Our transaction information system, like our payment system utilises Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology with 128 bit encryption, making it virtually impossible for any unauthorised parties to gain access to any information that you send to us.

We provide Thawte certificated SSL services to give you complete peace of mind when shopping with eButtonz. 128 bit encryption is so secure that, until recently, the Pentagon classed it as a munition and refused to allow its use outside the USA.

What other e-commerce companies (and the banks) don't tell you...

You hear all the time about the risk to e-shoppers from hackers (in fact the risk is greatly overstated) but what about the risk of your "customers" ripping you off? How easy is it for a shopper to change the price of a product before they get it to the till? In the old days of sticky price labels it was very easy. Barcode technology changed all that. How strange then, that the new technology of e-commerce has made it possible again. With most plug-in e-commerce software, including software designed and sold by leading banks, it is even easier to change the price in the web form than it was to swap a label. OK, the thief needs to be a little better informed - but he has the luxury of time and no cameras or eagle-eyed shopkeepers watching him. And will you have the time to check the detail of every processed transaction to make sure the price was right?

Why do you so rarely hear about this aspect of e-crime? Because there are hardly any solutions within reach of small businesses. Before barcode readers, everyone made do with sticky labels and making sure the till staff knew the correct prices.

In the past, the solution (for those who could afford it) was to host your pages with the e-commerce company and have their programs create your pages anew each time a shopper visits. This sounds elegant but it has many drawbacks. You are not in control; your pages become hard to update; often you are forced into using the e-commerce company's page design (albeit you can change background colours and add your own logo!); but worst of all these pages do not physically exist and therefore cannot be indexed by search engines. Who will come to your shop if your pages don't come up on search engines? (Click here for search engine promotion).

eButtonz (of course!) is different. Prices are not transmitted from your website so thieves can fiddle to their heart's content - but it will get them get nowhere. Instead, you update prices by logging on to our secure, encrypted, password-protect admin service. Your product pages stay always on your own site - they are as easy to update as ever and, most importantly, search engines can gather every word. If you sell purple bangdoodles, anyone who wants a purple bangdoodle will be able to find you through Yahoo! AltaVista, and all the rest. How is this possible? Well... that's the magic that makes eButtonz different!

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