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Get E-commerce for just £10.95 per month, at a massive saving of 50% off the usual monthly price.

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E-commerce Plus for same price as regular!

For a limited time, get E-commerce Plus for the same price as regular E-commerce, with more features, support and our service level guarantee.

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Space 1GB 10GB Unlimited
Bandwidth 50GB 500GB Unlimited
E-commerce Sites 1 10 Unlimited
Free Domains No 1 3**
Email Addresses 1 1000 Unlimited
Dedicated IP Address £4.99 /month Yes Yes
Dedicated SSL
Certificate
Worth £35
£4.99 /month Yes Yes
Databases 1 5 Unlimited
Number of items & categories Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Free Shop Templates Yes Yes Yes
Uptime SLA No No Yes
Support Callbacks £4.99 /month £4.99 /month Yes
SSH Access No No Yes
Stats2 Analytics £9.99 /domain /year £9.99 /domain /year Free*
1-click installers Yes Yes Yes
MoreUK2 No No Yes
Subversion Control No No Yes
Downloadable items Yes Yes Yes
Multiple Currencies Yes Yes Yes
FTP Accounts 1 1 1
File Manager Yes Yes Yes
PHP 5.2.6 5.2.6 5.2.6
Ruby on Rails Yes Yes Yes
Perl Yes Yes Yes
CGI Yes Yes Yes
PHP Safe Mode Off Off Off
PEAR Yes Yes Yes
SuPHP Yes Yes Yes
IonCube Loader Yes Yes Yes
SourceGuardian Loader Yes Yes Yes
Zend Optimizer Yes Yes Yes
GD Yes Yes Yes
FrontPage Extensions Yes Yes Yes
phpMyAdmin Yes Yes Yes
Cron Jobs No Yes Yes
Backup Wizard Yes Yes Yes
Redirects Yes Yes Yes
Custom Error Pages Yes Yes Yes
Subdomains 5 10 Unlimited
OS Linux Linux Linux
Minimum Hardware Dual Quad Core Xeon Dual Quad Core Xeon Dual Quad Core Xeon
RAM 8GB 8GB 8GB
Backups RAID-5 &
backup every 6 hours
RAID-5 &
backup every 6 hours
RAID-5 &
backup every 6 hours
Webalizer Yes Yes Yes
AWStats No Yes Yes
Analogue Yes Yes Yes
Raw Log Files Yes Yes Yes
24/7 Support Yes Yes Yes
UK Telephone Support Yes Yes Yes
Set-up Guides Yes Yes Yes

* One domain free - via a voucher issued on signup
** One free domain with monthly and quarterly contracts

 

Shopping Cart Features

Administration

The UK2 e-commerce cart comes with easy to use administration options, including an editor on the actual page you are looking at (when logged in as the administrator).

Also included are many configurable options to make managing your online shop simple and trouble-free.

  • Choice of standard or tree navigation
  • Online admin (no software needed)
  • Unlimited products & pages
  • Unlimited departments
  • Order manager
  • Product importer
  • Contact Manager
  • Inline editor
  • Customer Manager
  • Online help guides
  • Staff management
  • File manager
  • Multiple reports
  • Localisation settings
  • Add Plugin Modules

Payment

The UK2 e-commerce cart offers visitor's to your shop a choice of payment methods to use that you as the administrator can enable or disable.

You also have a choice of premium payment gateways thanks to the free dedicated SSL certificate offered with the package.

  • Credit/Debit cards
  • Credit/Debit cards over the phone
  • EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer)
  • COD (Cash on delivery)
  • Cheque
  • Protx VSP Direct
  • Securetrading
  • VeriSign PayFlow Pro
  • Authorize.Net
  • PayPal
  • WorldPay
  • SECpay
  • Barclays

Postage & Packaging

As there are many different types of online shop that handle postage and packing costs differently the UK2 E-commerce cart comes with many built-in options.

Please see the options below for what the cart has built in.

  • Postage by weight
  • All orders have free postage
  • One rate for all orders
  • Postage based on % of total sale
  • Postage charged on a per item basis
  • Set special codes to use on products
  • Postage based on range of total order
  • Setup special rates which users can select before checkout
  • Create tracking numbers
  • Notify customers of shipping

Vat & Tax

To be a truly international shop your shopping cart needs to be flexible enough to handle any currency and tax. The UK2 E-commerce cart offers this as standard as well as already built-in options for us in the UK and EU.



