ECOMMERCE
E-commerce systems enable your business to sell its products or services over the internet through your website. In 2009 there were close to £410 billion* worth of ecommerce transactions and that figure is rising year by year. If you also take into account that over 50% of businesses purchased products or services over the internet, then maybe it's time for your business to take advantage of the huge revenues available through ecommerce.
There are many other benefits when thinking of having an ecommerce system built, mainly: You can reach a much wider audience, in fact all over the world, and you can sell to the entire world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The whole process can be automated, which brings us to another benefit - a reduction in operating costs. Automated systems and payment portals could replace an employee or even a team of employees.
Ecommerce systems are software programs that are attached to your website. These programs interact with the user, your website and the various payment portals that are available to automate the transaction seamlessly. The transactions are carried out securely either through Paypal or alternative payment processing systems.
An ecommerce system or shopping cart usually follows the process below:
- Website contains a list of searchable products
- User can browse, view more info on certain products
- User clicks an 'add to cart' or 'buy' button
- The product is then added to the user's shopping cart
- Once the user has finished, they can checkout, usually by pressing a 'checkout' button
- The user will then make the payment either through paypal or a credit card
- Money is transferred immediately and will show in your bank/Paypal account
- Once payment is successfully received, you can send products or arrange services
We use the latest software and procedures to ensure all of our ecommerce systems are easy to use and secure, giving you and your customers peace of mind when ordering online.
If you feel your company could benefit from switching to online sales, then please give us a call so we can discuss in more detail exactly how we can help.
* - Statistics from Office for National Statistics
Related services
