Customers often wander what makes professional e-commerce solutions so expensive and inaccessible. A simple online store integrated with an online payment system costs from £500 to £1 500, whereas a complex solution equipped with a proprietary CMS and integrated with online payments can cost from £3 000 up to £10 000. Of course, respectively to customers’ needs and expectation, the solution can reach even £50 000 and more. But does the price makes the real value and functionality?

An e-commerce solution does not have to be expensive to be effective. There is much room for some savings that do not affect its functionality and options. Just look at your prospective e-commerce solution as if you were looking at a website equipped with some additional software and carefully define all your needs. Then try to answer these questions:

1) How vast variety of goods will be offered?
2) How advanced browsing options are required?
3) Are filters necessary?
4) Will a commercial CMS be efficient?
5) How advanced graphics design is expected?

Answers for these five questions will help you successfully define areas of the project where some significant, but harmless savings can be made.

Finally, when you get a quote remember it prices much more than you really need. For this reason it is good to contact the website design company and discuss the quote in details!

 

Each e-commerce solution, together with an online booking system, belong to the group of dedicated applications that are fully adjusted to customers’ needs and requirements. As a dedicated application each online store is designed to fulfill all the unique expectations generated by every line of businesses. It means that – accordingly to the range of selling goods, as well as the actual size of the enterprise – various online shops may be easily equipped with simple or more complex functionalities.

E-commerce solutions are usually integrated with online payment systems that enable the customers to pay for purchased goods via the Internet. Some systems, like well-known Pay Pal enable the customers even to use their credit cards to pay for their shopping online. E-commerce solutions are also frequently equipped with pictures of the products and various types of browsers that are used to look for certain goods without the need of browsing the list of products manually.

Although we all seem to know what an online store is, some of us are still prone to take no notice to the fact that well-known eBay and Amazon are perfect examples of elaborated and very complex e-commerce solutions. That, on the other hand, illustrates how advanced this applications can be. Unfortunately, the advancement of the solution makes the price and the regularity seem to be quite obvious: “The more elaborated the online shop is the higher is its price”. For this reason some entrepreneurs decide not to expand their business into online stores. But an online store does not have to be a great investment. There are many functional solutions in reasonable prices. Just remember to provide the website designing company with all necessary information describing the kind of an online store you expect before you ask for the actual quote.

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