Setting up an eCommerce website / online shop

[XJSJohn]

Seeking any recommendations for a platform / service provider that can provide something along the lines fof the following.


can host a website that will provide the following services

product listings
customization of purchase
shopping basket
Visa / MasterCard payments
integration with Amazon and Lazada
Direct purchase from website


Also any idea what the costs are per month for such services (looking at around 20 - 40 transactions a month.

[XJSJohn]

cheers folks,

Had found a few websites with "top 10's" and Shopify (BigCommerce, Volusion etc) cropped up on most, was hoping that you guys were going to mention one of them!

Also cheers for giving me an idea of the costing also.

I assume that is on top of website hosting (email, storage etc) or do they provide all that inclusive?

I know I can get this info from them but any "useful" info on all thee guys does seem to require them to contact me!

Again, the powers of PH rock

Cheers guys! Will update with progress in a few months

[XJSJohn]

jammy-git said:

What sort of personalisation of products do you need?

branding and logo'ing ....

[XJSJohn]

DSLiverpool said:

XJSJohn said:

branding and logo'ing ....

Suggest you use someone local as it can be hard to set up a design / logo remotely however we are using a freelancer in Manchester for a sports website and he is pretty amazing - he designs for web rather than just designs. If you want his info let me know.

that's the bit that's in house

Factory in Indonesia, and the worlds our oyster for sales ...

[XJSJohn]

DSLiverpool said:

XJSJohn said:

that's the bit that's in house

Factory in Indonesia, and the worlds our oyster for sales ...

Generically what product type ?

corporate branding / marketing/ merchandising stuff.

Office coffee cups through to trade show logo'ed give-away's etc

[XJSJohn]

Digga said:

LDN said:

Digga said:

The other thing which is pretty good, as an alternative to Shopify, is Ecwid. Similar sort of thing.

Ecwid is expanding very quickly and is becoming a very very nice platform indeed.

I completely forget why, but we opted for it rather than Shopify (which looks very good) a few years back and it's done all we expected from it, plus more. My only, very minor grip is the hours their telesupport people keep - US biased.

It looks like a very nice option, sadly those support hours would be a deal breaker for us, being 12 hours removed from USA .....

Cheers though Shopify looks like the one, better dust off my design ability