ecommerce

Introduction

If you want to sell something on line, then you will need to some sort of e-commerce solution. E-Commerce or (Electric Commerce to give it its full title) allows for commerce to occur online, the most common of which happens through websites.

One of the huge benefits of selling online is that you are not limited by geography like you are with traditional commerce. When you come to us for a commerce solution, we will not just sell you the latest package that we have developed. We will take into account all your needs and the requirements for your online shop – whether it is an events management company or a shop selling bespoke wedding stationary.

Of course, there are a few elements to all online shopping which we aim to include in all our solutions. Let us take a look at some of these points now:

24 hour accessibility

Your shop is no longer governed by the normal hours of 9-5 trading, your website can accept payments around the clock from people any where in the world and not just those in a 30 mile radius of your shop’s location.

Automation

Let’s take the normal consumer experience of looking in a printed catalogue. They will pick a product, contact you, decide on terms, check stock, check delivery and so on and so forth. Now with a properly designed ecommerce experience, the website can do all of that and more without even involving you as the retailer, the process only really begins when the order is finalised and you are contacted with the details. How simple is that?

Features

Our ecommerce packages come fully laden with some great features. We can develop existing off the shelf e-commerce solutions or build you one from scratch, either way you can have:

  • Managing your stock
  • Product recommendations
  • Keeping you and the customer informed through email
  • Multiple payment methods
  • Discounting
  • Tax calculations
  • Manage your customer base
  • Integrate with social media accounts – Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc.

We finely tune the systems we build for our customers to make sure that the experience is streamlined so the possibility of losing customer halfway the transaction is cut its minimal amount.

Other benefits include:

As the processes are automated, a lot of your book keeping can be done on the fly and keep your records permanently updated. Invoices are available as and when you need them and all records, transactions and payments are logged so that you never spend time running around looking for a lost receipt.

In short, for the relatively low investment of an ecommerce solution, the benefits can be huge as well providing extra revenue streams in these recession hit times.