HOW IT WORKS

Shop online through Shopexa and support your favorite charities without any extra cost to you. Shopexa is not a charity. Shopexa is a social enterprise that hopes to succeed in business, AND do our part in making the world a better place by raising a lot of money for charity that will in turn help millions.

Most online shoppers don't realize how large the online shopping sector is. The online shopping industry is one of the fastest growing industries and is increasing at a rate of 30% every year. 2006 is estimated by analysts to bring close to US$100 billion in sales from online merchants. Amazon alone, starting from January 1, 2006 to September 30, 2006 made US$6.7 billion in net sales so far. Yeah... I'm not kidding!

With all those billions of dollars in sales made online, we asked, woudn't it be nice if a chunk of that large amount could be put towards charity? The answer to that is yes, it would be nice, and yes, we've built Shopexa to do just that. You can use Shopexa to browse, search, and shop online; and for every purchase you make through our site you'll generate dollars as you shop, and our system tracks the amount, collects the money from Amazon, and redirects 50% of that amount to the charities of your choice. The dollar amount you generate is approximately 2% of the purchase price of the product you buy. For example, if you buy a product for $100, $4 is collected from Amazon, and $2 is donated to your charity. However, depending on the volume of purchases made through Shopexa, it can increase up to 4% of the purchase price. Multiply this scenario by millions of Shopexa users, and we'd be able to raise a lot of money for your charities. Shopexa has an added feature where it not only displays the total amount generated for charity, but also displays the amount of money you were responsible for generating via your own purchases, and your invited friends' purchases.

Shopexa also makes shopping online, easy. Shopexa is powered by Amazon's technology, which means Shopexa lists ALL of Amazon's products (new & used), prices, and specials -- making Shopexa Amazon's twin brother. Amazon handles the billing and shipping aspect of your order. You can view and add products to your shopping cart on Shopexa, and when you checkout you will be sent directly to Amazon's payment page, where you enter your payment and shipping details to complete your purchase.

We also tried our best to keep Shopexa as user-friendly as possible. We kept the design very simple and organized -- menu on the right, content on the left... simple!

Here's what you can do if you're not shopping for anything in particular right now. The first thing you want to do is choose your charities and then tell people about Shopexa. You can send a quick email to your friends and co-workers and hopefully they'll be interested in shopping online through our site, and perhaps they will tell others about Shopexa as well. You alone could be responsible for inviting hundreds of online shoppers to Shopexa and end up generating over $10,000 for charity! Here's an easy way to invite friends.

We sincerely hope you'll join us in making Shopexa a success, so that together we can make a positive and significant change in the world.

Please visit our F.A.Q. page if you have more questions on how Shopexa works.