Thursday, May 27, 2010

Do E-tailing pay TAX?


During last recession many retailers face to low revenue and high tax. Therefore they are interested to start internet retailing because there is not any law or inconvenience from law tax but nowadays new California and some other states in U.S.A legist new law related to Retailer commission and tax. One of commission name is commission Junction.

Commission Junction is opposed to certain Internet retail tax bills currently being proposed in several states. We have joined with the California Taxpayers' Association and have signed a letter with other large businesses in the state, opposing the proposed bill in California. For example Amazon taxes also do not "level the playing field" between brick-and-mortar and online businesses; the laws actually mandate disparate burdens on online businesses. Litigation over the constitutionality of Amazon taxes is ongoing, with scholars on the left and right disputing their wisdom and legality.


Friday, May 14, 2010

what is benefit of E-signature?


Every day, millions of customers pay for purchases by credit card.

Customers who know you well may be less concerned about the law but the law may help building trust among those who don’t. But dramatic rise in identity theft, the ever pressing need to provide convenience in checkout services to attract and retain loyal customers, and the growing use of multi-function signature captures devices in the retail sector provides favourable conditions for the deployment of dynamic signature verification (DSV) in retail settings.

Consumers are already comfortable with signatures. It is the most natural way to sign for goods and services whether it’s a credit card receipt, drivers license or even a mortgage.

Employee use benefits the retailer through:
• Fraud protection
• Reduction in credit card theft
• Reduces cash theft
• Reduces charge backs
• Cost reduction through the elimination of paper
based processes
• Copying, filing and shipping of forms to and from
Corporate
• Processing new hire paperwork in hours not days
• Immediate changes, additions & deletions to
exiting employee records
• 100% legibility and completeness of all
documents
• 100% assurance to management that a signature
is that of the employee
• Accelerated checkout process
• Increased private label credit card use
• Eliminating IT management’s time associated
with password management
• Eliminating misuse of employee passwords
• Increased productivity for front end scheduling
• Extensive audit trail of all employees that have
signed into a register or other electronic systems
• Eliminate product theft in shipping and receiving
Consumer use benefits the retailer through:
• Fraud protection
• Reduction in credit card theft use
• Accelerated checkout process
• Increased private label credit card use
• Cards not required at POS

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Trust is most important item for shopping online...



Many traditional brick and mortar business enterprises have created an online presence, which allows their customers to literally shop 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Commercial dark side has become known as cybercrime and has taken on many forms that affect the perceptions of the way we shop online. Such as credit-card fraud or not receiving the correct products/lack of adequate return policies.

So corporations should realize that these threats to their online businesses have strategic implications to their business future and take proper measures to ensure that these threats are eliminated or significantly reduced so that consumer condense in the Internet as an alternative means of shopping is maintained. These counter measures, coined as cybersecurity, have been developed to ensure the safety of consumer privacy and information allow for a carefree shopping experience.