How do they match: Online Merchants

  • Conduct retail activities of businesses operating exclusively online. May perform duties such as preparing business strategies, buying merchandise, managing inventory, implementing marketing activities, fulfilling and shipping online orders, and balancing financial records.

  • Disclose merchant information and terms and policies of transactions in online or offline materials.
  • Implement security practices to preserve assets, minimize liabilities, or ensure customer privacy, using parallel servers, hardware redundancy, fail-safe technology, information encryption, or firewalls.
  • Participate in online forums or conferences to stay abreast of online retailing trends, techniques, or security threats.
  • Select and purchase technical web services, such as web hosting services, online merchant accounts, shopping cart software, payment gateway software, or spyware.
  • Transfer digital media, such as music, video, or software, to customers via the Internet.
  • Upload digital media, such as photos, video, or scanned images to online storefront, auction sites, or other shopping Web sites.

  • Calculate data to inform organizational operations.
  • Develop business or financial information systems.
  • Maintain data in information systems or databases.
  • Obtain information about goods or services.