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E-commerce sites are difficult, expensive, and tedious to build. Privacy, security, transaction handling, order monitoring and delivery confirmation functionality present a significant barrier of entry for most small companies.

There are many pre-built platforms that are expensive and either time consuming to customize or leave you with a cookie cutter site that lacks originality. Wouldn’t it be nice to take your existing web site and add e-commerce functionality? Wouldn’t it be great if this only took a few hours to accomplish? Amazon has just released that functionality.

Amazon’s Pay Now Widgets

Your customers can now purchase items on your site and enjoy the security and features of an Amazon.com purchase. Amazon’s simple “Pay Now Widgets” allow you to add a checkout component to any web site. The customer will finish the order in the Amazon environment.

Amazon Web Services recently released an easy tool to integrate with Amazon Flexible Payment Service (Amazon FPS). The “Pay Now” Widget provides a simple HTML interface allowing anyone to accept Amazon Payments on their Web site. Utilizing Amazon FPS, the “Pay Now” Widget lets you set the price and payment rules, while giving your customer access to a familiar Amazon payment experience and fraud protection.
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Other E-Commerce options

• Yahoo! Small Business - Recently updated e-commerce platform and site builders used by millions of shoppers every day
• X-Cart - easily configurable e-commerce platform. You should have a security professional, such as Bayside Networks, review your site before launching a site with a widely used platform such as this. Its popularity invites hackers to exploit any weaknesses.
• Paypal Widgets - Paypal offers an equally easy-to-use widget for adding e-commerce functionality. This is still in beta testing but should be a great alternative to Amazon.