Operate an eCommerce Website!
Benefits to opening an online store through ChrisLands.com.
- Experience.
- We have been operating online bookstores since 2001.
- We have the best prices on the Internet.
- Fees start at just $24.99 a month.
- Very reasonable set-up fee.
- Click here for the entire fee schedule.
- Concentrate on selling your products rather than the development of your online store. Click Here to see what other ChrisLands store owners had to go through when they tried other store options.
- You can have your own web address such as www.yourstorename.com.
- Your items are searchable from your own site; you don't have to send your customers to find your items among millions of other items from tens of thousands of sellers on various other venues.
- Your items may be purchased securely (SSL encryption) from your own store.
- You can securely (SSL encrypted) retrieve order and payment information from your online store.
- Keep your customers by giving them a distinct web address (www.yourstorename.com) to come back and visit your store.
- Your online store will integrate with your current book database program.
- No software to buy.
- No software to install on your computer.
- No hidden costs.
- Automatically accept credit cards through our partner Propay.com (Only available for stores in the USA.)
- You can also accept credit card payments through Google Checkout and/or PayPal
- ChrisLands' is compatible with your own merchant account assuming it uses one of the following payment gateways:
- Authorize.net
- Linkpoint.com
- Protx.com (United Kingdom)
- Moneris Solutions eSelect Plus (Canada)
- iCommerce Gateway - Plug and Play
- You can upload/update your inventory by FTP or browser upload. Chrislands supports uploading from the following programs.
- FillZ.com - Recommend
- Homebase - Recommand
- Basil
- Bookmate
- BookHound
- BookTrakker - Recommend
- BookRouter.com
- theArtofbooks.com
- Any program that can export in UIEE format
- Any program that can export in our tab-delimited format
- Any program that can export in our comma-delimited format
- Your inventory automatically uploaded to Google Products (formerly base.google and froogle) twice a week. See more at Google Products.
- Your inventory automatically provided to Google through Google Sitemaps. Each week ChrisLands creates Sitemaps in accordance with Google's protocol (Google's Protocol). Chrislands creates these Sitemaps automatically for your store; you do not need to do anything. Chrislands does this so that you do not need to spend time working on technical issues and thus providing you more time to focus on selling your inventory. (Please remember even though your store uses Google Sitemaps there is no guarantee how many items Google will include in the Google search index or what position the items will appear in Google search results. Please see About Google Sitemaps for more information about the Google Sitemap program.
- Your online store offers the option of performing "Offline Search Services." You can offer your customers the convenience of finding items for them. If you are like many stores with only a fraction of your items online, this feature allows you the capability of selling items that you haven't had time to list online. If you don't have the item in stock, then you can search other stores for your customer.
- Operate an online store with no computer programming knowledge.
- We build the site for you in 5 to 7 business days.
- We provide database management and integration.
- We maintain your online inventory on a powerful SQL database.
- We provide web hosting for the store.
- You only need one company for a complete store solution.
- You can concentrate on your speciality - selling products.
- Chrislands offers the simplest and best method to build a secure, high-quality, online store.