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Yahoo! Web Hosting Debuts Site Solution

 


Sunnyvale, California - (target=_blank>Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - March 30, 2007 -
Yahoo! Web Hosting has debuted a free site building tool, designed specifically for customers to create a professional, customizable web site using tools designed for template-based design, rather than having to develop entirely from scratch.


The new Yahoo! Site Solution includes:


Yahoo! Site Solution guides customers step-by-step as they build their site and provides them with high quality designs and tools to easily collect leads, so even novice customers can create a great-looking site that grows their business. The Site Solution tool will be included as a free feature in all Yahoo! Web Hosting packages and available to both new and existing customers. The new offering enhances Yahoo! Web Hosting’s portfolio of comprehensive, easy to use, affordable packages for small businesses looking to get online.



Payment Wizard

Yahoo! Small Business has also launched the new Payment Wizard, which provides a step-by-step guide for merchants to help compare payment options and set up the payment functionality for their online stores. The new feature is part of an ongoing initiative from Yahoo! Small Business to help merchants launch online stores easier, faster, and more successfully than ever before.



  • Yahoo!’s new step-by-step payment wizard allows merchants to easily set up their web site to accept online payments.

  • Yahoo! now offers more ways to accept online payments with the addition of PayPal Website Payments Pro, a merchant account service that enables credit cards to be accepted directly on their web site.


Yahoo! online payment solution includes:



  • The payment wizard provides a simple guided process and compares different ways merchants can accept online payments to make it easy to select the best option their business.

  • Once a payment processing option is selected, clear instructions are provided on how the application process works and the information needed to complete it.

  • Now, Yahoo! provides even more ways for merchants to accept online payments from their customers by using:

    • Yahoo!’s preferred merchant account provider Chase Paymentech,

    • any FDMS Nashville-compatible merchant account

    • PayPal Website Payments Pro merchant account (new)

    • PayPal Express Checkout




Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Overview

Yahoo! Small Business introduced the first phase of a significant upgrade of its e-commerce platform, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions back in October of last year. The enhancements are part of Yahoo!’s “Open For Business” initiative, a multi-stage project focused on enabling merchants to more quickly and easily launch online retail businesses, and to help them become successful once they are open for business online. Currently, more than 40,000 online merchants, about one out of every eight online stores, use the Yahoo! e-commerce platform. Previously launched enhancements included new ‘Design’ and ‘Add Products’ wizards that greatly streamline and accelerate the process for designing and setting up professional-looking online stores that are search engine friendly.

Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet brand, as one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.



For more information on the new tool at “Web Hosting, Learn More, please visit: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com.



To learn more about product and pricing information regarding Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, please visit: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce.


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