What are the costs, and how do I earn income?

Cost & Fee Structures
There is a cost for the store services provided by Hallelujah Square/deepershopping services. The current fee schedule is shown below:

H.S./deeperShopping Monthly Service Fee - based on the type of store you are operating: Christian Retail Store - starting at $19.98 per month (Selling around 50,000 titles) General / Secular Retail Store - $19.98 per month (Selling around 1.2 million titles - Coming December 07) H.S./deeperShopping order transaction fee based on the recommended retail price for the full order. The fee is based on the store type and store reseller you are working with. The current schedule of fees is below: H.S./deeperShopping Member Bookstores - 5% of the RRP of the products included in the order 30Fold Member Bookstores - 10% of the RRP of the products included in the order Credit card processing / Merchant fees Typically around 3% of the full transaction total

How do I make money with the service?
Your store is able to sell products directly from our online catalog. We do not own or operate our own warehouse - instead we have contracted various organizations to provide fullfillment services. For Christian stores, those distributors include Anchor Distributors, and Appalachian Distributors. For secular bookstores our distribution parnters include Ingram Books and Baker & Taylor.

Each distributor assigns a standard wholesale buy price to their items. That is your baseline cost. On average, our distributors give our retailers the full industry standard discount, which is 42%. To that should be added the transaction fee and the credit card fee. The difference between the total cost and your selling price is your profit.

The consumer retail discount level (the price your customers pay) can be customized by each online store. You are free to select the discount you wish to sell at, from 0% to just under 25% of retail. The retail discount level can be set as a uniform rate for all products, or can be set by product category - for example you may sell everything at say a 10% discount, except Bibles at 20% and Jewelry at 25%. Our flexible pricing model allows you to choose how you sell products.

Below is an example as to how you would earn revenue.

Line Item	Sell at Full RRP	Sell at 20% RRP Discount
Order Total	$50.00	$40.00
Cost Of Products (42% discount from RRP)	$29.00	$29.00
Transaction Fee (depends on store type)	$2.50	$2.50
Credit Card Fee (Average of 35c + 3%)	$1.85	$1.55
Total Costs	$33.35	$33.05
Net Profits	$16.65	$6.95

You can also create coupons and apply them to individual products, all products or product categories. Coupons come in three types, percentage off, dollar off coupons and fixed value coupons. For example, you can create a coupon to sell an item at a fixed price, an extra 5% off, or an extra $1.50 off the price. Our coupon system offers maximum flexibilty. Track coupon usage to see which marketing techniques are effective. If you use coupons, remember, this is money that you are giving back to the customer - and its coming from your bottom line.

Hallelujah Square/deeperShopping websites are a great way to offer your internet clients instant savings, and yet also raise revenues for your bookstore, local school, brownie / girlscount group, reading club, charity or similar!

If you would like further information please contact customer service at, or via email at customerservice@hallelujahcoop.com . You may also use it to ask general questions, and relax, we don't have any pushy sales people. We will answer your query as best we can and leave you to make your decisions!

Why do you charge a transaction fee?
We charge a transaction fee to cover the time and expense of providing customer service to your customers when they have questions or problems with their orders. There is a significant cost to our organization to look after your customers, and to ensure they receive customer service. Should an order go missing, or be incorrect we will make it good with the customer. The transaction fee covers the costs we incur in providing these services and are extremely cost effective. It also covers the time we spend liasing with the distributors should there be a problem with the order.

Can I opt out of the transaction fee?
No, this is not an option that is currently, or expected to be available.