Ecommerce Overview

Interservers provides innovative web-based e-commerce software to companies that sell products online. This software can be used by businesses to sell directly to consumers or to other businesses. Interservers provides software that maximizes your profit by focusing on increasing your revenue and decreasing your costs.

Make it YOUR store
The main theme of our e-commerce system is customization. You are able to integrate your own web sites "look and feel" throughout the purchasing process, so that you can achieve a consistent atmosphere and image through your store.

Ease of Use
Our product management tools allow you to easily and quickly create new products, maintain existing products and dictate how the products are displayed. Products are able to have options (such as color, size etc) and have additional charges such as shipping and tax applied also.

The necessary product code is generated for you, which allows you to quickly add merchant facilities to an existing web site - no programming experience required!


I have my own Shopping Cart
No Problem. You can use your own PHP/Perl based shopping cart with your InterServers account. We offer CGI/Perl access on all accounts and MySQL on the Premium account and up. However you may need some knowledge of programming to configure it with our servers. If you have already configured it on another server then you should not have any issues getting your cart running on our machines. If you have any queries about using your cart, send an email to support@interservers.com and we'll do our best to help you out.

Processing Payments

There are 3 fundamentals to selling your goods and services online:

  1. The ability to display your goods or services and record sales, typically a shopping cart.
  2. The ability to accept payments. From the easiest to the most complex they are:
    A. Have your customers print out their orders and mail them to you with a check,
    B. Use a third party "gateway" to transact credit card payments,
    C. Be your own merchant and accept credit cards yourself.
  3. The ability to transact online sales/business securely.

There are many shopping carts available, one of the best, most complete systems we've found is the Akopia Shopping cart System. We provide Akopia with every hosting account!

PayflowSM Link is the right solution for you, the merchant, if you are looking for a fast and easy way to conduct secure automated transactions over the Internet. The Payflow Link solution provides you with back-end connectivity to all leading payment processing networks and allows merchants to support multiple payment instruments, including all major credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks.

Payflow Link enables you to connect your consumers to a secure VeriSign-hosted order form and use it to automate order acceptance, authorization, processing, and the management of transactions. It's as simple as entering an HTML hyperlink into your existing Web site.

Payflow Link is the ideal choice if you process low-to-moderate levels of orders, and prefer a solution that is especially easy to implement and maintain. You will find that you can payment-enable your Web sites with little or no assistance from a Web developer.

If you process more than 1,000 transactions per month and require a scalable and fully customizable payment integration, Pay flow Pro is the ideal payment solution. If you are looking for payment services with SSL for site authentication and encryption you will benefit from our Commerce Site services.

TotalPay Powered by Authorize.Net lets your Internet-based businesses authorize, process, and manage credit card transactions without the complicated software and hardware that is normally needed to process payments over the Web.

Authorize, process, and manage credit card transactions manually from any computer that has an Internet connection and a Web browser.

The Authorize.NetTM Virtual Terminal is a secure, browser-based interface that enables businesses to authorize, process and manage credit card transactions from any computer that has an Internet connection and a Web browser. Virtual Terminal replaces standard authorization terminals or software, and provides the best solution for merchants who manually enter credit card transactions for mail or phone order sales.

Virtual Terminal suits businesses of all sizes because it reduces the complexity and expense normally associated with authorizing and processing credit card transactions. It's also much faster than standard dial-up authorization systems.

Businesses with an Authorize.Net account simply access the Virtual Terminal through our Web site using any Web browser. After logging into their Authorize.Net account using a unique user ID and a password, merchants can access the complete range of Authorize.Net services -- authorizations for purchases, credits and returns, status and activity reports, and much more.

To authorize credit card transactions, the merchant completes an electronic form that provides the Authorize.Net system with the information it needs to complete the transaction. This information is encrypted using the latest 40 or 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) 3.0 technology and is sent to an Authorize.Net host server. The server then sends the data through the authorization network to the appropriate card issuer's bank using a secure, proprietary connection. When the process is complete -- this takes around three seconds -- the merchant receives an authorization number, and the Authorize.Net server stores the transaction. Transactions are automatically settled each day and are funded within two to three business days.

Merchants can also check the status of transactions, automatically bill customers for recurring charges or run a variety of reports right from the Authorize.Net Virtual Terminal.