Open Market Inc. said it will be making its ShopSite Express product available free to Microsoft FrontPage users.
ShopSite Express offers an easy-to-use Web-based interface for entering
product name and pricing information into an online database, along with
transaction management capabilities. Commerce-enabling a FrontPage-based Web
site will simply require dragging an order button from ShopSite Express into
FrontPage.
Financial arrangements with Microsoft were not disclosed.
“Open Market acquired ICentral and its ShopSite family of products in order to
facilitate the entry of small-to-medium sized businesses into successful
Internet commerce,” said Gary Eichhorn, president and CEO of Open Market. “In
enabling FrontPage users to quickly and easily commerce-enable their Web
sites, we are helping to create a new generation of online retail shopping
sites.”
ShopSite Express is Internet server-based software that provides a
transactional back-end to a Web site, creating a store’s shopping basket,
accepting credit cards, calculating tax and shipping, sending e-mail receipts, etc.
A FrontPage user merely needs to visit Open Market’s ShopSite Express Web site
and sign up for the free service. For FrontPage users who currently don’t have a Web site, ShopSite Express service providers offer hosting solutions.
ShopSite Express is part of Open Market’s ShopSite family of products, which
includes ShopSite Manager and ShopSite Pro. ShopSite software was developed by
ICentral Inc., which has been providing server-based Internet commerce
software for small and medium-sized merchants since November, 1995. ICentral
was recently acquired by Open Market.