A lot of webmasters have thought of opening up their own professional online store. Complexity and cost keeps them from ever actually going through with it. E-bay now has a new company called ProStores, which lowers the bar for internet entrepreneurs.

What is ProStores?

With Prostores you pay a small monthly fee and can get your entire online store setup quickly as a package. They provide the hosting and you can register a domain name with them. They also allow you to transfer your current domain to them or use a subdomain of prostores.com

Why not just use Ebay Stores instead of ProStores?

Prostores is totally independant from Ebay. Your store doesn’t have to sell Ebay products like with Ebay stores. If you do choose to sell Ebay auction items however, you can easily import them into the Ebay system with Prostores. Prostores is also giving a discount for new signups for current Ebay Pro store sellers.

Advantages to ProStores:

Cost - You can get your whole website packaged cheaply for commercial store use. It is much cheaper price than if you were to buy the templates and software individually. Instead of highering a programmer to setup your site, Prostores will automatically have it all integrated for you. The nice selection of expensive templates, will save you a lot of money on web design.

Convenience - You don’t have to worry about installing multiple software or configuring it correctly. Hiring a programmer to get everything working together, can be expensive and a hassle too. Then you also have to worry about a web designer. ProStores eliminates this as it is an easy automatic setup ready to go in just a few minutes.

What Prostores includes:

The 29.95 a month option called ProStores Business includes a Ebay, Paypal , credit card, SSL, email marketing lists, customer tracking, product managment interface, and more. You can also integrate 3rd party software such as MP3’s, flash into Prostores. The hosting is 24/7 support, with 5 GB of storage and 50GB transfer. They charge 0.5% on each customer transaction for the ProStores business option.

There are also other packages available at different prices.

You can read more about ProStoreshere.