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Dropship Tips: Facebook’s Payvment Might Be a Great eBay Alternative!

We are hearing more and more success stories from disgruntled eBay dropship sellers who, weary to the bone of the seller unfriendly policies and ever-increasing exorbitant fees on eBay, are turning to Facebook’s Payvment to sell their products!

If you are unfamiliar with Payvment, here are a few factoids straight from Facebook:

• “Quick storefront creation for your Facebook "Fan" page (under 15 minutes - we timed it!)

• Completely integrated shopping experience –You no longer have to try and drive traffic off Facebook

• Integrated product search enabling discovery of your items across Facebook

• Network wide shopping cart, Powered by Payvment's "Open Cart Network" technology, enables your customers to complete their purchase from any storefront on Facebook practically eliminating abandoned shopping carts

• Add your storefront to an unlimited number of Facebook pages

• Sell in over 20 supported world currencies

• HTML support for storefront homepage customization

• TRUSTe certified

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Product Management

• Add an unlimited amount of items to your Facebook store

• Automated inventory control enables one-off items and automatic suspension of items when sold out

• Item Image Uploader

• Unlimited item category support

• Product option variables including optional custom text field support for item personalization

• Manual and automatic "Featured Item" selecting for featuring specific products on your Facebook store home page

• Product page customization using simple HTML

• Support for multiple sales/use tax regions (US State, UE Vat and country specific taxes) with item override capability.

Integrated Revenue/Payment System

• No merchant account required (all you need is a standard or business PayPal account to collect your sales revenue)

• Consumer purchasing from your store via PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Amex or Discover

• Accepts payment in over 20 world currencies with automatic Foreign Exchange Rate conversion

• Instant email receipts sent to your customers after purchase

• Built-in Sales tracking and order management

• Your sales notifications sent via email or use Payvment's IPN Instant Payvment Notification- IPN enables your Facebook store to be tied into your current order fulfillment systems and/or CMS

Domestic & International Shipping Features

• Built-in support for UPS shipping methods and rates - a UPS account is not required.

• Flat Rate shipping option with quantity discounting

Marketing/Promotion Features

• Enable storefront wide instant discount for those who "Like" your Facebook page. A great way to incentivize Facebook users to become "Fans" of your page!

• Store/Item "Share" feature enables Facebook users to tell all their Facebook friends about an item they like in your store via their Facebook news feed. Includes a link back to your Facebook store

• Built-in review/commenting integration enables Facebook users to leave a comment about an item in your store and post it to their Facebook news feed.

Optional Enterprise Integration

• Connect your Facebook store's inventory and sales management to your own systems using Payvment's Developer Web Services.”

Plus, unlike eBay who offers virtually nothing in the way of real customer support, Payvment has free 24/7 web support and optional enterprise support.

Facebook’s Payvment is FREE! No listing fees. No final value fees. And last but certainly not least, a customer base of over 500 million!

Check out Facebook’s ecommerce solution today for your online dropship sales or other ecommerce store!

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