Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
If you want to make it big in the burgeoning electronic marketplace, check out eMerchant pro to get your feet wet. For a very small investment, you get everything you need--except a brilliant idea. Once you've got that idea, pop open the box and get started. You'll find plenty of templates inside to get you started designing the major parts of your site. You can catalog thousands of inventory items, register a domain name (free!), and set up your first three months of Web hosting (also free)--all in the first few minutes after installation. From there, you can begin to provide audio, video, and snazzy graphics to show off your products or services and easily start attracting customers from the far reaches of the planet.

Through the unfortunately named, but powerful Telemarketing feature, you can communicate directly with live customers and tailor your sale nearly as well as face to face; this is a significant advantage for the little guy. Through various cool reporting tools, you can observe site traffic, adjust your content, and improve sales all with a few mouse clicks. You don't have to be a computer techie or a marketing whiz to make it all work either; eMerchant pro has excellent tutorials to guide you along every step of the way (except for that brilliant idea).

Process credit card information securely, use shopping carts, calculate taxes and shipping charges automatically, control your inventory on the fly--there's so many features attached to eMerchant pro that it's hard not to think they're trying to pull a fast one. Over time, you'll see that if you've got something other folks want, this package is a transparent means of doing commerce. Medium- and large-scale businesses will want to move on, but if you're just starting out or just moving your small business online, then by all means find a need and fill it with eMerchant pro. --Rob Lightner

Amazon.com Item Description:
Create effective e-commerce Web sites. Catalog thousands of items with secure online transaction technology. Easily create and update a secure e-commerce Web site. Step-by-step wizards show how to get your business online in about an hour. Showcase your services and products with animations, photos, sounds, and videos. Communicate directly with online customers. No design or technical experience required.



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Rating: - * eMerchant via SMC ... Once you are hooked by the 'quick, inexpensive' way to get a website, you will find it neither quick nor inexpensive. They take control over your credit card, and your site. You must host through them. The come-on price changes drastically after you have signed on, and the promised free first 30 days is free becuase they make sure they don't get you up and running till at least 31 days after the start date. You can leave messages, ask questions, email "coaches", and they take their sweet time answering, or even getting back to you. THis company has no integrety. If anyone hears of any action taken against them, please notify me. They prey on the hopes of people already in debt. Rating: - * Advertising not very truthful and very misleading ... I purchased the program based on the information available on the box and the information I could find at the time on the internet. Nothing is stated that you have to use their service to host and you are stuck with monthly fees. This is only available when you open the box and discover you paid a lot for something you have to continue to pay for. Sort of like that gates fellow does only worse. lol. I was not happy with this mandatory hosting fee and consider it very misleading on the surface. I see that many people quote happiness with the easibility but I would not even venture further after discovering the additional money I must pay in order for the software to perform. Not a good advertising ploy but possibly effective if you figure in the statistics of it all. Looking at the reviews it does seem to work for some people. Rating: - * eMerchantPro has terrible customer service ... I've used eMerchantPro for about 18 months. The product is simple to use and quickly produces a professional looking website. The shopping cart works really well. The inventory and order notification works great. I have been pretty satisfied. However, THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS AWFUL!!! If you have a technical problem or a question- you are on your own. They don't reply to emails and you will sit on hold until you give up. Don't try to copy any strange graphics or links (eg hit counters, links to Amazon, etc) into one of your webpages or it will lock up everything and you won't be able to edit your pages. Rating: - * evaluando software ... estoy buscando un producto y seria bueno que estas paginas sean en español. favor si alguien sabe de un producto similar para el sistema operativo linux. Rating: - * Great but... ... This is a great product---I was really impressed with the ease with which one could customise it. The templates were superb. I was able to create a business site in an evening. The only downside to the product is that you are FORCED to host your site with the owners of the product. I had a website before I bought the product, and I wasn't ready to have two different websites. If you don't have a business site and you are ready to host your site with the owner of the program, this is probably the best product there is. However, if you are trying to upgrade an existing site with ecommerce capabilities, this might not be suitable for you--unless of course you are ready to pay for two sites at the same time.