Commerce Services
netVillage provides a wide array of e-commerce options to ensure your community's success. These services include:
online shopping mall
integrated e-commerce currency (credits) system
credit card & online check processing
merchant account services
fulfillment & warehousing services
Online Shopping Mall
Sell products or host stores with your own community shopping mall. This is not a nationally shared mall, but one you can brand to your own identity. As it is a mall, your mall, you can rent stores to community members or even companies interested in targeting your particular community! Stores can optionally use our credits-based currency system (described below) giving members a single source of payment processing and putting you in total control of currency flow.
Integrated credits-base e-commerce
Take advantage of our unique e-commerce ‘credits’ system. It's a way you can surcharge for premium areas in your online community. A user can maintain an electronic wallet (in the form of 'credits' applied to his account) and use this currency across all community services. Credits are drawn down automatically from this account for any fee-based services used on the system. For example, a customer can deduct an amount to place a classified ad or download a special file from the File Libraries - all without having to pull out his credit card each time.
Every service has built into it options for surcharging: Charge for a special event chat with a celebrity, participation in a special forum, even sending an email - the options are endless.
You can even reverse the process, and pay users for participation!
Our cross-service credits-based accounting system is extremely powerful and key for creating a profit-generating web community.
Credit Card and Online Check Processing
You can accept credit card payment across all services on your site. We've partnered with FullEcom (www.fullecom.com), a leading provider of processing services both in the U.S. and overseas, to provide you with a validated credit card transaction while simultaneously giving your customer an encrypted secure, simple, and completed sales transaction - all at a low cost.
Merchant Account Services
We've eliminated the hassle and big price tag of applying for your own merchant account (the ability to accept credit cards) through our relationships with fullecomm and their partners.
Fulfillment Services
We've also negotiated optional fulfillment and distribution services for your products. Call for details.
Content Services
Content is King! You need to keep and attract visitors, with targeted content that grabs your audience, keeps them on your site and coming back for more.
Internet Newsgroups Import
Add instant content to your message groups by importing directly from Internet newsgroups. Internet newsgroups are vast discussion threads broken into almost unlimited topic ranges. Typical web users are unaware or unable to access this data. With netVillage, you can Import this valuable content directly into your web site. Currently no other product can do this.
Supplemental Content
You can also supplement your specialized content with data from our partners below. Contact our sales department to take advantage of our volume discount pricing.
Consulting & Customization Services
In addition to comunity hosting, we also offer consultation and customization services to enable you to differentiate your business from the competition by providing superior products and services - from web-page design to unique application development.
Our software development staff has been in the "online" business since 1988. We aren't one of the new "Web Providers" birthed only within the past few months. Our satisfied clients range from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 500 companies, giving us a cross-industry exposure that can provide valuable insight into options available in developing your online presence. All corporate projects are administered using proven project management methodologies. Deliverables are identified, milestones are set, and continuous project tracking takes place to ensure that progress is on schedule.
Moderation Services
Our partners in community moderation provide valuable management services. Managers and moderators are trained brand representatives who work daily to activate membership, increase participation, promote products, and enhance the online experience.
Training
While generally configuring and administrating our community toolset doesn't require a lot of effort or training, it doesn't hurt to have a seasoned community-building expert provide instruction, suggestions, and tips. Our expertise and community tools pre-dates even the web - we then built online communities for dial-up services. We know what works, and what doesn't, in the community space.
We provide on-site and in-house training which includes:
3 to 4 day training course for up to 3 students training manuals
If you are interested in training services please contact our sales department at 954-570-7676.
