Vendors - Friday, March 28, 2008 14:53 - 2 Comments

EC Suite - A New E-Commerce Platform for mISVs

[Note: This is another in a series of posts by vendors I've invited to write a guest post here because they have something to offer of value to microISVs. EC Suite is a family-owned, 12 year veteran e-commerce processing comany. If you have a product or service that helps microISVs succeed and would like to do a guest post here, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com.]

By Russell Nyland
Account Executive for EC Suite

Bob wanted to give us the chance to introduce ourselves to the community; some of you may already be familiar with the company name from trade shows or have seen me posting on BoS over the last few months. I work with the Business Development division of http://www.ecsuite.com, an e-commerce platform for digital content including software, media, and information.

I’ve seen a lot of concern about new processors being small, fly-by-night operations or just waiting to be acquired by larger competitors, so I think the best place to start would be a brief explanation of where we came from.

EC Suite was originally founded to help local companies sell digital products online; we quickly expanded to establish an international presence providing payment processing, merchant account and gateway services to North America and Europe. We currently have about 300 employees at our headquarters, data center, and support center buildings in Tempe, AZ as well as branch offices in Boston, MA, and Malta, EU. The EC Suite family includes our web hosting division (which also provides IP transit and CDN) as well as DRM Networks, an authorized Microsoft DRM Service Provider. This makes us the first fully-integrated DRM solution with a billing system.

Each new area of the company was developed to meet a need from online businesses that the market could not yet meet, and after 12 years, we now support over 22,000 websites.

EC Suite is a private, family-owned company. You’ll never see us getting bought out or buying up smaller companies and cheapening their name in order to satisfy a stockholder’s bottom line. Our revenue dollars have always gone back into new development, and helping new/small businesses sell their products online has become our expertise. As such, we have added a few interesting features to the normal e-commerce toolbox of a third party processor that will distinguish our focus on new technology and innovation.

Recurring Billing

We’re one of the largest online subscription processors in the US. Our Recurring Billing and License Revocation features specifically pertain to software-as-a-service (SaaS).
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