The Easy Store has four pricing options:

Choose Your Own Hosting

Easy Store Builder w/ Advertising	$199.00 USD
Easy Store Builder w/ NO Advertising	$299.00 USD

Hosted By Madfire.com

Easy Store Builder w/ Advertising	$159.00 USD
Easy Store Builder w/ NO Advertising	$219.99 USD

Madfire.com offers Linux hosting at $13.95 a month with free technical support for your Easy Store builder! On top of this your store builder purchase price will be discounted almost a full years worth of hosting.

Visit our pricing page to learn more information about pricing and promotions.

Many customers choose to host with Madfire.com due to the lower cost of the software. After your store is set up, the only fee is renewal of your hosting and domain name.

There are no monthly maintenance fee's. The only costs are the initial purchase of the EasyStore and your hosting price which depends on what company you host with. Hosting with Madfire.com you can save close to one years worth of free hosting on your Easy Store purchase.

You do not need to worry about any billing, inventory, or shipping. The Easy Store works directly with Amazon. All you do is check the products you wish to sell and everything else is done for you through Amazon. When you sell your products, you let Amazon do the work and you collect your commission.

You can make up to 10% on items sold on your site. If you sell your own products on Amazon.com, you will still make commission on the product as well as what you make from Amazon.

• Click here to view commission rates on products
• Click here to view details on selling your own items

It only takes a few minutes to complete the installation process once the files are uploaded. The time will vary when uploading files. It typically takes 30 minutes to upload the files using a high speed internet connection at 100Mbps. If you wish to have your installation done for you, it normally takes between 1-2 business days.

The Easy Store customer service team will assist you in installing your software. Currently we are offering FREE installation. If you have not been contacted after your purchase and would like to take advantage of the FREE installation please contact us and we'll gladly install it or lead you through the process. The Easy Store team does not need access to your computer to install your store. Once our FREE installation period is over there will be an installation fee.

For the Amazon Easy Store, a basic Linux hosting package for $13.95 a month is efficient and will provide everything you need to run your Easy Store. You can find an economy plan by clicking here. Be sure to select Linux hosting.

Yes, you can open a store and receive commission if you live outside of the United States. If you cannot pay for your store by credit card, you may want to contact us so we can arrange another form of payment.

You may change the colors of your store with the provided templates, add banners, hompage items, featured items, add content, and change the type of font, all within the administration module. All of this is easy to customize and needs no knowledge of HTML and very minimal web skills.

Yes, you can open a store and receive commission if you live outside of the United States. If you cannot pay for your store by credit card, you may want to contact us so we can arrange another form of payment.

It's simple. All you do is install your store, customize to your liking, and sit back and let the sales take care of them self. All of your products come from Amazon.com, once someone purchases a product from your store you make a commission of up to 10% while TheEasyStore and Amazon does all the work for you.

You do not need to worry about any billing, inventory, or shipping. The Easy Store works directly with Amazon. All you do is check the products you wish to sell and everything else is done for you through Amazon. When you sell your products, you let Amazon do the work and you collect your commission.

The Easy Store Builder with no advertising allows you to change the software's original banner ads. With both versions you may add as many banners as you wish to the banner rotation, however only the version with "NO Advertising" will allow you to delete the original store banners.

You can get a customized banner on your store before or after your Easy Store is installed. A customized banner costs $89.00 and usually will be completed 1-2 business days from your request. Many people choose to get a customized banner because it is proven to increase sales on many sites.

Yes, you can sell your own products on your storefront. Simply add your products to Amazon.com's sellers program, locate the ASIN number for your product, enter the ASIN number into your homepage items box in the administration area or any featured items page and your products will be available! For information on selling products on Amazon.com visit their sellers section.

You may enter any product on your homepage and featured items box.

• Click "off" to enter your own items on the homepage. You may choose small images or medium.

• Click "how do I locate Amazon ASIN numbers?"
• Simply type in the item you would like to place in any place requesting a product ASIN number. Then choose the category the item is located under. You may pick and choose which item you would like and search for the best priced item. See below.

• Once you click "go" you'll instantly see results. For the search term "ipod shuffle" there were 726 products retrieved.

• Once you find the product you like you may place the ASIN number in any featured item box or homepage product listing.

Additionally, you can find ASIN numbers for any product on Amazon.com by looking at the product details. It may be a good idea to see what products are top sellers on Amazon.com and utilizing them on your website.

 

If you have some knowledge of html, you may customize your website further by working with the code. Here is a list of the files you may wish to edit if you have a good knowledge of php or html. (The Easy Store is not responsible for any problems associated with editing the code of your store and does not offer customer service for any related problems.)

• Homepage: index.php
• Product page: viewproduct.php
• Search result page: searchresult.php
• Homepage right side column: homeright.php
• Homepage left side column: homeleft.php
• Product page right side column: prodhomeright.php
• Product page left side column: prodhomeleft.php

 

Yes, you can sell your own products on your storefront. Simply add your products to Amazon.com's sellers program, locate the ASIN number for your product, enter the ASIN number into your homepage items box in the administration area or any featured items page and your products will be available! For information on selling products on Amazon.com visit their sellers section.

Your store will accept most major credit card companies such as: Visa, American Express, Amazon.com Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Diners Club, JCB, and Amazon Credit Accounts and Paypal. If you use the advertisement and affiliate programs built into your store you may give or receive payments using a paypal or authorize.net account

 

No, the EasyStore does not support other Amazon languages such as Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de.

