Certainly Yes. It has all the tools you need for your online store success. Every feature pertaining to a successful ecommerce solution is effectively well integrated and this includes separate tools for creating, hosting and secure shopping cart and number of management and promotion tools as well. These tools are quite easy to understand, operate and access and you can work in a very competitive pricing environment. All you need is a merchant account for accepting credit cards and you are ready to sell at Yahoo! Shopping and to the world of online shoppers.

Yahoo! Store gives you a simple but powerful tool to create an online store. Plan the hierarchy of your store which is very helpful from a selling point of view as most shoppers expect organized, structured and categorized listings to get a better picture and detailed information of the products they are seeking for. A successful online store will essentially have these qualities mentioned below.

Yahoo! Uses industry Standard SSL encryption for credit card information to ensure security concerns. It is applicable to fight both on the road to the buyer from Yahoo! Server and Yahoo!’s server the merchant.

Order form pages of Yahoo! Store are serviced by a secure HTTPS connection using 128-bit SSL v2/v3 Encryption. This particular starts the encoding process from the time the customer starts entering his/her credit card details in the web browsers and maintains the same till it reaches our servers. The same holds pretty much true from the time our servers send it to your merchants.

You ought to accept the Terms Of service which will be prompted to you before you go ahead with the completion of your profile in Yahoo! Store. Registration on the other hand is free and required for a period of time. However, you can cancel the contract any time as per your wish.

There are four ways to get your orders.

1. Users usually view their orders status on the web. Go to Yahoo! Store Homepage and click on the Manager Button. You’ll be prompted for a password. Once you enter the same, you can view your order status over a secure connection or environment.

   
   

2. You can retrieve orders in a database file format or files using a choice of common formats. You’ll be prompted over here once again to make your choice of course.

   
   

3. Orders can be forwarded by Fax to you.

   
   

4. Provided you have your own secure server, orders can be posted to you in real time.

As per your desires you can process orders online or through your existing in-store system at your own will or option.

You can update your site whenever you want as per your likes and requirements. Some users allow updating their sites several times within a day. However, although when you change the site or update it, viewers will be able to view only the previous version while you are at the process of updating. However, at the time of publication of the amendments, the updated version or changes incorporated by you will be reflected to your Store.

Of course yes indeed. All the stores created are a part of Yahoo! Shopping which is the largest source of shopping base for buyers on the web. Yahoo! Store enables maximum visibility for your Store to search engines and automatically engages in submitting your pages to all major and popular search engines. As a proof for your belief, a recent test made by Internet World Magazine, a site made or supported with Yahoo! Store has more than 14 times as many page views as an act with number 2 online store tool.

It only takes 5 steps to do the required or necessary.

1. Log into your Store Manager.

   
   

2. Click Account Info on the right hand side of your screen.

   
   

3. At the bottom of the following page, you’ll find a link stated Exit Survey. Click on it and fill in the survey questionnaire form so that we can learn why you are shutting down our services for enhancing and improving services in the future for future clients as well. This allows us to develop a more efficient and better platform enabling better performance.

   
   

4. The Store will be automatically closed and your account deactivated 5 days from the time you filled out the Exit Survey.

   
   

5. However, closing your Store in the middle of your monthly billing cycle, the charges will still apply or last for the entire month.