osCommerce purchases and SSL certificates
A client has asked today if they needed an SSL certificate installed on their web site. They use WorldPay, so for secure payment processing they do not actually need SSL that much. One of their web masters suggested they didn’t need an SSL certificate at all.
No surprise though some of the end customers emailed them from time to time asking about if it was secure to buy from them, and telling they (the customers) would not buy a thing from a web site which is not secure.
Our advise to the client was: get an SSL certificate installed as soon as possible, secure User Account pages and the Checkout pages, and put a seal explaining the end customers the site is a safe place to buy products online and their account and payment information is secure.
The SSL seal may appear under the Shopping Cart box in one of the columns of osCommerce web site, on the Registration / Login page, and on the Checkout Payment and Checkout Confirmation pages. It may also appear in the User Account pages.
The end customers always expect their online purchase experience to be safe and their data to be secure.
That is why an osCommerce store owner first has to “buy” customer’s confidence to sell the goods.
SSL certificates not only secure customer’s data, but also help osCommerce store owners to improve online sales.