Bizhosting.com, a property of About Web Services, a division of About, Inc., and a developer of Web hosting solutions, today announces the launch of Discount Manager, a suite of integrated merchandizing tools built to complement its e-commerce hosting services.

Discount Manager provides high-end merchandising capabilities, enabling Bizhosting.com merchants to run an unlimited number of promotions simultaneously, and to manage all discounted products from a single interface. Discount Manager handles flat-rate, quantity, volume, "buy X get Y," "buy A get B," tiered and shipping discounts -- discounting by either set amount or a percentage of price. Unique features include the ability to schedule discounts to automatically begin and end on specified dates, restrict discounts to new customers or return customers only, create coupon and promotion codes, and to place limits on the number of times a discount can be used per order.

"Building on the success of Bizhosting.com to date, we continue to enhance and refine our services based on customer feedback. Discount Manager is the first product to bring together so many offline merchandizing methods in an online shopping cart system, and is one of the few merchandizing tools that enables all merchandizing activity in a store to be managed from a single view. Our easy-to-use e-commerce tools take the complexity out of e-commerce, allowing small business owners to focus on running their business instead of managing a web site," said Richard Christiansen, General Manager of About Web Services.

Bizhosting.com's Discount Manager has been fully integrated into all of Bizhosting.com's premium e-commerce hosting plans and, like other Bizhosting.com services, does not require additional installation by the customer. A fully functioning version of Discount Manager will also be available on a trial basis to subscribers of Bizhosting.com's free e-commerce hosting service.

About Web Services

About Web Services, a division of About, Inc., is one of the largest providers of Web hosting, domain management, e-commerce and email solutions to more than 2.5 million small businesses and individuals through a number of properties, including 50Megs.com, FreeServers.com, BizHosting.com, GlobalServers.com, FreePolls.com, SiteTracker.com, FreeStats.com and CommunityArchitect.com. Since January 2001, total subscribers for About Web Services has increased by over 400 percent. About, Inc. is a division of PRIMEDIA.