Selling online? We've got you covered

Online retail is one of the largest growing units of sales in the world right now – and is fast becoming a major source of income. But, due to the ‘newness' of the technology, it is critical to ensure that any company adopting processes to sell online are ahead of the compliance curve and are supported in their sales effort by a solid system such as Managed File Transfer.

Elements of the best functions of retail

One of the critical elements of the functions that retail online provide is to ensure that their documentation is solid. It's important to ensure that any compliance need is met, but also that it's easy to send purchase or sales orders to people – giving an extra layer of security will ensure that your company is well regarded and trusted with public and private data. One way to do this is MFT, as it is designed to support and work with clients, not against them. There are a range of integratable solutions that can be used alongside reports produced by ecommerce or specialised scripts. It's just as important to ensure that your company understands the role MFT will fulfil, so that it can be customised and supported into the exact niches and needs of your business.

Understanding the needs of online retail

Much like physical retail, there are a lot of areas that MFT can work with and around, whether it's the automatic integration of receipt mailing, or around sharing purchase orders and invoicing with suppliers – online retail needs to be carefully managed. While SSL supports the actual transactions, keeping the data secure after is a task best left to MFT, as its encryption and decryption, plus email support makes it an ideal and often overlooked solution.

Compliance and data protection- without barriers

One of the major areas that ecommerce solutions of all kinds are currently coming under fire for is the compliance issues that they may face now, or are already breaching. As it becomes more apparent that online retail uses a diverse and sometimes divisive group of methods to garner sales, keeping sales reports, money and shipping tracked becomes crucial – which means there are many levels of data to protect. Integrating MFT with receipt issue, and affiliate invoicing can often ensure that compliance is met, before the major rules are introduced in this area and can give the company the opportunity to support the timely expiration of paperwork, while still offering the best support for current information.

Compliance also extends to the customer end – whether shipping or ordering a batch postage or courier for the physical goods or logging and processing sales, supplying tax or other information to an accountant or for evidence in a business loan, MFT can support your company in creating a great online presence with solid retail potential.