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While the web is a great place to showcase your products and services, it's an even better place to SELL them. Direct Knowledge has been building e-commerce software and websites since 1996. We build e-commerce websites that your customers will find attractive, capable and easy-to-use. We create e-commerce solutions that make it easy for you to manage both your offerings and your customers' transactions.

Online Stores
For many companies, online selling has become a major part of the business; for some, it is the most important part of the business. Direct Knowledge understands all of the facets of online selling, including catalog development, inventory management, payment processing, and retail marketing.

Direct Knowledge has developed e-commerce systems that have powered many online stores. To address the unique requirements of each of our customers, we make use of several 'best-in-class'

commercial e-commerce systems. We will help you design and implement an effective e-commerce solution. We will help you attract customers to your store, encourage them to make a purchase, and convince them to return again and again.

Subscriptions, Registrations, Renewals
Increasingly, your members and customers are willing and sometimes even eager to manage their subscriptions, registrations and renewals online. We will build a 'custom web application' to present your signup options and, as needed, we will integrate this application with your existing member/customer databases. We will also integrate the signup/renewal process with our 'payment processing system' to enable secure credit card processing for signup & renewal transactions.

Payment Processing Systems
Payment processing is a crucial part of any e-commerce system. Both you and your customers need to have confidence that transactions are processed quickly, accurately and securely. We can help you implement any of several solutions ranging from 'offline credit card processing' to 'real-time credit card processing' (via services such as Verisign or Authorize.net). We can also help you collect payments via PayPal or integrate PayPal into your e-commerce system so that your customers can submit payments to each other (for applications such as auctions).

Security & Privacy
Our e-commerce websites are secured via industry-standard SSL encryption, online credit card / address verification, and a variety of application-level authorization and security mechanisms.