Whats involved in ecommerce?
If you want to sell online you need an ecommerce enabled website
This will enable you to:
- display your product details with images if required
- allow customers to make their selection and pay for the goods securely online
- keep track of orders and customer details
- have the ability to process credit cards or have links to an online payment systemn
- maintain the store with an online product administration system
- allow for product options
- have a search facility for customers to use
- have sophisticated stock analysis defining numbers in stock, out of stock messages etc
- have flexibility over prices to allow for discounts
Ecommerce sites invariably work with a customer choice and selection/buying features commonly called 'shopping basket' and 'checkout'
Why have an ecommerce program?
All the diverse elements outlined above are best controlled by a specialist programme.
These programs are of three sorts Standalone programs loaded onto the
users server and controlled by the site adminisrator.
Ecommerce web templates with all the ecommerce facilities built in to the page structure. These can be customised tio the owners corporate image - this is the ecommerce templates approach |
Templateshop.org.uk 2006