1and1 eShop Review
1 and 1 is an industry leader ecommerce web hosting company in the UK. They have easy eShop control panel, selling on eBay functionilty, flexy design choices, easy customer, order and stock management.
Home eShop: £4.99 pm (truely for a home business)
Business eShop: £9.99 pm (suggested for small businesses)
Business Pro eShop: £24.99 (Suggested for any business)
Professional eShop: £44.99 (really serious big businesses)
Go to 1and1 eCommerce (eShop) Hosting Plans Page
Setup: 1 and 1 packages come with easy Setup Wizard forEasily setup your eShop, Shop Designer for easily choosing a layout for your shop with our toolkit and adapt it to your needs, eShop Control Panel, Customisable Texts, Preview Function to view your shop before publishing
Ebay integration: It is a fascinating feature offered by 1 an 1. Not many ecommerce hosting companies offer this functionality. 1 and 1 ecommerce hosting packages include Free Image Administration for Items Offered on eBay and Scheduled Publishing for Extended selling options at eBay
Marketing Tools: 1&1 has done a great job by offering various marketing tools for your ecommerce shop, as you will come to a point to realize that setting up your online shop with hosting is just the beginning of your business online and you need a lot of targeted traffic to attract customers.
I really like 1 & 1’s marketing tools such as 1&1 Coupon Code Tool to design, perform and control coupon campaigns easily, 1&1 Ad-Efficiency Monitor to advertise more successful with price search engines, RatePoint to receive customer feedback with this powerful response tool, Pangora Product Search to promote your shop on shopping portals, Google Product Search integration to promote your items on Google product pages, Kelkoo Product Search which is another key shopping search tool and Google Sitemaps which is away to submit your new online shop’s sitemap (all product pages) to Google so that your product pages will have better chances to be indexed by Google.
eShop Management: Most of the 1 and 1 ecommerce hosting comes with various essential eshop features such as Downloadable Items if you want to sell downloadable items like ebooks, photos, music, etc. in your eShop, Stock Management, Bundle Items (Sets) for Bundles of different items, Base price calculation, Discounts, Discounts for special customers / discounts on items, Tax Calculation for national and international taxes, Support for Multiple Currencies for international business, Change Format of Numbers, Currency and Date, Logo and URL of Manufacturer to show the manufacturer’s logo and URL with an item, Changing Format of Addresses, E-mail Templates to create standard responses for all your needs.
Security of your shop: all 1and1 ecommerce web hosting packages come with free Secure Transactions (SSL) and Ready for TrustedShop Certification for which some of the other ecommerce hosting providers charge. These certificates play a crucial role in gaining the trust of your customers.
Online Payment Options: All 1 and 1 hosting packages come with PayPal integration which is a secure and reliable online payment method, Offline Payment Methods such as cheques, COD and cash, Online Payment Methods such as Sage Pay and RBS WorldPay. Here, it is an interesting feature to accept payments offline, which is not offerent most of the ecommerce web hosting providers.
Order & Invoice Management: 1and1 provides very easy administration for received orders with additional Folders for your Orders and also a very handy PDF Invoicing and Delivery Receipts functionality.
There are various other features 1 and 1 ecommerce hosting plans offer such as Recommendations (“Tell A Friend”) option and Item Overview and Item Detail with Zoom Picture. And all 1 and 1 plans come with unlimited monthly traffic allowed which is important as you will have more and more visitors coming to your online shop some point and you won’t need to upgrade your hosting plan. The webspace offered as 5, 20, 40 and 80GB are also very descent and sufficient levels for each plan.
Verdict on 1an1 ecommerce hosting: These guys really know this ecommerce shop business; they seem to have understood everything that an online shop owner would need to set up, market, manage an ecommerce website. The prices are very competitive and support is great. So, I would recommend 1and1 without any hesitation.
