Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Ecommerce Software for Your Online Store

If you ever wanted to have your own online store, the biggest problem might be your shopping cart software. Why ? Simple, because it connects your customers and you as the owner of the store. You really have to convince customers about :

  1. Easy to use shopping interface.
    You may have the best products with the best competitive price. But if your customers find difficulties when they browse your shop, they can move to other stores with that simple reason.



    Look at the screenshot above, an efficient shopping cart interface with good features :

    • Category Menu.
      Helps your customers to find the right category of what they want to buy. Additional "New Items", "Hot Sale", "Featured / Recommended Products" menus can be shown here to give suggestions to your customers.

    • This is for customers who don't know manufacturers, brand names, models, or version of the product they're looking for. Basically, customers can enter anything here and matching products will be shown. If they think that the standard search box is not enough, they can use "Advanced Search" instead.

    • Products should be well presented. But it doesn't have to mention all features. Only important features are shown here. The complete information can be obtained by clicking on it.

      On the bottom customers can edit the quantity of individual product. Then after clicking that little cart symbol, the order will be shown at shopping cart list.



  2. Safety
    Customers will love buying something on your shop if you are really can be trusted. It takes time to make customers believe, but these things will help you to make it faster :

    • SSL Certificate. You must obtain it from trusted authority. Technically, it is a protocol that provide secure communications between your customers (clients or end users) and your web server. Clients don't have to be authenticated, but your server must be clearly authenticated so customers can be sure that it is safe to execute transactions with you.

    • Hacker Free Seal Sign. An excellent reminder to your customers that you are taking information security seriously. But this not an urgent thing to have. Usually, an SSL Certificate is enough.

  3. Privacy

    You must tell customers how you will use their submitted data. You should make a clear statement about it and you must obey it.

  4. Payment Options
    Consider to implement some payment gateways because your customers can be from any country with any background. Ashop Commerce supports 65+ trusted payment gateways, I'm sure they are sufficient to handle all online orders from around the world.



About Ashop Commerce


With this ecommerce software, you only need a domain name (you can also register from the website) and they take care the rest. You don't need to host it yourself. It has a lot of features, including 128bit SSL Security, SMS Alerts, custom design (you can also build from scratch from available theme or ask them to design it for you), additional pages, etc. Too many to be listed here :-)

What about promoting your new online store ? Ashop Commerce handles it too, don't worry. Their SEO kick start package will make your new store listed on search engines focused on your wanted keywords.

They will really help you, step by step to build an online store, from planning to growing your store. Live support is always available.

Still not convinced ? Try 10 days FREE TRIAL without credit card requirement or just try the DEMO.

And webmasters or publishers can also earn from affiliate program !

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