Management's Statement

Terra-Gate S.A.L specializes in the Supply, Integration and Installation of Electronic Commerce Services over the Internet. Through the Integration of these Services in an Inexpensive, Robust and Comprehensive offer, we aim at giving high Quality Professional E-Com Services to Professional Retail Merchants, who need to Focus on their own Commercial Business not on the Technology behind it.

As we strongly believe that Excellence is an attitude and an Outcome.

We endeavor to reach a high Level of Excellence through the Honesty, Trust, Skill and Creativity of our team. We expect our efforts to be rewarded by simply getting the recognition of our Social and Professional Environment. This is just another innovative way of ensuring the mutual Success of [Terra-Gate] and its Customers.

Get your own store to sell products on the Internet

[TERRA-GATE] offers merchants complete turnkey ready-to-use e-commerce packages. Our solution includes a search engine, one or more shopping carts, a checkout counter and secure payments plus standard hosting features. Our role is to get your business on the Web as easily as possible, by providing you with all the needed tools to quickly and cost-effectively build a virtual store:

Just Sign-Up
Enter your products
Be on-line within few hours
And incur no development costs Don't dive into long and everlasting loops by spending thousands of dollars on developing your own solution or buying software packages. "Time Is Money": On the Internet, this is even more true!

Focus on your business not the technology behind it

Terra-Gate, being an E-Commerce Service provider, offers a line of robust yet inexpensive, fully self- served e-commerce stores to a mass audience. Merchant' s set-up, run, and upgrade stores via the Web, with no need of assistance from [TERRA-GATE], their service provider. No Computer technology skills required. All Casual Computer/Internet users will easily succeed in their Projects.

For merchants, [TERRA-GATE] opens an affordable entry into the Electronic Commerce arena -- without requiring any investment in advance, IT skills, equipment or software -- at prices and service levels tailored to a variety of needs and budgets. Deployment (including database partitioning, memory allotment, and other back-end functions) is entirely automated.


Our Added-Value Solutions

1. Smart Architecture
2. Software & Security
3. Multilingual Support


Our Stores' Front office and Back office are currently available in:

Arabic
English/French

1. The Smart Architecture of our Mall

As a Professional Solution Provider, [TERRA-GATE]:

Defines and offers to Merchants a number of "Store Types" from very simple to feature-rich, creating a smooth upgrade path from one level to the next;

(a) For each store type, [TERRA-GATE]:

Sets Prices and Conditions
Selects which e-commerce features to include and specifies size limitations. As an example, at a specified price, a particular store would include a searchable catalog containing up to 250 products, along with other features.
Defines and sells "feature packs" to enable merchants to add or extend features without upgrading to a higher-level store, giving merchants the flexibility to tailor their store features and size it to their need.

(b) From their side our hosted Merchants:

Select a look and feel for their stores from a set of pre-defined styles, which they Software & Security
Buy additional or extended functionality, or upgrade to a higher-level store type as their business needs grow.


2. Software & Security

[TERRA-GATE]'s E-Com entry offer is built on INTERSHOP 4's robust, open platform, and provides the tools that merchants need to sell successfully on the Web.
In other words, [TERRA-GATE]'s Internet shopping Solution automates the buying and the selling on the "Net" and provides an easy, efficient way to set up your virtual shop on the Internet, thus enabling you to focus on your own business activity.

[TERRA-GATE]'s mission is to focus on the Technology for you: According to researches done by Internet Experts.
..."End users judge online businesses by the reliability, availability, performance, and simplicity of their services. And the expectations are that, services will be available to anyone, any time, anywhere, using all tested means.
To insure the above high level of expectations and, on your behalf,
[TERRA-GATE] has chosen the best in all:

a) Unix Based Servers
That is an ideal platform because it is time-tested and proven in the most demanding network applications, and it is built from the ground up for scalability, high performance, availability, interoperability, and security. More than 70% of the Internet backbone runs on similar operating systems and is used in hundreds of mission-critical environments around the world.

b) Intershop Products
Top Electronic commerce Solution Providers adopt the remarkable Industry standard new Intershop technology. Furthermore, [TERRA-GATE] is an Intershop certified "Professional Solution Provider" and thus, deserves your trust and confidence.
c) Online Payment Gateway
For its Electronic payment Gateway, most sensitive part of the E-commerce business, [Terra-Gate] has integrated the services of an already proven efficient Professional partner in this industry.

Our partners are committed to permanently follow the fast evolution of the technology by adapting their services to the market needs. "Moscanet SAL" and "CSC (Credit Card Services Company) SAL" are our selected providers for Credit Card Processing. A Lebanese Leader of the secure Payment industry, CSC/Moscanet, is the Internet Gateway of a leading Financial Institution, subsidiary of Lebanon and Gulf Bank. It is [terra-Gate]'s selective choice of the "Best Key to E-Commerce" for securing transactions over the Internet.

d) Security and Safety Using Encryption
Using Encryption Our solution guarantees the highest available level of security using a high-grade encryption key for U.S. domestic use only (RC4, 128 bit).

with the following full Certification to deploy such a level of security.
This Certificate belongs to:
www.e-one2one.com
Terra-Gate SAL
Bayrut (Beirut), Bayrut Muhafazah, LB This Certificate was issued by: Thawte Server CA
server-certs@thawte.com
Certification Services Division
Thawte Consulting cc
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA

If you wish to contact us, email us at: info@terra-gate.com