Ever since we started our export business, we have been based on out of the country, and direct phone/e-mail contacts. I am becoming quite interested in developing a web store to open up a different client base. We have the product and good prices, but basically have no idea how to set up an internet store. I know there are folks here that operate this way, and would much appreciate some advice on how to proceed. Many thanks. Begin now......
Yahoo had business/web store packages a few years ago. They have the cheap free sites and they have the professional, have your own domain name, web stores as well. I'd go for the latter.
Easy to work with, easy to design, easy to maintain and keep track of.
IIRC they just route things through paypal for the most part.
I've played tomatocart a bit at work. It's free. Setup was quite easy, but we have our own server and an IT background, so YMMV.
Yeah I'd go with something prepackaged like the Yahoo stores if you don't have any web devs working for you.
Godaddy also has packaged sites with web stores that are supposed to be easy to use.
http://www.godaddy.com/ecommerce/shopping-cart.aspx?ci=72972
cwh wrote: Ever since we started our export business, we have been based on out of the country, and direct phone/e-mail contacts. I am becoming quite interested in developing a web store to open up a different client base. We have the product and good prices, but basically have no idea how to set up an internet store. I know there are folks here that operate this way, and would much appreciate some advice on how to proceed. Many thanks. Begin now......
Ebay webstore?
Setup a website for the business, and for your "catalog and sales" have a link that goes to your Ebay site. Just a thought.
I used oscommerce as my web software for years. It does take some html knowledge to install and modify, but nothing to terrible.
It's free and has a helpful support forum too.
Brian wrote: I used oscommerce as my web software for years. It does take some html knowledge to install and modify, but nothing to terrible. It's free and has a helpful support forum too.
Tomatocart is based on oscommerce. Initial setup was just a matter of literally dragging and dropping it into our apache web server.
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