I am happy to announce that our e-commerce site is now active!

www.solenne.eu

We have a lot of our data posted, and you can purchase through credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), Google checkout, Paypal, and wire transfer.

I have Ian Lurie to thank for giving great (free) advice, which is to try Volusion as a webcart, and I have been very happy with what we have seen so far. Not perfect for us, since we are much more information category focused, with only two products. However their system is robust, allows for a one-stop solution for merchant account, gateway, and software, and their support has been for the most part very good.

I found EU solutions for webcarts far inferior, especially in dealing with multiple payment systems, and I couldn't find an all-in-one solution. That is no criticism of the EU, it is just an outgrowth of the fact that there is no one unified Europe (with common payment systems, languages, gateways, etc.), so there is no EU (let alone EU plus US) -wide system based here. I find that the only thing I ended up missing out on with Volusion so far is iDeal, the Dutch bank transfer system. This may come eventually as well. We did have to incorporate a US distribution company and open a US bank account, but that was not so time consuming or costly.

Next step is to notify the several hundred people who have signed up to be contacted when Combray is ready. Then, begin our internet advertising. I hope then to start a project with Ian's company, Portent Interactive.

Next for site content is an informational section on antioxidants in skin care, for which we have a huge amount of material prepared.

Stay tuned!