Most nonprofits begin the walk towards becoming an e-business by building a brochureware Web site.
This site is normally a rework of print material with very little interaction. A stage two e-business is one that moves from simply having a Web presence to enabling transactions on its Web site. Transactions normally mean e-commerce. E-commerce is normally defined as the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet or ,for a charity, the processing of online credit card donations. We expand this definition to include the transfer of any valuable data between you and your Web site visitors.