There are plenty of opportunities to open an online store, but unfortunately, most people don’t know about it. For example, you knew that you can already open an online store today, and for free? Then you can chase on its traffic and already in the evening to receive the first orders. All one needs is a computer terminal connected to the Internet. Next, choose one of the platforms to create an online store: paid, if you do not have time to understand or free if you want to save money and on the way! About the best platforms, you will learn from this post.
Perhaps you have long been planning to create your own online store, but you can not dare. You scroll through a bunch of questions in your head:
- How do I make my online store without having a programming degree?
- Where can I find the money to pay for the designer’s work on creating the template of my shop?
- Where will I store my products and how will I send them to customers?
But we will not dispel all these doubts in this post! There is no way.
Difficulties will be like any other problem, but you don’t have to try to solve them now until you have your own store. You don’t have to be a theorist! Solve the issues as they arrive and start with the first question: “On what platform is it better to create an online store?
When you decide on the platform and deploy your real online store, you will be at a completely new level. You will look at many things differently, the first, most difficult step will be made and you will start your way as an online store owner!
Is there the best eCommerce platform?
When you go ahead with your guts and create an online store, how do you determine the best platform and whether it suits your requirements?
There are many platforms to date: every year there are new engines, services and designers. Each case has its own specifics, it is impossible to determine the best in all the engine of the online store!
But of course, there are leaders among the platforms. You need to first understand the leaders of the industry, and then choose the ideal option for you!
All platforms for online stores can be divided into two large groups:
- eCommerce Constructor
- eCommerce CMS (Content Management System)
1 eCommerce Constructor
Next big question is Why should one buy or download a free engine? Why can’t I install it on the hosting and regularly update it?” After all, you can rent the platform and do not worry about anything!
Renting an eCommerce platform is a very interesting idea if you want to start with a minimum of money and effort! After all, renting 1 month is worth a penny, and you are guaranteed by the developer company! If the store does not take off – just will not pay the rent and that’s all!
The beauty of renting a platform for stores is that you get a ready and customized engine and you can start selling at least the next day!
The most famous online store rental service in the world is shopify.com and bigcommerce.com (minimum price: 29$ /month)
2 CMS
Whenever there is a need for wide range of functionality and full control over the online store engine, it’s better to choose a specialized box CMS!”
Online store’s boxed CMS is a specialized software product, usually written in PHP language, and which you have to fill in on your hosting.
Perhaps you have heard of CMS to create sites such as WordPress and Joomla. So here for the development of online stores, too, there are such CMS, but they are focused on sale: they allow you to keep a catalog of goods, accept payments and conduct various marketing campaigns.
Specialized CMS should be chosen in case you’re planning on remaking the engine for yourself. If large improvements are planned, it is necessary to choose the CMS, because unlike the service – it will be completely yours. You can finalize it as you want.
Box CMS can be both paid and free of charge.
If you have a limited budget, it is worth paying attention to free CMS, such as Magento. You can freely download them from the official website and install them on your hosting. But you can set it up with the help of Mageworx extensions.
In the paid segment is worth paying attention to Shopify.
And Shopify can first be used as a designer, ie to rent. And when the store will grow and need refinement, you can buy the engine and install on your hosting.
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