eBay has long been known as a premier eCommerce site online, dominating the online auction world since the early 2000′s. In the past decade eBay has quickly grown form one mans; dream to an online auction empire, with tens of thousands of sellers, and millions of buyers, eBay is the largest marketplace online. In fact, there is seemingly no market that hasn’t been touched by eBay! With so many products and services, it seems as if it was only a matter of time before eBay ventured into the web hosting industry. Well not too long ago, they decided to just that -with ProStores.

What Is ProStores?

Ebay’s ProStores is a unique eCommerce solution that let’s you host your eBay store, or any kind of online venue, on your own website with a variety of ecommerce tools. Before offering the ProStores service, eBay offered online stores through stores.ebay.com, however after purchasing the website development software site Kurant.com, and the ecommerce super site shopping.com, eBay then decided to venture into the web hosting industry with it’s very own web hosting solution – ProStores.

What is Special About ProStores?

One of the most interesting aspects of eBay’s ProStores web hosting is the fact that you can host about 10,000 products on your site and uploading your product descriptions is as easy as creating an eBay auction. You can also automatically link your eBay auctions to your eBay ProStores account with ease. This makes creating online catalogs extremely simple, and you can even add special fields to your online catalogs that will help your customers find your products effectively. Your site visitors can easily browse your product selection using the included search function that is similar to a compact version of the eBay search function. The checkout process is also automated by an included shopping cart that lets you easily integrate your merchant account and checkout details. Customers that shop with you through your online ProStores account will feel completely secure as they’ll be using an SSL certificate that is posted on your site for their confidence.

What Kind of Support Is Offered by eBay ProStores?

eBay ProStores offers industry leading support for their eCommerce solutions. It is this support that has lead eBay itself into becoming the largest online auction site in the world. eBay makes using their ecommerce solution super simple by providing a host of setup help wizards that walk you through the process of using every aspect of the hosting solution. You can also instantly contact support at any time of the day using the simple icons that are located in your user control panel. The core of any successful eCommerce solution is competent and readily available support, and judging by the success of eBay ProStores, I think it is safe to say they offer excellent customer support.

Conclusion

If you’re looking for a way to set up your online store rather than simply hosting auctions all the time on eBay, then you may want to consider having an eBay ProStores account. By having an account with ProStores you’ll be able to safely and easily link all of your eBay auctions with your online store automatically.

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