Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software and
Solutions for an Online Store

Beware of Hidden Bandwidth Fees and High Transaction Fees!

Every ecommerce software ecommerce web hosting providers will charge an additional fee that based on your web store's traffic and sales, whether it is through a hidden 'Bandwidth Fee', or through a Transaction Fee. Bandwidth Fees for an online store are considered to be hidden, because you will never know what the fee entails or how much it will be. This is why Fortune3 has chosen the Transaction Fee to measure your Ecommerce web store's traffic and use. A low transaction fee is much more convenient for merchants when using a complete and hosted Ecommerce solution, because you do not pay for traffic or bandwidth used to update your site, or for traffic that doesn't conclude in a sale, whereas with a hidden bandwidth fee, your monthly bill can suddenly increase exponentially, without having an increase in your sales or revenues (because of traffic or frequent site modifications). The Fortune3 ecommerce hosting service has the lowest transaction fee in the market. While Yahoo Store's transaction fee is 1.5%, Fortune3's transaction fee is always less than 1%, ranging between 0.3% and 0.95%, depending on your monthly sales revenue. As you sell more, the percentage goes lower. This is highly beneficial for our customers, as this very small transaction fee enables having free unlimited bandwidth and guarantees that merchants will always know what they are paying for.

The chart below represents an independent study done by Fortune3's researcg dept, showing how the Fortune3 Transaction Fee is always lower than bandwidth fees charged on average by other Ecommerce hosting providers.* As the chart demonstrates, Fortune3's Transaction Fee ends up being lower than most providers' bandwidth fees, no matter how much you sell on your site.
* Bandwidth fee study based on a merchant with a $100 average order amount.