eCommerce – Sell Your Products Online

Ever wished you had more hours in the day to push your business sales and products?
On-line eCommerce is one way to help address that issue.

The appeal of being able to sell products and services to a global community of billions 7 days a week, 24 hours a day is huge.  Welcome to eCommerce.

With UK on-line sales predicted to hit £76 billion in 2010, can you afford not to offer to products and services this way?

eCommerce Websites

There are several ways of implementing an eCommerce website and they are dependant on how many products you have and how flexible you need to be.

Service providers such as PayPal allow you to create payment buttons and insert them onto a web page.  This option is probably the cheapest and is great if you have a small number of items to sell.

The drawbacks however are that you have to be happy editing HTML web pages, there is no stock control and you’re restricting sales to just those customers who have a PayPal account.

The Product Catalogue

A more comprehensive and of course expensive way to implement an eCommerce website is to get a web developer to design a theme around a popular eCommerce application such as OS Commerce, Zen Cart or Magento.

These applications act like Content Management Systems for products and sales and give the customer an “Amazon” shopping experience and yourself a back-end product catalogue to manage.

Here are some images from the Magento interface.

Magento Shop Tour |  Magento Admin Tour

Give us a call on 0800 44 88 960 to discuss your eCommerce website requirements.