Ben Lomand Hosting is pleased to offer ProStores, an E-Commerce Solution that makes electronic commerce easier than ever.  ProStores solutions offer a range of benefits to meet your business needs, and can grow with your online business. 
ProStores is available in Starter, Standard, and Professional.
 

ProStores Starter - $14.99 / month   **(in addition to your monthly hosting plan fees)**
A low-cost solution for individuals who wish to sell a limited number of different products online and provide secure online checkout for customers via PayPal.  Includes two pages displaying up to 10 products, which can be created using the set up and design wizards in as little as 30 minutes. 
A first step for part-time, sideline or hobby businesses.

▪	Take advantage of real-time credit card processing
▪	Integrate your shipping tables with FedEx®, UPS™, USPS  or Canada Post
▪	Easy-to-use store building wizards
▪	Sign-up, post and manage product auctions on eBay®

ProStores Standard - $39.99 / month  **(in addition to your monthly hosting plan fees)**
An all-in-one, customizable e-commerce solution perfect for small businesses just starting out online.

Payment and Sale Management
▪	Shopping cart with secure and SSL enabled checkout, plus password protected access rights to different groups (employees, vendors, etc), anonymous checkout and shipping calculator added to checkout pages
▪	Real-time credit card payment processing, plus PayPal, WorldPay, store card, checks, and money orders
▪	Integrated with FedEx®, UPS®, USPS®, or Canada Post®, or create your own custom shipping tables
▪	Upload and share your product, order and customer information with QuickBooks®
▪	Robust order management system allows you to update orders, issue credit, and create reporting
▪	Sophisticated tax calculation functions
▪	Over a dozen reports to better manage your ProStores Web Store
Merchandising and Marketing
▪	Organize and cross-reference your product catalog by category, product name, or manufacturer
▪	Powerful search engine lets your customers search by price, keyword, SKU, category, subcategory, price range or product name
▪	Easily submit your products to popular shopping search engines including Yahoo!® Shopping™, Shopping.com®, Shopzilla™ and Froogle™
▪	Manage email marketing campaigns for your buyers
▪	Integrated with eBay.com and eBay Stores listing formats, so you can tap a marketplace of 147 million customers directly from your ProStores Web Store
▪	Fine tune your store with tools to help with search engine optimization
Inventory Management
▪	Hide products when products are out of stock
▪	Track inventory quantity at the product level

ProStores Professional - $79.99 / month  **(in addition to your monthly hosting plan fees)**
Designed for small- to medium-sized retail or service businesses that want to grow their sales and streamline operations with advanced merchandising, promotion, inventory management, and payment features. Start at this level if you will need to track inventory by item specifics, like size or color, want access to more sophisticated promotional tools, like storewide sales, quantity discounts, and promotion codes, or if you sell downloadable products.

Payments
	Shopping cart with secure and SSL enabled checkout, plus password protected access rights to different groups (employees, vendors, etc), anonymous checkout and shipping calculator added to checkout pages
	Real-time credit card payment processing, plus PayPal, WorldPay, store card, checks, and money orders
	Additional payment options: purchase orders, internal department orders and cash (COD) orders
	Integrated with FedEx®, UPS®, USPS®, or Canada Post®, or create your own custom shipping tables
	Sophisticated tax calculation functions
Sale Management
	Schedule recurring billing for subscriptions, services, installment payment options, and "product of the month" clubs
	Enable the sale of downloadable products such as software, e-books, and music
	Shoppers can store their shopping cart if they aren't ready to complete a purchase, and can come back to add to their cart or pay for their order
	Buyers can save frequent shopping cart orders to make repeat purchases quick and easy
	Robust order management system allows you to update orders, issue credit, and create reporting
	Add invoices for orders taken by phone, in person, or via email
	Upload and share your product, order and customer information with QuickBooks®, Access and Excel
	17 sophisticated reports to better manage your ProStore
Merchandising and Marketing
	Advanced promotional capabilities, including storewide sales, quantity discounts, and promotion codes
	Issue store credits for orders, goodwill or promotions
	Organize and cross-reference your product catalog by category, product name, or manufacturer
	Powerful search engine lets your customers search by price, keyword, SKU, category, subcategory, price range or product name
	Daily submission to popular shopping search engines including Yahoo!® Shopping™, Shopping.com®, Shopzilla™ and Froogle™
	Manage email marketing campaigns for your buyers
	Integrated with eBay.com and eBay Stores listing formats, so you can tap a marketplace of 147 million customers directly from your ProStore
Inventory Management
	Automate inventory management functions, including re-order threshold notifications by product and attribute
	View online low inventory and backorder reports
	Hide products when products are out of stock, choose whether to display quantity available to customers, and enable backorders
	Consolidate inventory management for all sales channels