The main category names are directly from amazon and cannot be changed, however the sub category names and products can be changed. You can change sub category names and products by clicking add or edit near the main category in your administrator panel.

The main navigation buttons may be changed if you have some knowledge of html and graphic design. You may make new images and replace the old ones to change the names. To do this, the image should be the same size as the one you are replacing. The buttons for each template are located in the folder: /images/the color of the template. Example: /images/blueblue to change the buttons in the blue template.

 

Yes, you can edit subcategory names, add new categories, and add specific products to your home page and featured items.

It varies, depending on how you market your site, how good your SEO (search engine optimization) and if your pages are indexed in the search engines.

Our tips below on how to increase sales on your EasyStore:

1. Good Content - content is important. Search engines love content that relates to the products you are selling. For example, if you sell computer supplies, you may want to target specific keywords relating to computer supplies, such as: cheap computer supplies, computer parts, great deals on computer supplies, etc...
   
2. Low cost per click advertising - we recommend a marketing program such as overture also known as yahoo search engine marketing. The key to gaining customers and sales is to target specific products and find a keyword for that item. It's best to find one that is lower in price when starting off. For example, if I wanted to sell an mp3 player I would look for keyword terms to advertise for such as: sandisk mp3 player or cheap ipod. It's smart not to use the highest searched word, like "ipod" or "mp3 player" due to the high cost. When starting off, try sticking to ten or twenty cents a click.
   
3. Patience - it may take quite a while for your pages to become indexed in the search engines. It may take a few weeks or months before you will start to gain return customers. You'll find that the longer your site is up, the more return customers you will receive. This also means you can spend less on advertising.

 

After logging into your store click the "next" button until you come to the Personalize My Store page. Here you will see the main categories listed. Click add or edit subcategories depending on what you would like to do.

Adding a subcategory:
After clicking add subcategory under "whichever main category you wish to edit", search for the subcategory's browsenode by clicking "Download Browse Nodes from Browsenodes.com" at the top of the page.

You can place your new subcategory under a current subcategory or place it under "none". Placing it under "none" will make it a main subcategory. Ex: Placing Live Albums under "none" would make it show up in Music under the first set of subcategories. Click "submit" to place your new subcategory.

Editing or Deleting a subcategory:
After clicking edit/delete subcategory under "whichever main category you wish to edit". On the right hand side you will see all of the subcategories under the main category you have selected. Here you can edit or delete a subcategory.

Editing a Subcategory
Click on the name of the subcategory you would like to edit.

After clicking the subcategory's name you will be able to edit the browsenode, name, or where it shows up.

Deleting a Subcategory
You can delete single or multiple subcategories by checking the box to the left of the names. After you check the subcategory click "delete" and they will no longer show up in your store.

WARNING!!! ONCE YOU DELETE A SUBCATEGORY YOU WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO GET IT BACK UNLESS YOU ADD THE SUBCATEGORIES INDIVIDUALLY. BE SURE YOU WILL NOT WANT THEM IN YOUR STORE BEFORE YOU DELETE THEM.

 

When an item is purchased, it may take a few days for Amazon to process the order and the items may not show up in your orders and purchases reports.

Most of the traffic you get will come from people who find your website on search engines such as google and yahoo. The Easy Store has dynamic scripts that take your domain name, titles, and content, and add them to the meta tags of your website. Basically this allows for search engines to index your website in their engines and allows your site to be listed when someone searches for keywords that you have in your site.

The Easy Store only accepts USD currency which may limit shipping outside of the United States. However, we plan to integrate more currency options into future versions of the Easy Store.

Before installing your software you must set folder permissions to a couple of folders in your site directory. Permissions allow you to access certain folders. There are two folders you must CHMOD (change access to folders):

1. Cache Folder: Located in the root of your storebuilder as: /cache
   
   

   

2. Uploaded images Folder: Located in the root of your storebuilder as: /uploadedImages

• Repeat the same process as you did for the cache folder for the uploadedimages folder.
• After you have completed the uploaded images folder you must do the same to all of its subfolders.
• Double click on "uploadedImages" and do the same to these folders:
  
  • /uploadedImages/advertisersImage
  • /uploadedImages/affiliateProgImages
  • /uploadedImages/headerbgmiddle
  • /uploadedImages/headerbgright
  • /uploadedImages/siteLogoImages

If you have received a "FATAL ERROR" message telling you register_globals is disabled, you must enable it in the php.ini file located in the root of your server folder. (You should log into your ftp account to view your files.)

You must open the file php.ini file and set the register globals to “on”. The easiest way to open the php.ini file is to copy and paste the file to your desktop.

• Once the file is copied to your desktop you can open it as a text file.
• Open the text file and you will see “register_globals = off”
• Replace the word “off” with “on” then save and close the file. It should look like this: "register_globals = on"
• You may now copy the php.ini file back into your ftp folder and overwrite the old one.
• You should now be able to proceed to the installation wizard. Don't forget to CHMOD your folders to 777!

When an item is purchased, it may take a few days for Amazon to process the order and the items may not show up in your orders and purchases reports.

In order to view the changes of your store, you must close all open windows and re-open your homepage. You may leave the administrator panel open if you wish.

When an Amazon.com product is purchased Amazon handles all of the shipping. If a purchase is made from a third party store on Amazon.com the store name will show in the email.