Merchandizer eCommerce Blog ArticleLeaving 9-5 For Your Own Ecommerce Business Part III
Leaving 9-5 For Your Own Ecommerce Business Part III
Now that you've decided on a business you'd like to run online, you have a website that is up and running and appealing to the eye of the discriminating web surfer, you're going to need two last things to make your ecommerce site, just that: a fully functional ecommerce business on the web.
Those last two things you will need are a shopping cart program and a payment gateway. Those two things go hand in hand and it can seem confusing at first but just remember it like this, a shopping cart takes the orders and the payment gateway takes the payments.
Merchandizer has some of the easiest to use shopping cart programs out there today. When you're first starting out and every penny really counts and must be accounted for, check out the starter plan for small businesses, you can have up to 10 items to sell for less than $20 per month and if your business booms, there is a shopping cart program that can handle over 500,000 items.
Shopping carts can be a real bone of contention for some people, if it's slow or asks too many questions, people will just click off your site and decide they didn't really need what they were attempting to buy that badly in the first place. These shopping carts were designed to be fast loading, easy to use and work using minimal input from the customer while maintaining full socket security so anyone making a purchase from your site can rest assured their purchase is safe and secure and that's a heck of a good advertising point for you.
And here's the greatest thing about shopping carts, they allow you to make money when you sleep. Imagine it is 3AM and you're fast asleep. Someone visits your website and decides they simply must buy that electric dog polisher for Aunt Myrtle's next birthday. They click and it is in the cart.
After the customer has put their desired items in the shopping cart, check out is a breeze. They simply fill out their method of payment and where they want their purchase sent, either to themselves or directly to Aunt Myrtle. The payment gateway will verify the credit card information, which cuts down on fraud and will process the order.
The customer will receive a thank you notice and purchase confirmation and you're still fast asleep. Now you see how an ecommerce business can free you from your 9-5 entrapment, start looking around for a business you'd like to put on the web and get ready to be your own boss!
Now that you've decided on a business you'd like to run online, you have a website that is up and running and appealing to the eye of the discriminating web surfer, you're going to need two last things to make your ecommerce site, just that: a fully functional ecommerce business on the web.
Those last two things you will need are a shopping cart program and a payment gateway. Those two things go hand in hand and it can seem confusing at first but just remember it like this, a shopping cart takes the orders and the payment gateway takes the payments.
Merchandizer has some of the easiest to use shopping cart programs out there today. When you're first starting out and every penny really counts and must be accounted for, check out the starter plan for small businesses, you can have up to 10 items to sell for less than $20 per month and if your business booms, there is a shopping cart program that can handle over 500,000 items.
Shopping carts can be a real bone of contention for some people, if it's slow or asks too many questions, people will just click off your site and decide they didn't really need what they were attempting to buy that badly in the first place. These shopping carts were designed to be fast loading, easy to use and work using minimal input from the customer while maintaining full socket security so anyone making a purchase from your site can rest assured their purchase is safe and secure and that's a heck of a good advertising point for you.
And here's the greatest thing about shopping carts, they allow you to make money when you sleep. Imagine it is 3AM and you're fast asleep. Someone visits your website and decides they simply must buy that electric dog polisher for Aunt Myrtle's next birthday. They click and it is in the cart.
After the customer has put their desired items in the shopping cart, check out is a breeze. They simply fill out their method of payment and where they want their purchase sent, either to themselves or directly to Aunt Myrtle. The payment gateway will verify the credit card information, which cuts down on fraud and will process the order.
The customer will receive a thank you notice and purchase confirmation and you're still fast asleep. Now you see how an ecommerce business can free you from your 9-5 entrapment, start looking around for a business you'd like to put on the web and get ready to be your own boss!
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