When you consider the work you've put into building your products and making them ready for sale, you shouldn't have to work that hard to get them sold.
You might think that simply providing a shopping cart will get the job done - but selling requires more than simply accepting credit cards. You need to be able to find the customers you're selling to; ensure that they don't drop out of the buying process halfway; then keep in touch of them to ensure they become valuable, long-term partners. And in the long-term, you need to understand what does and doesn't work for your business, so you spend your investment dollars wisely on products that will sell.
Plimus understands that there is a whole lifecycle to running a succesful e-commerce business, and we provide the tools and capabilities you need to not only make sales, but to grow your business and expand into new markets successfully.
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Accept payments from credit cards, checks, EFT, wire transfer, local currency bank transfers, and purchase orders in up to 27 distinct currencies, with local taxes and fees calculated automatically. Receive payments via check, direct deposit, wire transfer, PayPal or Plimus prepaid card on the 15th of each month. |
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| Get Customers | Close Business |
Plimus gives you access to a fully managed affiliate program. You can sign up your own affiliates through your site, as well as letting them find you through the Plimus service. You set your own commission rates, approve or disapprove individual affiliates, and can allow them to run their own discount and coupon promotions - without impacting your price, as their discounts are based off their reduced price, not your rack rate. Plimus maintains our own store, which we market aggressively - you can find us through Google. Plimus simply acts as an affiliate for you, driving business to your product. And of course, as an affiliate, we receive the commission rate you assign us. One of the best ways to encourage customers to buy is to offer them a special deal - use a coupon to offer a special price or deal for a limited time to drive sales. Plimus offers an extensive set of capabilities that allow you to use this tactic, and to track its effectiveness. |
Your customers should feel they're doing business with you, not with us. That's why you have complete control to make your payment pages look like the rest of your site; to edit the text of payment-related system e-mails; and to deliver newsletters through the Pliumus capability that brand your business, not ours. In addition, you can have the payment pages delivered through a sub-domain No customer wants to do business in a foreign language - so we help you to present your products in over a dozen languages. Using their IP address to guide us, we automatically present information in the right language (always providing, of course, the ability to switch to another), removing language issues as a barrier to buying. Sometimes customers want to talk their purchase over - but don't want to make a phone call. In this case, you can use the free live assistance tool: a chat interface you simply add to your website, which allows you to chat in real time. This is a service that can be expensive purchased separately - but is free with Plimus! Don't lose sales just because your customer isn't ready to pay full-price yet. Use our included Subscription Licensing features to ensure your customers can buy on a lease-to-own basis, to buy as a membership or any of a number of imaginative ways that capture their business without the limitations of pricing. Popular throughout Europe, local currency bank transfers allow your shoppers to keep control of their financial information. Accepted in 40 countries, covering 27 distinct currencies, this option will make your store more attractive globally. |
| Extend Customer Relationship | Extend Your E-Business |
You never want to lose a sale just because there's nobody available to take a phone call or receive a fax. That's why Plimus Support is there for you, around the clock, ensuring every customer inquiry is met with help. Already you can provide licensing that fits the needs of your customers with Plimus Subscription program. Coming soon, track the usage of your products (licensed or not!), and provide the licenses that really drive business. When your customers let you know what they really want, you can hardly fail to position your products for great sales numbers! |
• Reports
Everybody wants to be able to tell, on a moment's notice, how their product is selling. Plimus provides extensive reporting, designed around the needs and stated requirements of tens of thousands of vendors. Need something we don't already have? Let us know, and we'll get it built. It's all very well to simply track what's happening - but how's about examining what works best? Analyze the effectiveness of different license types, promotions and affiliate program settings to understand exactly what drives sales for your unique business. After you've put in all the time to build a product, you need to know that you're not geting robbed blind by software pirates! We provide a free license management solution, which ensures that license keys are being used only by those users who are properly licensed. Coming up soon, you'll be able to ratchet this up and down - allowing for a little more flexibility when you're trying to get your product out there (say, letting a license key get used four or five times before failing), then clamping down once the product starts to gather steam. |
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We manage online businesses for thousands of vendors, tens of thousands of affiliates and millions of end customers. Our e-commerce solution is designed to help independent companies of all sizes to grow e-business revenues, and to reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation.