Shiplands.com - Help & FAQs

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How do I register as a member?

Go to Registration page and choose period validity and package of your choice
Fill up the form with all required information
Cross check your given information to avoid any misunderstanding and go to next level
You will enter in to payment gateway. Mention your details over here for online payment of package
After registration you will get your username and password in your inbox
With the help of username and password your can login to our website database and access it for further applications.

You can change your password by using the 'Password' option from within the 'My Account/ User Options/ Change Account Details' area.

How do I log in as a registered member?

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Enter your User Id, if not already completed and type your password in the space provided. Click on the 'Log in' button.
You will then be taken through to your personal My Account area. Where you can mention requisite details of yours.
You can use the 'logout' button on the top navigation bar to stop other users being able to access your account if you're away from your PC.

How do I log in if I've forgotten my password?

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Use the link 'forgot your password?' from within the login box.
Another box with User ID and E-mail fields will be open
Fill up any of the information, your User Id or your E-mail Id and submit
Shiplands will then be able to provide you your password that will be emailed to you.
Once you have received this email, login using your User Id and password.

You can change your password by using the 'Password' option from within the 'My Account/ User Options/ Change Account Details' area.

How do I change my password?

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Login to your account and go to My Shiplands and click on My Account
In that section there is Change Password link available, Click on that.
You will be taken to a screen prompting you to enter your 'old password' - enter your existing password in the space provided.
Then enter your new password and confirm it by entering it again in the space provided.
When all 3 fields are complete, select 'Change'.

As confirmation, a message will appear 'your password has been changed'.

How do I update my personal details on Shiplands?

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After login in to your account go to My Shiplands
There under My Profile section you will find list of your personal detail
Click on related text button of which you want to change the details.
Modify require changes and submit upgraded details.
Alert prompt window will appear with confirmation message of your upgraded details.

How do I change the email address that my matches are sent to?

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Once logged in to account, you access My Shiplands. In that My Account you will find Change My Email Address text button.
After clicking on that button, you will be taken to a screen prompting you to enter your New Email Address and Verify Email Address
In the space provided, enter the new email address that you would like your matches to be sent to and to verify the same email id mention it in the next field, then click 'submit'.
You will be taken back to the menu of My Account. As confirmation, a message will appear 'your email address has been changed'.

How do I change my profile?

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After login in to your account go to My Shiplands, in that under My Account you will find test button of “Change Your Profile”.
You will browse in to a new window with all your profile details.
In this window different profile fields will be available with your existing details like Company Name, Company Activity, Your First Name, Last Name, City/Province, Country, Telephone, Fax and Mobile Number.
Fields with star sign are mandatory to mention, without them your profile will not be upgraded. So be careful when you are changing your profile do not keep these fields blank.
You can change details of your choice by removing existing and adding latest one of your choice.
After mentioning all required fields click on Update button
You will be taken back to the menu of My Account. As confirmation, a message will appear 'your email address has been changed'.

How do I cancel my account?

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In My Shiplands section there is text button of “Cancel Your Account”
By clicking on that you will be taken to a screen prompting “Cancel Account”.
IN that there is a check box with confirmation message of account cancellation.
Check in to that and click on Submit button
After that one more system alert pop up window will appear with account cancellation confirmation
Press OK, if still you want to cancel your account else click Cancel not to continue with account cancellation.
You will be taken back to the menu of My Account. As confirmation, a message will appear 'your account has been cancelled’.

How to manage My Plan section?

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In your My Plan section, all available plans are mentioned along with its description and time validity.
If you have purchased any of the packages mentioned in the list of plans, it will show you remaining time frame of package availability. So you can renew that before it expires.
If you want to purchase any new package then there is brief description mentioned near to that along with different time periods in a dropdown box.
You can choose any of them with your required time frame and click on Next button
The subsequent browsing window will appear with final cost of your purchase. Still if you want to do any modification in your listed packages then you have to click on Back button else on Next button
The Next button will bring you to our payment gateway system page. Here you can mention all your requested details.
Once you have submitted your credit card payment, all requested packages will be activated for you on our website.
You will receive mails of payment confirmation as well as package service activation in your inbox.

How is the function of Posted Offers?

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In Posted Offers section all your submitted advertisement regarding business on our website are listed down.
With services list will also mention about no. of items. If you want to change your advertisement details you can do that by clicking on Edit button
If you want to add any new advertisement you can add that with the help of dropdown box located at the bottom of Posted Offers window.
When you are selecting any of the listed items you will be taken to a screen prompting a form.
Choose whether you want secure save or not? Then fill up the form
Do not forget to fill up mandatory form fields otherwise your form will remain incomplete and our server will not allow you to submit the form.
Once you are submitting the form that advertisement will be saved in our database and display your item on our directory with your contact details so that interested person will be in touch with you directly without any mediator.

What is My Cart?

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My Cart will display all your listed shopping items from our website.
The list is showing Item No., Category of product and Cost of Item for your individual shopping from our website directory.
If you want to remove any item from your shopping list there is remove button. By clicking on that you can cut that item from your shopping list.
After shorting out your shopping list you can check out for payment gateway.

How do I use the Directory?

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The Directory is available only for registered members and members who do not have any pending payments of Shiplands.
To get entry in to directory you have to mention all mandatory information about your company and company details. If you are skipping any mandatory field then form will not be submitted to create your company id in the directory.
You have to mention list of items which you wan to add in to the directory. List is just bellow the form of company details. And click on Submit Query button.
Now your company is listed down on our online directory.

What is Business Card?

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Business card is your E-visiting card. Which you can send to any of your worldwide contact with a fraction of a minute.
You can create only one Business Card at a time.
Business Card is our paid service. We are charging for that ___________.
There are ready made 6 Business card template designs are there to give perfect look to your intro card. Choose any of them.
Then mention all required information in the form at the bottom. Here you have to mention mandatory details like Company Name, Your full Name, Your Job Title in the company and contact E-mail Address.
Other then mandatory fields you can add your Phone, Mobile & Fax Numbers, Postal Address also you can put your own photograph on the Business Card.

How do I add a vessel for sale?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Sale & Purchase.
Click on text button of Add Ship for Sale
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
Then select Fill As Basic or Advance for your vessel.
After that select type of your vessel from provided drop down list. Same way you have to mention Sub vessel type from drop down menu
Describe about your vessel in one line.
Mention Vessel Manufacturing Year.
Select vessel Nationality by its Flag, Build or Contact
Specify Class of vessel
Mention Capacity of vessel according to given measurements in the dropdown list
Specify Service Speed of vessel per Knots in the given empty field
Describe LOA/Breadth and Depth/Draft per Metric
Mention Price of your vessel in USD/EUR/GBP
If you want to sell your vessel as a scrap then select yes from dropdown in Sale as Scarp field. If you do not want then specify with No
Finally briefly describe about your vessel with all important details which plays major roll in to selling of your vessel.
Now you can click on Submit button. Your vessel is ready for display on our directory for sale.

How do I add my purchase enquiry?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Sale & Purchase.
Click on text button of Add Ship for Purchase
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
After that select type of your vessel from provided drop down list. Same way you have to mention Sub vessel type from drop down menu.
Describe about your vessel in one line.
Select a country from dropdown which is convenient for you to do inspection of vessel.
Mention those Years of vessel building, during which you prefer to buy your new vessel.
Show your choice for purchasing ship as a scrap by selecting Yes or No from dropdown.
You have to mention capacity range according to given measures in the dropdown which you are looking for in your new vessel.
Mention your pricing budget to purchase the vessel in USD/EUR/GBP
Finally briefly describe about your expectations from new vessel with all important details which plays major roll for your selection of vessel.
Now you can click on Submit button. Your vessel requirement is ready for display on our directory for purchase.

How to search Ships for Sale?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Sale & Purchase.
Click on text button of View Ships for Sale.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be two search fields will appear with Type and Sub Type of vessels
Choose any of them and their sub type from given dropdown menu.
Now all Vessels are listed as you have asked in the search option.
Our database search result will display Serial No. of Ship on our database, Ship Description, Nationality, Capacity, LOA(m), Build Year, Price in USD and its posted date with our website. Also pictures of ship if uploaded by the owner/broker.
At the bottom of Search result page there is digit of total option of your choice also total number of pages with previous and next button. Each search result page will display 20 items at a time.
By clicking on specific Vessel type text button you will be taken to the detail information of that vessel. Clicked link will take you to the prompting screen which will give all general information, details and order details of that vessel.
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
Members can shortlist vessels of their selection from search result page itself. You have to click on Shortlist button given to second last column, at the end of Vessel information row.
You can view all your short listed items in the Shortlist segment of My Shiplands.
Members can also add their choice of vessel to their shopping card from search result page.
You can view all added vessels to shopping card by clicking on text button of View Cart on top of the search result page.
As you have entered to your shopping card now all details of shopping cart will be there.
By clicking on Back Button located on top, you can go back to your original search page.

How to search ships for Purchase?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Sale & Purchase.
Click on text button of View Ships for Purchase.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be two search fields will appear with Type and Sub Type of vessels
Choose any of them and their sub type from given dropdown menu.
Now all Vessels are listed as you have asked in the search option.
Our database search result will display Serial No. of Ship on our database, Ship Description, Nationality, Capacity, LOA(m), Build Year, Price in USD and its posted date with our website. Also pictures of ship if uploaded by the owner/broker.
At the bottom of Search result page there is digit of total option of your choice also total number of pages with previous and next button. Each search result page will display 20 items at a time.
By clicking on specific Vessel type text button you will be taken to the detail information of that vessel.
Clicked link will take you to the prompting screen which will give all general information, details and order details of that vessel.
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
Members can shortlist vessels of their selection from search result page itself. You have to click on Shortlist button given to second last column, at the end of Vessel information row.
You can view all your short listed items in the Shortlist segment of My Shiplands.
Members can also add their choice of vessel to their shopping card from search result page.
You can view all added vessels to shopping card by clicking on text button of View Cart on top of the search result page.
As you have entered to your shopping card now all details of shopping cart will be there.
By clicking on Back Button located on top, you can go back to your original search page.

How do I add an open vessel?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Category list. In that list there is chartering.
Bellow chartering there is text button of Add New Open Vessel, click on that.
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
After that select type of your vessel from provided drop down list. Same way you have to mention Sub vessel type from drop down menu
Describe about your vessel in one line.
Mention Vessel Manufacturing Year from given dropdown list.
Select date from given calendar according to local time of the port. You can get online calendar by clicking on text button of Select Date near to the open date field.
Mention Open Area. You can describe specific area by clicking on text button of select provided at the bottom of Open Area text field.
You will be taken to a screen prompting Search Port option.
Mention Port or country name in the search field and click on search button
As a result you will get list of ports in the country of specific port name as you have requested.
Click on expected result of your search. That will bring you back to the vessel detail form and Open Area field is filling up by your selected area from search.
Next field is Open Port which you have to fill. Again by following the Open Area field method you can get Open Port also if you do not have specific open port.
Mention Direction and Volume of vessel with appropriate measurements.
In the large text field you can describe about your vessel in detail.
After filling up the form with all mandatory specifications you can submit the form to our database by clicking on Submit button located at the bottom.

How do I add new cargo or T/C?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Category list. In that list there is chartering.
Bellow chartering there is text button of Add New cargo or T/C, click on that.
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
Select Type of cargo from given dropdown list
Describe about cargo in one line
Mention Laycan start and end date in their given fields
Mention load area and port with the help of given search facility
Specify Discharge area and port
Fill up field of Volume with Minimum and Maximum or only Maximum with appropriate measurement.
Describe briefly about your cargo in the last text field of Brief.
Once you are done with filling up form with all mandatory fields you can submit your cargo to our database by clicking on submit button at the bottom.

How do I search an open vessel list?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Category list. In that list there is chartering.
Bellow chartering there is text button of View Open Vessel List, click on that.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be two search fields will appear with Type and Sub Type of vessels
Choose any of them and their sub type from given dropdown menu.
Now all Vessels are listed as you have asked in the search option.
In the search result list you will get details of vessel like Serial Number, Type, Description, Open date and Open Port, Direction, Volume and Posted Date on our database.
By clicking on Type of chosen vessel of your choice you can get the General Information, Details and Order Information on another prompting screen.
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
You can shortlist your selected vessel by clicking on shortlist icon of that specific vessel.
All short listed vessels chosen by you will be displayed in your shortlist, which you can view in My Shiplands
You can directly add vessel of your choice to your shopping cart. The selected vessel will display in your shopping cart too.
If you want to view all your listed shopping items you have to click on Check Out button on the top of the page.

How do I search cargo or T/C?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Category list. In that list there is chartering.
Bellow chartering there is text button of View Cargo or T/C, click on that.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be two search fields will appear with Type and Sub Type of vessels
Choose any of them and their sub type from given dropdown menu.
Now all Vessels are listed as you have asked in the search option.
The listed search result will include Cargo Serial Number, Cargo Type, one line description, Laycan, Load or Dly Port, Discharge or Redly Port, Volume and date of Posting cargo to our database.
By clicking on Type of chosen vessel of your choice you can get the General Information, Details and Order Information on another prompting screen.
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
You can shortlist your selected vessel by clicking on shortlist icon of that specific vessel.
All short listed vessels chosen by you will be displayed in your shortlist, which you can view in My Shiplands
You can directly add vessel of your choice to your shopping cart. The selected vessel will display in your shopping cart too.
If you want to view all your listed shopping items you have to click on Check Out button on the top of the page.

How do I add Shipyard Position?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Building/Repairing.
Click on text button of add Shipyard Position.
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
Mention Company name in the first form field
Chose Company Activity from provided dropdown list
Describe about company in one liner
Select Country from given dropdown menu.
Mention Name of Nearest Port
Describe about the port in detail
Once you are done with filling up form with all mandatory fields you can submit your cargo to our database by clicking on submit button at the bottom.

How do I add Orders for Ship Building and Repairing?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Building/Repairing.
Click on text button of add Orders for Ship Building and Repairing.
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
Select Type of Order from given option of Building and Repairing
Chose vessel type and sub type from provided dropdown list
Note down short description about vessel
Mention capacity of vessel with specific parameters
Select country from country dropdown list
List down your expected price in USD/EUR/GBP
Briefly described about your vessel with all important notes
Once you are done with filling up form with all mandatory fields you can submit your cargo to our database by clicking on submit button at the bottom.

How do I search Shipyard Position?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Building/Repairing.
Click on text button of View Shipyard Position.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be two search fields will appear with Type and Sub Type of vessels
Choose any of them and their sub type from given dropdown menu.
Now all Vessels are listed as you have asked in the search option.
The search result page will display Shipyard Serial Number, Company Name, Country(Nearest Port), Description and Activity for each individual Port
By clicking on Type of chosen vessel of your choice you can get the General Information, Details and Order Information on another prompting screen.
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
You can shortlist your selected vessel by clicking on shortlist icon of that specific vessel.
All short listed vessels chosen by you will be displayed in your shortlist, which you can view in My Shiplands
You can directly add vessel of your choice to your shopping cart. The selected vessel will display in your shopping cart too.
If you want to view all your listed shopping items you have to click on Check Out button on the top of the page.

How do I search Ship Building and Repairing?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Ships Building/Repairing.
Click on text button of View Shipyard Position.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be two search fields will appear with Type and Sub Type of vessels
Choose any of them and their sub type from given dropdown menu.
Now all Vessels are listed as you have asked in the search option.
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
You can shortlist your selected vessel by clicking on shortlist icon of that specific vessel.
All short listed vessels chosen by you will be displayed in your shortlist, which you can view in My Shiplands
You can directly add vessel of your choice to your shopping cart. The selected vessel will display in your shopping cart too.
If you want to view all your listed shopping items you have to click on Check Out button on the top of the page.

