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    E-Commerce and Online Stores



    E-commerce is the term given to selling online utilising database driven shopping carts, secure ordering and payment facilities.

    People tend to do a lot of impulse buying, and if you can make your products easy to purchase on your website then you can take advantage of this fact.

    By giving people the option to order your products on your website using their credit card will also free up a lot of your time making sales and processing orders that you would probably not have even acquired if you did not have this option on your website.

    E-Commerce software, Online Stores, Paypal setup, Selling Online - image Dorris Design can create easy to use fully updatable websites with e-commerce abilites. This means you can update your own site content and stock, process orders, manage your site users and send email newsletters to those people with great ease.

    There are many features of a database driven online store that can be completely automated so all the owner needs to do is add fresh stock and process the orders that come through.

    A little more effort is usually required if you want to create large amounts of traffic and sales such as link building, newsletters and advertising but that's the same with any website.
    For more information on how to get the most out of your website     click here.

    E-Commerce websites can also include secure online payment facilities so people can pay using a credit card strait into your existing merchant bank account to save you money and hassle processing payments manually or using a service like Paypal.

    The image above shows an extract from the     Tadpole Trends website which is a fully updatable database driven online wholesale store created by Dorris Design.

    Online Store Features

     SHOPPING CART:
    • Shopping Cart feature (Add to Cart, Modify Cart contents).
    • Shipping Calculator or add shipping costs later option.
    • Search Items feature. (The catalogue of products can be sorted automatically by category or people can do a search as you would with a search engine like Google)
    • Product views and purchase statistics.
    • Automatic cross selling feature. (Display “Customers who bought this also purchased…” beneath products)

    CHECK-OUT ORDER PROCESSING:
    • Orders can be paid and processed through a secure payment gateway using your current eftpos merchant facilities. You will have to check with your bank to make sure your merchant account has support for e-commerce and obtain the necessary details to install and set up the payment gateway.

    SHIPPING:
    • For the most automated online setup it is best that shipping costs be worked out when building the site and inserted into the system so they can be calculated automatically.
    • Otherwise you may choose to work out shipping and enter it manually to be added to the order cost and then request payment. If payment is to then be received through the website using your bank’s merchant facilities this will require an extra processing feature.

    ADMINISTRATION/CONTENT MANAGEMENT:
    • Secure Administration area to instantly update any part of the site (Add/Remove/Edit practically any part of the sites content including products, banners, customer accounts, shipping details, store policies etc).
    • Mailing List Newsletter Feature for easily sending emails to any or all customers.
    • Order Tracking Feature for easy review and processing of customer orders.
    • Specials Feature. (Mark an item on special for a set period of time and it will be automatically shown on a specials page as well as the normal product catalogue)
    • Out of Stock feature. (Removes an item from display, but leaves it in the database for easy restoration.)

    CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS:
    • Sign-up Request for new customers – can either be automatically created or emailed to the site admin for approval.
    • Login feature for customer accounts.
    • Shopping cart contents are saved for next time the person logs in.
    • Customers can view their current orders and order history.
    • Customers can maintain and edit their own account details including multiple shipping addresses, personal contact details and passwords.

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