AutomatedShops and ShopZone simply make good cents!

AutomatedShops knows what it takes to run an ecommerce web site and have designed our hosting packages to meet your real world needs. We've analyzed what our customers have required and include enough disk space for all your product images, PDF files and applets that are typically associated with each Small, Medium or Large hosting account. Additionally, we factored in enough bandwidth to meet the needs of the more demanding graphical web sites that are required to entice today's ecommerce customers. The  AutomatedShops hosting packages are fully featured and there is never a setup fee!

Compare this with our competitors that charge more per month and provide less storage and download bandwidth for your money. Add up all of the rest of their setup fees, ad-hoc additional storage and transfer charges and costs quickly escalate! It doesn't take long before you realize the difference in cost, value and performance that AutomatedShops delivers.

Why keep paying for hosted server based software you'll never own?

The TRUE Cost of Ecommerce
Compared to hosted ecommerce solutions where you continue to pay for your ecommerce software forever, month after month, ShopZone a bargain! ShopZone's entry level product starts at $195 and the high end version may sound expensive with an initial sticker price of $995 but that's only $82.92 a month if you spread the cost over the course of the year and AutomatedShops. The price difference and savings become very significant after your first year online saving an average of $600 a year for small stores and in several cases saving over $6,000 a year for large stores.

Maintain your investment
With ShopZone you actually own your own online store so you maintain your investment in your customized ecommerce web site. Relocating a ShopZone store can take as little as an hour by simply republishing your web site to a new web hosting account. Since you own your store you can go anywhere you need to get the performance and service your site demands.

Moving your store from a dedicated server based ecommerce solution that's hosted by the ISP can be a problem. Most of the major ISPs use different incompatible ecommerce software such as InterShop, Mercantec, OpenSite, Miva and others. ShopZone sites are truly portable and you keep your investment in your online store regardless of where you host.

Comparing Apples and Oranges
Keep in mind that the comparison chart below was simplified based on actual displayed prices so a few large store ecommerce solutions may initially compare favorably in price. However, once you compare the features and start adding up all of the additional fees for extra disk storage, data transfer, setup fees and other miscellaneous charges to meet the AutomatedShops account specifications it starts to quickly get more expensive.

Rate Information
The comparative rates posted below were are obtained from publicly displayed prices and rate tables found on the on respective web sites on 12/14/02. See our online store for AutomatedShops current hosting prices. Package options were confirmed with the respective account representatives to make sure that we didn't misrepresent that a separate web hosting account was required for an additional fee. We tried to compare costs with the minimum store price hosting from 500 products when possible or the next comparable account.

SMALL STORE

MEDIUM STORE

LARGE STORE

Autotmated Shops Hosting/NO SETUP FEE (prices may change)

$39.95

$59.95

$149.95

One time purchase of ShopZone starting at $195 for 100 products

$395.00

$695.00

$695.00

Items per store recommended with account size

500

2,000

unlimited*

Disk Space included with account

100MB

200MB

500MB

Data Transfer included with account

5GB

10GB

20GB

Free Shared SSL without buying a certificate

YES

YES

YES

Unlimited Email Accounts, Forwards and Auto-Responders

YES

YES

YES

Control Panel, Web Based Email, Web Stats

YES

YES

YES

   Yahoo Store (prices may change)

$99.95

$249.95

$549.95

Items per store - large account based on 5,000 items as there was no unlimited account price listed at the time of our survey

500

2,000

5,000

Separate Hosting Fee

$49.95

$49.95

$49.95

Product Cost Per Month 
$0.10 per item per month, 0.5%-3.5% transaction fee

$50.00

$200.00

$500.00

Total Monthly Cost Per Store

$99.95

$249.95

$549.95

ShopZone Savings over Yahoo Stores / Month

$60.00

$190.00

$400.00

   Earthlink Stores (prices may change)

$49.95

$99.95

$99.95

Items Per Store - smaller accounts are very limited with only 50 or 100 products so we compared with the 100 product store minimum

100

unlimited

unlimited

Disk Space (comparable account sizes based on products)

300MB

500MB

500MB

Total Monthly Cost Per Store

$49.95

$49.95

$99.95

Shopzone Savings over Earthlink Stores / Month

$10.00

$50.00

($-50.00)

   Verio Stores (prices may change)

$74.95

$74.95

$124.95

Items Per Store - smaller accounts are very limited so we compared with the 100 product store minimum

100

100

unlimited

Disk Space

250MB

250MB

300MB

Total Monthly Cost Per Store

$74.95

$74.95

$124.95

ShopZone Savings over Verio Stores / Month

$35.00

$15.00

($-25.00)

   XO(prices may change)

$69.95

$84.95

$410.95

Items per store (only offers unlimited products per store)

unlimited

unlimited

unlimited

Disk Space

100MB

200MB

500MB

Hosting Account 

$34.95

$49.95

$375.95

Total Monthly Cost Per Store (includes ecommerce $35/month)

$69.95

$84.95

$410.95

Savings over XO Stores / Month

$30.00

$25.00

$261.00

    ShopZone is a one time fee so monthly hosting is all you pay for at AutomatedShops

1. Unlimited items is roughly 15,000 on shared ISP space, 50,000 on a dedicated server, hundreds of thousands with an         Oracle server upgrade

2. Automated Shops Gives 500MB space and 50GB transfer with the large store