Whether you are starting a brand new eCommerce website, or simply looking to perform an eCommerce re-design on your current site, Fyresite.com’s goal is to provide you with the best possible solutions in professional e-Commerce webdesign at an affordable price. Because every company’s needs are different we offer several different CMS eCommerce options to fit your needs. With an assortment of features and options we can provide, we make your online business transactions mutually easy and secure for both the website owners and your clients and customers. Whether your needs vary from selling a product or subscription, to simply collecting payments for a service, the Fyresite.com team can develop the custom eCommerce website perfect for your business. There are several options we provide when creating an eCommerce website for your company in order to cater to your exact needs.
Things To Consider When Setting up an eCommerce Store
Features
Most any shopping cart services come with the basic features needed to run a day-to-day online store. These may suffice for awhile, at least at the beginning. However, as your business grows, you will likely need more flexibility. Solutions to the problems you will likely encounter will be features such as batch order processing, purchase order management and other advanced tools that will help your business go more smoothly as well as to help continue grow your business. The right marketing tools can go a long way, such as built-in auto email responders, newsletters, rewards programs, gift registry, affiliate program, and social media integration.
Support
The Internet is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year, and so should your service provider’s support service should be. It is inevitable, you will encounter an issue after-hours, or on weekends, and holidays; it would be wise to keep this in mind when choosing your service provider.
Security
With the amount of online criminal activity that takes place these days keeping your business and customers safe is not just a big part of selling online, it has to be a priority. This is why it’s crucial to use a shopping cart solution that not only meets but exceeds industry security standards. Your business should utilize a business solution that is fully PCI Certified and is also on Visa’s list of providers. This level of security provides a much more safety for both you and your customers than mere compliance and also will instill confidence in your website’s users.
Social; Mobile Selling
In order to compete in todays market, your online business needs to be in the social media and mobile arena. As it becomes more and more common for shoppers to use their smartphones and Facebook, for shopping, the potential for increased exposure to markets and sales is blatantly important. When picking a shopping cart solution, you may want to look for one that offers a built-in mobile optimized store. You’ll also need the necessary plugins and tools that allow you to list and share your products across multiple social sites.
Design
Customers will not shop on, much less buy from your website if it doesn’t appear credible. That is why it is extremely important to have a site that looks professional and well developed and have a full selection of design options.
WordPress w/ WP e-Commerce
WordPress is a great publishing platform utilized nearly everywhere these days. You will find WordPress development in the majority of private websites.
Notable Features:
- It is Free and also an open source CMS (You are free to modify its code to customize it to your specific needs).
- WP e-Commerce is the first plugin created to deal with e-commerce in WordPress. Therefore, its maturity is shown in its collection of a lot of nice features like a variety of shipping and payment solutions so your business isn’t limited.
- Free support forums allow you to find answers to any problems you may encounter. If you run into a problem, there is someone who has encountered it before.
- WP e-Commerce offers template tags to integrate it into your theme, which makes it easy to design themes that have e-commerce functionalities built into them.
- Premium Modules: to cut down on time spent finalizing a project, you can purchase premium modules of WP e-Commerce from their store to extend and enhance some features of your e-store.
Magento
Magento is a high-quality open source platform. One benefit of Magento is its extensive library of freely available plugins and integrations via MagentoConnect.
Notable Features:
- It is Free and also an open source CMS (You are free to modify its code to customize it to your specific needs).
- MagentoConnect allows you to find new plugins to extend the options in your online shop.
- Clean XHTML and Stylesheets.
- Runs on most LAMP stack setups.
- Coupons and Promotions.
- You can power multiple sites from one product database.
- A Multitude of Custom Extensions are Available
BigCommerce
BigCommerce is another hip hosted ecommerce. BigCommerce says they are the fastest growing ecommerce platform in the world, mainly because they focus on helping entrepreneurs launch enterprise-grade eCommerce.
Notable Features:
- Fully modifiable, which gives design control over the HTML and CSS as well as FTP access.
- Integrates your store’s products with product comparison engines like Beso, BizRate and MySimon.
- Allows for use of Email Marketing via MailChimp Integration.
- Provides a mobile version for Webkit based browsers.
- Facebook Shopping App. is provided.
