e-commerce solution
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ecwid.com
Very easy to operate, integrate shipping and payments, and then just copy the code into your website.
I did our initial setup including writing the website in a couple of days, but you can play around with their test store and see how you get on without paying anything.
Others swear by Shopify, very similar setup.
Very easy to operate, integrate shipping and payments, and then just copy the code into your website.
I did our initial setup including writing the website in a couple of days, but you can play around with their test store and see how you get on without paying anything.
Others swear by Shopify, very similar setup.
theboyfold said:
I'm after a bit of a steer with regards to an e-commerce solution I can pull together very quickly (by the end of Feb). Does anybody have any experience in this and would be happy to offer insights as to what they have done and how easy it was to setup?
Can you give us a bit more information about what you need?What sort of products/services do you have? Configurable products? Many of the same products but in different sizes, colours, etc? Products made up of other products or other optional products? Any digital products?
How about customers? Only UK based? EU, international? Different customer groups (retail, trade, etc)?
Any particular features you need with the website, product videos, particular filter options, slick checkout, particular payment methods, etc?
theboyfold said:
I'm after a bit of a steer with regards to an e-commerce solution I can pull together very quickly (by the end of Feb). Does anybody have any experience in this and would be happy to offer insights as to what they have done and how easy it was to setup?
How technical are you? Do you know Wordpress for example? Can you code at all? Are you happy to give away a slice to a provider of the solution.We need to know more
jammy_basturd said:
Can you give us a bit more information about what you need?
What sort of products/services do you have? Configurable products? Many of the same products but in different sizes, colours, etc? Products made up of other products or other optional products? Any digital products?
How about customers? Only UK based? EU, international? Different customer groups (retail, trade, etc)?
Any particular features you need with the website, product videos, particular filter options, slick checkout, particular payment methods, etc?
Thanks, those are the sort of questions I needed to be asked! What sort of products/services do you have? Configurable products? Many of the same products but in different sizes, colours, etc? Products made up of other products or other optional products? Any digital products?
How about customers? Only UK based? EU, international? Different customer groups (retail, trade, etc)?
Any particular features you need with the website, product videos, particular filter options, slick checkout, particular payment methods, etc?
Product wise it's software. 2 levels, main and basic, but with a sliding scale in cost when more or bought. So first one costs X, 2 and 3 cost Y, 4 - 6 cost Z etc etc
It's global, with a main focus in the US. Just one single customer group, we sell to them, nobody else in the middle.
We have a website that hosts everything else, but in the past we've only done direct sales and whilst the new owners discuss a larger role out, one product needs something that can be setup quickly to capture user data and take payment.
jonamv8 said:
How technical are you? Do you know Wordpress for example? Can you code at all? Are you happy to give away a slice to a provider of the solution.
We need to know more
We have a website already, and we have a few javascript guys kicking around, but we don't want to include the devs in this, it's something that needs to be plug and play as we will replace it in 6 months We need to know more
theboyfold said:
Product wise it's software. 2 levels, main and basic, but with a sliding scale in cost when more or bought. So first one costs X, 2 and 3 cost Y, 4 - 6 cost Z etc etc
For the ultimate in simple solutions, https://www.sendowl.com/ is great. Might fit your needs depending on how you set up your pricing etc...Oh also worth a look: http://codecanyon.net/tags/price%20calculator - you could set up one of these to calculate price, then pass along end price info to checkout with sendowl or shopfy.
In fact, sendowl has a really neat popup/lightbox checkout so you could use one of those price calculators, and then when order now is clicked, really nice simple pop up checkout!
Shopify is great, not sure if you can hack it to add a price calculator - perhaps this:
https://apps.shopify.com/buy-the-measurement
Couple of other options for price calculator:
http://www.gravityforms.com/features/form-builder/
http://www.wufoo.com/
Seems to me though like you don't need an ecommerce store provider as such, more a custom price / plan calculator then a hosted checkout solution.
Some combination of the above could be put together inside a day
http://www.gravityforms.com/features/form-builder/
http://www.wufoo.com/
Seems to me though like you don't need an ecommerce store provider as such, more a custom price / plan calculator then a hosted checkout solution.
Some combination of the above could be put together inside a day
jammy_basturd said:
Dejay1788 said:
Shopify is incredibly easy to set up and starts off cheaply. You can get a store up and running over a weekend.
But then you're locked in and if you're successful it starts to get expensive.jammy_basturd said:
But then you're locked in and if you're successful it starts to get expensive.
How is that? You pay for a theme, or use a free theme. Choose the best plan for you, even upgrade to there unlimited plan. If your needing that the cost isnt that much anyway. The only thing that annoyed me was the price in dollars. I like to know everything in pounds. Hi, I run a few online shops, I started off on a hosted site (www.ekmpowershop.com) which validated the idea and started the orders off and then moved onto various self hosted and now my sites are all Magento + 1 Opencart site.
I would strongly recommend just going for something like EKM or Shopify to get started, whilst its £25 ish a month, it's nothing compared to making your own site, and if you're not paying someone to do it then you won't get anything decent up and running over night.
Go for EKM or Shopify, get it up and running, if it's successful you might pay more fees on Shopify yes, but then you'll have a proven site growing every day earning money to spend on a new custom built site.
Take the easy site route, concentrate on selling, then upgrade later.
I would strongly recommend just going for something like EKM or Shopify to get started, whilst its £25 ish a month, it's nothing compared to making your own site, and if you're not paying someone to do it then you won't get anything decent up and running over night.
Go for EKM or Shopify, get it up and running, if it's successful you might pay more fees on Shopify yes, but then you'll have a proven site growing every day earning money to spend on a new custom built site.
Take the easy site route, concentrate on selling, then upgrade later.
MrSparks said:
Hi, I run a few online shops, I started off on a hosted site (www.ekmpowershop.com) which validated the idea and started the orders off and then moved onto various self hosted and now my sites are all Magento + 1 Opencart site.
I would strongly recommend just going for something like EKM or Shopify to get started, whilst its £25 ish a month, it's nothing compared to making your own site, and if you're not paying someone to do it then you won't get anything decent up and running over night.
Go for EKM or Shopify, get it up and running, if it's successful you might pay more fees on Shopify yes, but then you'll have a proven site growing every day earning money to spend on a new custom built site.
Take the easy site route, concentrate on selling, then upgrade later.
Add to those options: Bigcommerce I would strongly recommend just going for something like EKM or Shopify to get started, whilst its £25 ish a month, it's nothing compared to making your own site, and if you're not paying someone to do it then you won't get anything decent up and running over night.
Go for EKM or Shopify, get it up and running, if it's successful you might pay more fees on Shopify yes, but then you'll have a proven site growing every day earning money to spend on a new custom built site.
Take the easy site route, concentrate on selling, then upgrade later.
jammy_basturd said:
Dejay1788 said:
Shopify is incredibly easy to set up and starts off cheaply. You can get a store up and running over a weekend.
But then you're locked in and if you're successful it starts to get expensive.veevee said:
I don't like their commission fees, but IME, all in all, it costs about the same as self-hosting an equivalent site.
What do you term as the commission fees? Is there anything beyond the prices outlined here that I should be aware of?https://www.shopify.co.uk/pricing
The transaction fees, is this what you mean as commission?
jammy_basturd said:
Yea, I've just reminded myself of their pricing structure and it's not so bad any more. Last time I looked I'm sure their payment fees were higher which made large stores expensive.
We are high cost and low volume, so the 20p per transaction isn't a worry. We currently pay 3% if we have a client paying by CC over the phoneGassing Station | Business | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff