E-commerce and on line shops
With the advent of the broadband age, most homes can now recieve broadband, the Scottish Borders being one of the last regions to be switched on, everybody is shopping online. Even groceries can be delivered to your home, all you need is a credit card and internet ready computer.
Now is the time to get your business selling on line. E-commerce is the means of selling goods over the internet. It has four main parts:
- A product listing for displaying goods for sale
- A shopping cart system allowing users to pick products, add them to a basket, review their shopping basket and proceed to a checkout area where they enter their shipping requirements and eventually get redirected to a secure web site where they pay for their order
- A payment system that receieves and encrypts credit card details, verifies the details and either authorises or declines the payment. Examples of these are paypal or worldpay
- An order processing system where the site owner can log in and view what products people have ordered, or even what products are being looked at and how often. The owner can then verify that payment has been recieved, generate and print an invoice, a packing/despatch slip and ship the order all from within the website. It is a full content management system
All our ecommerce solutions are different and so is the price depending on specific e-commerce requirements. Everything is negotiable. All our on-line shopping solutions are custom designed, bespoke applications that are tailored and designed around the customers requirement. Many companies will try to build the customers requirement around their e-commerce engine making the assumption that the customer does not really know what he/she wants and the customer may end up with a nice site but not what they were wanting in the first place. At Forge Server Solutions our philosophy not to be concerned whith how we are going to do something, only in what we are trying achieve as the end result. Our track record and client testimonials are proof enough.
Search Engine Optimisation and Internet Marketing play an enormous role in all of our e-commerce solutions. The reason that anybody would want an ecommerce website design is to sell products. Statistically the number of products your website sells is directly related to the number of people visiting your site and we are of the opinion that driving traffic to your site is in everyones best interests, the client, their customers and us. We are so confident in our Search Engine Optimisation and Internet Marketing skills that we have in the past designed, developed and hosted e-commerce sites absolutely FREE of charge but instead accepted as payment a small percentage of the net profit on each sale. We always made money on those sites.
For more information or a free, no obligation quote then please email us on helpdesk@forgeserversolutions.ie
