Our e-commerce development are based on our custom design and programming service. Each business has a unique set of requirements, goals and budget that determine the development process we follow. We create an e-commerce platform that supports all specific aspects of your business.

The purpose of this document is to outline the project steps we generally take when building new e-commerce applications. In this section we also introduce you to the key elements required to successfully do business on Internet.

E-commerce development starts with your decision to sell on the Web and your first step: contact us, or ask us for a free quote. If you call or sit with us we will provide you a one hour free consultation. E-commerce development starts when and if you are happy with quotes and provided information.

Thoroughly building an understanding of your specific business needs and balancing them with industry trends: During initial discussions we gather details about your company, your customers and project goals to discover your requirements. We ask a lot of questions and look over your existing printing catalogs, brochures and other marketing and promotional documents. While we are looking for a solution that satisfies your customers and meet your own needs and business position, we ask for your ideas while offering many of our own.

Defining a comprehensive e-business strategy that leverages your existing core strengths: After we determine the initial requirements for the project we make a agreement/contract with the development approach and the basic store plan.

Web stores like any other stores need bank accounts, security for transactions and especially, security and technology for real time credit cards transactions. This accounts and services are provided by the banks and their highly specialized partners. As a part of the project we can set these up for you or help you to do it by yourself - if you don't have these accounts already, we can offer advice on selecting appropriate vendors. The account fees are covered by the client. Finally, your Internet store will need appropriate web hosting service. Although web hosting service could be provided by us, usually e-commerce hosting is not included in our e-commerce development packages. The reason is that we define our custom web hosting plan at the start of development of your store (after pre-production consultation) and that we leave you freedom to chose web hosting company by yourself. In both cases we will advice you to choose the plan that could fully satisfied all your current and future technological and business needs. During planning phase of e-commerce development you will need (our help, information and consultation service is always available) make important decision about:

PrivilegeTech will work directly with you to design the user interface of the e-commerce application. In some cases we integrate the new functionality into existing web site designs and in others we create an entirely new web site. Development does not begin until the customer is satisfied with the design.

Once you have signed off on a design you are satisfied with, we begin installing your new database, web site and administrative tools. We work with you to import your product details into the new database. We also complete a full testing of the system prior to training.

We will test e-commerce site and work with your and/or your staff to ensure complete proficiency in using the administrative tools to process orders, add products and work with customer accounts. Our tools are very user friendly and offer incredible flexibility in managing your new e-commerce web site.

Upon client acceptance, we will launch the web site and perform final testing to ensure a fully functional application.