Free e-commerce Service with Community Support Released at CeBIT 2007

March 15, 2007; 05:15 AM
Smilehouse, the leading e-commerce software developer, released a free e-commerce service for entrepreneurs and small businesses today at CeBIT 2007. Now anyone can open a free webshop at www.wosbee.com and build successful e-business solution, with secure hosting included. Wosbee was opened for public beta in January 2007 and during three months beta phase almost 2,000 Wosbee webshops were opened.

Wosbee enables you to open a webshop and start selling online. It only takes a minute to signup for a free, hosted webshop at www.wosbee.com. With Wosbee, you can easily build a visually attractive and well-functioning e-commerce site. Web design companies can also use it to build online stores and webshops for their customers.

Wosbee includes support for major payment systems such as PayPal, Google Checkout, Ogone, DIBS - DebiTech, Chronopay and ClickandBuy. For merchants it includes all the common e-commerce features such as template-based layout management, a product catalog, search engine optimization (SEO), shopping basket functions and versatile order management.

Compared to other e-commerce services, Wosbee is offered free of charge. It includes a lively community for services and support. For example, using community forums merchants can exchange ideas and experiences on successful e-commerce. A valuable benefit is also the possibility to download and install Wosbee software on merchants’ own server.

Wosbee is created and supported by Smilehouse, the leading e-commerce software vendor. Leading enterprises such as Suunto, Iittala and TeliaSonera use the same technology to power their enterprise e-commerce solutions. As such, there is a credible growth path for Wosbee merchants when their online business booms.

About Smilehouse

Developed by merchants, Smilehouse Workspace is the most scalable packaged software for successful e-commerce. Ranging from free Wosbee.com service to enterprise level software, Workspace brings the best e-commerce platform for entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises.

Smilehouse is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with offices also in Sweden, Estonia and The Netherlands. The company’s estimated turnover for 2007 is 3.2 million euro. In a recent Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA 2006 competition, Smilehouse was ranked as the 445th fastest-growing technology company. For more information: www.smilehouse.com.