ecommerce Website Development in London, UK
- Ecommerce, online shops & shopping carts
- Video, audio downloads & podcasts
- Graphic Design & company branding
- Managing your web pages & content
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Simply, ecommerce is a way that lets you buy and sell on a website. You've all seen shopping carts on a website when you buy something; this is the visual way of showing you how much virtual shopping you actually have in your shopping cart.
ecommerce has grown massively in the last few years; Amazon is an example of a larger website and notonthehighstreet.com as a smaller ecommerce business.
But even though anyone with basic computer knowledge and a few pounds in their pocket can set up an ecommerce business, there are as always other factors that need to be taken into account.
There are good ecommerce websites and really bad ecommerce websites out there and here are some tips on how to make sure you’re one of the better ones:
Shopping cart: a must for any online business. Make sure yours is the right one for what your business needs. Popular free shopping cart software is called Zen Cart.
Online transactions: make sure that they are secure. SSL (secure socket layer) encryption can protect sensitive information, including credit card and personal data during an online transaction.
Online payments: There are several choices out there. A simple way of achieving this is by opening an account with PayPal or WorldPay or you could choose to have your own business merchant account.
If the thought of doing it yourself is scary, Karma Technologies uses various ecommerce software to achieve what you want. Take a look in more detail at our ecommerce software