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- Freewebs Sarah Lumbard, 301-960-9038 FreewebsEditor@Freewebs.com Freewebs, the company that helps people create a web presence with its free and easy website building platform (www.freewebs.com), recently launched Web Stores, the newest addition to its extensive catalogue of tools. Web Stores enables small and home-based business owners to create their own online store and manage the shopping and checkout process from
beginning to end. For the increasing number of home-based businesses using the web to access the world, Web Stores now provides the opportunity to reach online consumers with a professional looking online store and matching website.
"We have seen more and more of our clients using Freewebs for small and home based businesses, from dog breeders to artists through to realtors and lawyers. Our Web Stores application simplifies people's ability to sell online," says Haroon Mokhtarzada. "Millions of our members run their small or home-based businesses website with Freewebs. Until now, most of them have had to use external services such as eBay for online transactions, which charge a fee on every item listed. At Freewebs we believe every one of our clients should have control and be able to build the website they need, for work or even as a hobby."
WEB STORE DESCRIPTION
Webs Stores offers a full line-up of features for ease of use, uncomplicated set-up and simple upkeep. Users upload a photo of their product, write a description and the price, and connect to their PayPal account for payment. Additional features include:
-- Categories & Options: For the utmost customer ease, Web Store owners can organize products in categories as well as add options for product features such as color and size and product labels including new, coming soon, and sold out.
-- Consistent Design & Customized Messaging: To continue the personalization that Freewebs is known for, an owner's Web Store matches their web site design. Store owners can also create their own payment complete and payment cancelled page messages.
-- Shopping Cart & PayPal: With the shopping cart feature, buyers can manage their cart while browsing through the site, and with the simplicity of PayPal, transactions can be made quickly and securely.
Lucky for users, this is just the beginning for the Web Stores application. Additional enhancements are being made on a regular basis, many from user requests, in order to enhance ease of use and user satisfaction, including multiple photos per product and Google Checkout.
Freewebs is in constant contact with users and regularly releasing new features and enhancing existing ones. Web Stores is the most recent release following Video Galleries which launched in April 2008 and Photo Galleries, launched in March.
About Freewebs:
Freewebs provides the personal publishing platform for free to anyone who wants to build their own website, for business or just for fun. With over 20 million websites built to date it is the leading publisher of its kind. Freewebs continues to develop new and innovative applications, to meet the growing needs of its clients and changing usage of the Internet. From small business and professional portfolios to personal wedding sites, fan clubs, school, scouts and sports team sites, Freewebs is helping people easily, affordably and effectively achieve an online presence. Founded by four brothers in 2001, Freewebs is a privately held company based in Silver Spring, MD.
New Tools Help Boost Small and Home-Based Business by Putting them
in Control of their own E-Commerce Website
