Ashop Commerce is an Australian-based provider of hosted ecommerce software, most notably shopping cart software, which enables you to start selling your wares online.

I have visited their website, had a feel of the features and here is what I think.

The premise is very attractive for everybody with basic computing skills - you don’t need to be a techie to set up your online store and get the electronic checkout up and running. In fact, there’s no need to install anything, everything is web-based.

The design is also customisable to your own liking, meaning you can upload your own images and animations.

The standards are all here too: full integration with the major banks, gateways, 128 bit SSL, 3rd party processors. Yes, that includes PayPal too.

I like the fact that their Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is inclusive, and they’ll do this continuously, for even the basic package.

Finally, they host all shopping carts on powerful and secure infrastructure, which includes fraud alerts, 24×7 monitoring, multiple daily backups and guaranteed 99.8% uptime.

Basically, after setting up, you are ready immediately to sell online.

The signup cost is very competitive: starts at USD39.95 per month.

No wonder they’re saying “selling online has never been so easy” and that they’ve propelled literally thousands of merchants towards success.

They are so confident that they’ll even let you try their services out for 10 days without even the need to enter your credit card details!

Their confidence could probably be explained by their having won a prestigious award: the Engin Award for Best Technology in an SME for the 2006 Fuji Xerox My Business Awards. Competition was fierce: there were 27 finalists in 8 categories. This number in turn was shortlisted from more than 500 initial hopefuls.

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