Technology to Create Sell-Side

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Technology to Create Sell-Side
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MAIN FUNCTIONALITIES

• Personalization
• Secured payments
• Client Management
• Order management
• Catalogue Management
• Performance
• Search

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Building a store Turnkey approach

• Turnkey Approach
• Supplier provides everything (software, hosting,
  ASP mode).
• Company only needs an Internet connexion and a
  web browser
• Amount per month based on volume
• Suppliers
• Yahoo!Store (ca.store.yahoo.com)
• ClicNet (www.clicnet.net)
• Microsoft BCentral
• Amazon.com zShops

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Clic.net

• Quebec company
• Alliance with Postes Canada
• Two approaches
• Complete store
• Shopping cart that can be integrated in a web
  site
• Advantages
• Low setup cost
• Simple
• Turnkey

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Clic.net main functionalities

• Electronic catalogue categories and
  sub-categories with images, description and
  product list
• For each product code, name, description, Can
  price, US price, TPS, TVQ, weight, length, width,
  height, image, possible options for each product
  with influence on price and weight

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Clic.net main functionalities

• Back-Office
• Expedition parameters
• Payment choices
• Taxes
• Orders
• Other services
• Domain name
• Credit card processing (PSiGate, InternetSecure)
• Site marketing

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Clic.net Pricing

• http//www2.clicshop.com/En/pricing_ca.html

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Yahoo! Store (ca.store.yahoo.com)

• Simple
• Not very expensive
• Bit more sophisticated than Clic.net mostly in
  the management of the site and format

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Yahoo! Store major functionalities

• Catalogue
• Shopping Cart
• Statistics
• Cross sales
• Integration with accounting software
• Control over the stores parameters

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Yahoo! Store costs

• Pricing is simple 150/month for a store selling
  100 items,
• 500/month for up to 1000 items. There is no
  startup fee, and you can cancel whenever you
  want.
• 150/month for each additional 1000 items
• Participation to Yahoo! Shopping
• 3 of sales
• Credit card charges

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Amazon.com Zshops

• Familiar Amazon.com Interface. All the stores are
  the same.
• Interesting management tools
• Amazon Payments (0.25/transaction plus 2,5 of
  transaction amount)
• Clients comments
• Access to Amazons 30 million clients
• Costs 39,99/month for up to 40,000 items

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Microsoft BCentral

• www.bcentral.com or www.bcentral.ca
• US24,95/month
• Fairly cheap but sophisticated solution

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Build Your Own Approach
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Architecture
Windows 2000 Server IIS Commerce Server
Kenny
SQL Server
Internet
Edgar
SQL Request
Database
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Necessary Software

• Operating System
• Windows, Unix, Linux (open source)
• Database Server
• SQL Server (Microsoft), DB2 (IBM), Oracle, MySQL
  (open source)
• Http Server
• IIS (Microsoft), Apache (open source)
• E-Commerce Server
• Commerce Server (Microsoft), WebSphere (IBM),
  osCommerce (open source), BEA, Broadvision,
  Iplanet (Sun)