
Qualification: CSP must provide merchant Web hosting services (by services we mean network access) and specific e-commerce services, such as catalog apps, shopping carts, payment engines and package tracking (not vanilla Web hosing).
Note: The survey has been edited from its original form to reflect the order in which responses are presented.
1. (a)Vendor name?
Phone number?
Address?
(b)Which of the following are primarily your e-commerce customers? Please check ONLY one.
Large corporations
Medium-sized businesses
Small businesses
2. How many e-commerce sites do you host?
3. What is the largest number of products you host on a single site?
4. What percentage of your e-commerce sites are
Business-to-Consumer
Business-to-Business
Other
5. What is the estimated peak load (in Mbps) for your primary hosting site?
6. What is the total current aggregate bandwidth for your primary hosting site (in Mbps)?
7. Do you provide digital certificate support, and is your service provider VeriSign?
8. Do you provide real time credit card payment processing, and is your service provider CyberCash?
9. How many employees do you dedicate to helpdesk support (full-time equivalents)?
10. How many full-time (non-clerical) employees do you dedicate to e-commerce hosting services
(include operations, technical, design, sales, customer service)?
11. During what days and hours is your helpdesk staffed on weekdays?
12. During what days and hours is your helpdesk staffed on weekends?
13. What reimbursement do you provide for an outage?
14. What period triggers a service level reimbursement?
15. What specific tools are required on the merchant's desktop for Web authoring/editing?
16. What specific tools are required on the merchant's desktop for viewing/manipulating reports?
17. What percent of e-commerce servers at your primary hosting site are dedicated to a single site or application?
Which of the following reliability measures do you provide?
18. Customer tools to assess packet delivery rate to site
19. Service level agreements
20. Server redundancy
21. Network redundancy
22. Backup facility
23. Cross-server dynamic load balancing
Which of the following general services do you provide?
24. site design/development
25. offline store administration by merchant
26. customer registration
27. site promotion
Which of the following catalog services do you provide?
28. search engine
29. personalization of content/pricing
Which of the following fraud detection services do you provide?
30. purchase limits by product
31. overuse of a credit card
Which of the following services do you provide for integration with the merchant's legacy system?
32. SAP
33. PeopleSoft
34. Oracle Financials
Which of the following customer care services do you provide?
35. order status provisioning
36. e-mail notification of shipment to buyer
37. consumer/association membership tracking
38. frequent buyer support
39. e-mail alert and notification engine
40. consumer update/change of registration information
Which of the following fulfillment services do you provide
41. digital goods fulfillment
42. physical goods fulfillment
Which of the following payment services do you provide?
43. purchase order
44. invoice
45. SET
46. EDI
47. XML
48. subscription services
49. online tax calculation
50. online bill presentment
51. Open Buying on the Internet Standard
52. traffic routing by bill type (e.g. credit, invoice, etc.)
Which of the following reporting/analysis tools do you provide?
53. traffic analysis
54. logfile analysis
55. support for online query and analysis
56. backend data aggregation
57. buyer's purchasing history available
58. flexible/inexpensive management of archived history
59. site administration through template
60. site administration through browser
Which of the following other services do you provide?
61. e-mail generated automatically
62. EDI gateway
63. unlimited e-mail forwarding
64. bidding support
65. video streaming
66. workflow engines
67. multilanguage support
68. multicurrency support
69. fax server support
70. varied privilege levels for multiple store administrators
71. e-mail virus scanning
What is your fee for
72. initial e-commerce Web site design? Please provide a typical price-range.
73. server setup? Enter zero if you don't charge a fee.
74. application usage? Enter zero if you don't charge a fee.
75. a catalog entry? Enter zero if you don't charge a fee.
76. monthly service? Enter zero if you don't charge a fee.
77. disk allocation? Enter zero if you don't charge a fee.
78. per-megabyte transfer? Enter zero if you don't charge a fee.
79. other?
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