  • Allow VAT/Tax on postage
  • Create VAT/Tax tables for any Country/County
  • Display products with or without VAT/Tax
  • Turn off VAT/Tax for individual products

Security

For your confidence the UK2 E-commerce cart is tested against security threats including the very latest problems, such as SQL injection. Coupled with the free SSL certificate both you and your customers can be confident their data is protected.



  • SSL Enabled
  • SQL Injection Protection
  • URL tempering
  • Parameter Manipulation
  • Sever Side Validations
  • Forget Admin Password & encryption
  • SMTP Authentication

Marketing

UK2's E-commerce cart comes with all the marketing tools you would expect and more, making it easy to maximise your earning potential.




  • Gift certificates
  • Gift wrapping
  • Site promotions
  • Sale items
  • Volume discounts
  • Membership points
  • Froogle Feeds
  • Google Analytics
  • Lead groups
  • Email campaigns
  • Plain text emails
  • HTML emails
  • SID

SEO

Search engine rankings are all important in the quest for a successful online shop, and UK2's E-commerce cart was created with this in mind.

The cart itself is written in SEO friendly PHP and gives you the control over meta information as well as offering many other tools.

  • Search engine friendly pages
  • Write your own file names (URL's)
  • Meta Title
  • Meta descriptions
  • Meta Key words
  • Alt tags
  • Dynamic Site map
  • Optimise individual products, departments & pages

Product Pages

With powerful tools such as customer reviews and wish lists there are loads of options for listing your products on the UK2 e-commerce package

These tools are designed to maximise your sales and allow customers the ease of use they expect from a professional online shop.


  • Downloadable products
  • Automated image re-sizing
  • Standard or custom propduct options
  • Manufacturer association
  • Attach (cross sell) products & articles
  • Powerful search engine
  • Postage & packing estimates
  • Customer reviews
  • Product Enquiry Form
  • Wish List
  • Stock control
  • Backorder splitting
  • Complete/Incomplete orders
  • Create product packages
  • Create product lists

Reasons to buy UK2 e-commerce

  1. We've been there, seen the film and got the t-shirt

    With domain names sold running into the millions and having been in this industry since 1998 you can trust that we'll still be here in another 10 years.

  2. We speak your language

    24 / 7 / 365 support from our friendly team of techies. We believe in good support so much that we even have special awards for the most helpful agents.

  3. We're all ears

    Many internet companies pay lip service to actually listening to customers but we even go as far as actually supplying a feedback form on our tech support ticket system. That means you get to tell us exactly what you think. You can always pick up the phone and talk to us too, we actually WANT to speak to you!

  4. We love being first

    We were the first to offer buy one get one free dedicated servers, and the first to offer completely free dedicated SSL certificates as well as 10TB servers. We were also the first to offer unlimited MySQL databases for free on shared hosting. We're not resting on our laurels though, so you can expect to see more exciting new things from us for a long time to come.

  5. We know our data centres

    With 10Gb/s connectivity and multiple-homed, clustered servers we've taken every care to make sure our systems are extremely redundant. Whether you're launching your own shop, your forum for dog grooming has taken off, or are blogging your way to stardom you can rest assured that our paranoia for the most stable technology will serve you well.

Testimonials

I have been a UK2 customer for several years. I have received consistently good service and support over that time. Most recently, through a series of on-line messages and a phone call, I was able to streamline my activities, and achieve a significant saving in business costs. Excellent!
Mark Shepherd, Dashpoet.com

I have now taken a second site from UK2net. Having no experience at all in web building etc. I found UK2 to be helpful, and what they offer to put a site together from scratch is really good. When I have problems with my site I put in a ticket, state if it is critical or not and within a very short space of time my problem is dealt with. I am really happy with the response, the action and the reliability that I need for my business. I have recommended UK2 because I have full trust that my friends will not be disappointed in their service. I only do that when I have full trust in the product.
Pat Wuelfing, Touch of Class Pottery

As a new business updating and building my site on a daily basis to be my shop window it is vital that my site is up and running 24/7 I had a problem that the site was diverting to the holding page. After trying to remedy it myself, support sorted it at 7 o'clock on a Sunday morning... top service, many thanks!
Graham, Creative-G

Once in a while you know that you have done something that is instinctively right. Being new to website hosting, as you might expect I had a few teething issues with various fields and check boxes and the 24/7 support re-contacted me quickly and helped resolve these issues in a prompt and friendly way. Encouraging for both new people hosting and the more expert designers in the marketplace. I would therefore highly recommend UK2.net to anyone think of or changing their hosting provider. Many thanks team and look forward to hosting many other sites and have already started to recommend your service.
Noel Hawkes

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