Ecommerce is the process of selling products or services online. With the boom of the internet came the technologies allowing traditional bricks and mortar businesses to sell their products and services to a national and international market.
What you need to know about getting an ecommerce website. Firstly before you decide to set up an ecommerce website you need to have a product or service to sell online. Sounds crazy but hear us out...
What is it that your going to sell? How much is it going to cost you? How much are you going to sell it for? How are you going to supply/deliver this service? How are you going to take payment? What about delivery of the product/service?
Now that you have your product/service what next? Before you can set up your site you need to have an internet merchant account number. Merchant account numbers are obtained from your bank. A lot of banks are now asking to see the website before they approve your application so this step may have to come after the site has been built. Learn more about merchant account providers.
What do you need from your website? You can get an ecommerce website for free from open source sites like oscommerce but it wont work the way you do or your business. Consider how you are going to categorise your products, do you require options?, how are the payments going to work?, who is going to process the payments?, how are orders delivered?, what does the client receive?, delivery costs and order confirmations.
All of our ecommerce websites are custom built to your specification and the way your business works.
Ecommerce website payment providers. There are a number of companies that can process your payments on your behalf. These include Paypal, Worldpay, Nochex, Protx as well as your banks own system. Tumblefish are a preferred supplier for Protx but have extensive experience in the systems of all of the major banks and merchant service providers.
We have developed a number of ecommerce website including: www.electrixworld.co.uk, www.4littletots.co.uk and www.matkee.com amongst others. Contact us for more details and a demonstration.