Affordable Ecommerce Business Solutions
Setting up an online shop is quite a technical and time consuming job. There are really only two options to consider if you setting up an online shop:
- Build the site using static HTML pages; this may be the easiest solution if you are not planning on having many products.
- If your online shop is going to have a wide variety of categories and products, using online shopping software on your server is the obvious choice, it will save you a lot of time and effort while maintaining and updating your site.
With the above points in mind, using automated online shopping software to manage and update your site with new products, special offers and new categories is a must for anybody looking to maintain their site with ease.
osCommerce Solutions
osCommerce is a software package that you can use on your website that will display your product range in a neat and organised fashion.
Most website development organisations out there will recommend using their own homemade e-commerce online shop software, but here at Streamline Marketing we recognise osCommerce as the leading open source online shopping software. There are many advantages for using osCommerce as opposed to a homemade online shopping software:
- Due to the fact that so many large companies use osCommerce worldwide, there is a massive amount of technical support across the internet for a wide variety of problems that may be encountered while using osCommerce.
- osCommerce has been tested by a large number of contributing programmers worldwide, this gives osCommerce a massive advantage over a homemade software package developed by just a few programmers.
- osCommerce can be changed and add-ons can be installed to customise your online shop if needed.
I can write an endless list of advantages for using osCommerce as opposed to a homemade online shopping software, but the number of companies on the internet that use osCommerce speaks for itself.
How can Streamline Marketing help?
osCommerce offers some great features and automation of your online shop, but the setup of the software can be quite daunting for anybody without prior experience. osCommerce uses a database to run the site and list your products, anybody without experience in this area will find this extremely difficult.
Streamline Marketing can offer our knowledge and expertise in this area; we can help with the setup of the software on your website hosting server and recommend which website hosting allows you to get the most of the osCommerce software.
Designing a template and a look for osCommerce can also be very difficult and time consuming. We will be able to offer our advice on the cheapest solution for your osCommerce website design.
