still way too high in my opinion. -- Nancy J. Foster Quill & Mouse Studios, Inc. http://www.quillandmouse.com Graphic Design -- Computer Typography -- Website Creation
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