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Checks are a pain, but some customers have to pay that way.  It factors in quite a bit on bigger purchases.

The newer backend pulls orders from ebay and amazon so that inventory can be managed in one place for all channels.  It also submits shipment/completed order requests back.  For the actual shipping of product, we have an array of options: Right now we've got THUB and ShipWorks extension modules available and we're looking to add modules for ShipWire, ShipStation and a few others as well pre-release.

You'd only need one ShipWorks website connection.  All orders funnel from all channels through the store software down to ShipWorks for shipping, then tracking data is sent from ShipWorks back to the store, and then back to the originating channel.  ShipWorks never knows whether the order it's shipping came from amazon, ebay, the store, etc.  This is the case for any and all shipping integrations.

None of the V9 beta sites that we've posted are using MultiSite.  We have several V8 sites that use a similar module.  You basically have one install, and point all your domains to it, either directly (one server account, Non-SSL setup), or using Apache mirrors (if SSL is required, in most cases it is).  From there you get to choose which items (banners, pages, products, categories, payment methods, etc.) show on which sites, you can skin them differently, and you can override settings on a per-domain basis for each.  One install, one database - full control over all pointed sites from one management interface. SEO is correct, and fully tested, and avoids all duplicate content issues due to the use of separate skins, URLs, and different SEO parameters.

All the items you mentioned could be the same, or could be different.  Remember in V9 you set up your inventory separate from the product offers, so you could offer one item at one price with a particular description on one site, and do something completely different with it by creating a different product offer for it on the new site.  Concerning checkout, you have the ability to override checkout form fields and payment methods per-site.  You also have the ability to override settings.  So doing something like the following is trivial: offering a special Authorize.net payment method on one site while disabling discount codes and loyalty points for only one site or several.  As far as everyone is concerned, these are different sites, and if you skin them differently and mix up your product offerings, nobody will know the difference all the way through checkout including mails with proper logos and proper printable invoices.  Shipping from the backend will even print the right invoice for the right site for an order.  It was built to run an entire web business like LGT using one install.  It's flexible enough to make one or more sites wholesale only, etc.  No stone was left unturned.