How do I add Other Ship Business?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Other Ship Business.
Click on text button of Add Other Ship Business.
Choose whether you want to go for Secure Save or not.
Select Category of your business from provided drop down list
Mention subject of your Business Service which you want to advertise on our website
Briefly describe about your services in the last text field so that interested person can understand your company skills in detail.
Once you are done with filling up form with all mandatory fields you can submit your cargo to our database by clicking on submit button at the bottom.

How do I search Other Ship Business?

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Click to Sales & Purchase under Commercial heading. You will be taken to a screen prompting Other Ship Business.
Click on text button of View Other Ship Business.
On the right corner top of search result page, you will find New Filter. Click on that.
As you clicked on New Filter on middle of top there will be search field which appear with Type of business options
Choose any of their type from given dropdown menu according to your business type.
Now all Business types are listed as you have asked in the search option.
In the list there will be all kind of business are listed down with their unique serial number, Category and Subject, Date of Post.
By clicking on Business Category you will be able to reach new prompting screen with General Information, Details and Order Information of the trade
On ship detail page Ship Id is already mentioned, which can help you to reduce your efforts. Even you can take print of vessel details with the help of print icon on the top.
You can shortlist your selected vessel by clicking on shortlist icon of that specific vessel.
All short listed vessels chosen by you will be displayed in your shortlist, which you can view in My Shiplands
You can directly add vessel of your choice to your shopping cart. The selected vessel will display in your shopping cart too.
If you want to view all your listed shopping items you have to click on Check Out button on the top of the page.

How do I add Company in Directory?

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Click on Directory link under Marine Info
There will be window prompting with Feature profiles, Browsing tools and advertisement
Above the advertisement there is one Icon mentioning “Add New Company”. Click on that.
Another screen will prompt with Form fields. Regarding company information, company details and Submission Categories.
Fill up the form with all mandatory information for the form and then submit that with the help of submit button at the bottom of the form
After submitting form you will get prompt message that your company has been added to our database.

How do I edit Company information from directory?

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You would be able to change your company information from Directory Items under My Shipland section.
Under that your company information is highlighted Which is mentioning your company name, Date on which you have added your company to our directory, Date of your company account activation, Status and Edit button thru which you can edit all your company details
By clicking on Edit text button you can access form of your company information
Do required changes with all mandatory information fields and then submit the revised information form.
Screen prompting with message of your company information are upgraded will be displayed and after that it will reach to the My Shiplands index page.

How to get benefit of Shipland database?

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Click on Directory link under Marine Info
You will find two options for searching “Browse Category” and “Search Category”
Select your category from dropdown list of browse category
Chose country of your choice and click on Browse button
All your required information will be listed down on next prompting screen.
For using search Category you have to mention your search term
Mention which contact detail thru you want to search the information like Company Name, Person name or Phone Number.
Click on Search button and you will get all requested data on your screen

What is Shopping Cart?

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Shopping cart is allowing you to pay thru online secure payment gateway. What ever services our members are accessing from website are paid services. For convenience of our member we have established online shopping cart facility. You can pay online with your credit card. This process is fully secure and we are using 2checkout which is one of the reliable and secure payment gateway.

How do I use my shopping cart?

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Once you login to your account go to My Shiplands in that you will get My Cart section.
After accessing My Cart screen will prompting with all listed items in your cart.
On top there are three icons of Check Out Now, Empty Cart and Update Cart.
With the help of the Check Out Now you will be able to go to payment gateway and paying your charges for getting services of our web portal.
Empty Cart will empty your cart with erasing all your listed items in cart for shopping.
Update Cart will refresh your list of purchase items with latest added or subtracted one.
In My Cart Items will be displayed by their serial number, Category, service Charges in USD and if you want to remove any item from your list then each item is having delete icon at the end of information row.
Once you are ready with your final list of services to purchase click on Check Out button at the bottom of My Cart
By clicking on Check Out you will reach to screen prompting with form of Check Out.
Mention all details in the form as all of them are mandatory for online payment.
Then click on Continue, window will bring you to the direct online payment gateway where you have to mention about all your requested information along with your credit card number.
Once you are done with online payment procedure you will get a mail for receipt of your payment and activation of services from our website automatically in your inbox.

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