What is E-Commerce?
E-commerce allows businesses to sell their own products or services online to their customers through a shopping platform. The business is responsible for stock, warehousing, inventory management, online payments and fillfilment.
E-commerce platforms can be used for a wide range of activities:-
- Products
- Sevices
- Downloadable Goods (music, books, recipes, tickets etc.)
- Subscriptions
- Gift Cards
There is no denying that business need to have an online presence to be successful, just opening their high street doors, unless selling a very local and personalised product or service, should sell electronically.
There are many companies globally who provide E-commerce platforms, the most popular being:-
Wordpress / Woo Commerce - A very scalable blogging, brochure and E-commerce based platform, perfect for businesses who require individuality and coded with plugins to take your business in many different directions. Costly in terms of development, constant security updates, high maintenance and higher hosting costs as a result. Not particularly user-friendly.
Shopify - Not so scalable in terms of design, but extremely user-friendly and built from the floor up to be a true E-commerce platform. Built in payment processor using Stripe, fraud protection system and self intuitive making it perfect for businesses to self manage their store. There is also a large third party marketplace for additional plugins.
How we can help you
If you would like to know more about starting an E-commerce business, setting up the right platform or discussing an opportunity and how we can help you succeed, please get in touch.
Please note, if you are already considering Shopify as your preferred platform, as developers we can extend the limited 14 day free trial to unlimited 'with no payment required' whilst in development, please contact us before starting any free trials.
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