Verio Unveils E-commerce Hosting Bundles for Small and Midsize Businesses

New Hosting Packages Empower Small Businesses to Build & Manage Their Own Professional Online Stores with ShopSite

HostReview.com
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; 03:57 AM

Centennial, Colo. – Verio Inc., a leading provider of business solutions online, including hosting, applications and managed services, today announced new eStorefront e-commerce Web hosting packages to help small and midsize businesses get their online stores up and running quickly with ShopSite® shopping cart. Designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of online businesses, the new functional e-commerce hosting plans are part of Verio’s award-winning Signature line of hosted solutions.

Verio’s packaged e-commerce solutions are based on ShopSite 8.3, the latest version of the shopping cart solution, which offers customers improved usability and additional functionality, giving smaller shops everything they need to enable their business online. More experienced administrators can use the advanced interface to further customize the way their store looks and works. ShopSite also offers volume pricing options, product search and customer registration.

Verio ShopSite-enabled plans give small and midsize businesses an intuitive and easy-to-use shopping cart to run a successful online store. ShopSite features the latest innovations in online transactions and security, including integration with Google Checkout™, Visa CISP/PABP validation, PayPal® and eBay® auction integration, as well as Fedex shipping integration.

Verio’s variety of new e-commerce packages cater to varying knowledge levels, online shop sizes and feature requirements. For example, eStorefront Starter was designed with the novice in mind, and is geared toward small businesses just getting started with selling online. The web hosting plan comes with online marketing capabilities to help increase site traffic. eStorefront Business is aimed at businesses that sell less than 15 products on their website, and offers the ability to commerce-enable an existing website. At the higher-end, eStorefront Developer is one of the most complete start–to–finish shopping carts available on the market, and can handle a wide variety of products, produce detailed sales and traffic statistics and offers many more features.

“Just as no two fingerprints are the same, our small business customers have completely different requirements when it comes to building and managing online e-commerce presences,” said Dennis Boyle, chief operating officer for Verio. “With these new e-commerce packages, we have combined our intimate knowledge of small business hosting needs with our unparalleled e-commerce solutions. The result is a range of excellent e-commerce businesses services that are scalable, easy-to-use and can be matched to virtually any size small or medium business customer.”

Verio was recently awarded a top spot in the "E-commerce Web Hosting Provider" category for the 2007 Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Awards by readers of the news site, which is part of the JupiterWeb network. More information is available at http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/news/article.php/3655761.

Pricing and Availability

Verio e-commerce hosting packages are available immediately to customers and partners worldwide, with pricing starting at US $20.95 per month. More information on Verio e-commerce hosting solutions can be found at http://www.verio.com/ecommerce-hosting-solutions/

About Verio

Verio Inc. enables companies to conduct business online, through hosting, applications and managed services serving the business needs of SMB companies and partners worldwide, and is a subsidiary of NTT Communications, which provides complementary global network access reaching over 200 countries worldwide. The company focuses on how to help companies and partners achieve their business goals with functional hosting solutions, applications and services that enable them to drive success online. Verio supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT Communications Global IP Network, and provides business solutions to customers and partners in more than 146 countries. More information can be found at www.verio.com.