How To Plan For A Shopping Cart To Sell Tangible Products

How to Plan for a Shopping Cart to Sell Tangible Goods

http://www.tropicalcluster.com Drop us a line to discuss - [email protected]

11 things to think...

1. Do you have a list of products & their categories that you plan to sell on your site?

2. Are you aware of: - Inventory management

- Tax Issues - Shipping Issues

Gather the details


3. Return Policy Return policy is a must to mention on your shopping cart site for gaining trust of your customers. Mentioning return policy means customers are assured of having a chance to change or return a

product, for a genuine reason.


4. Creating a list of features you would like to have to manage your shopping cart website

• No of individual products on site, Stock keeping unit (SKU) in industrial terms.

• Bulk uploading of products • Discounting & Gift cards • Bundled discounts • Single product variations • Inventory management • Multiple Shipping options within country & foreign

lands • Email notification & invoices • Order / customer tracking


5. Payment Gateway There are many payment gateways available that allow credit / debit card

processing. You may be more comfortable with some whose office is located & easily accessible in the country of your business. They may have different

transaction features.

a. Paypal

b. authorize.net

c. securepay

d. checkout.com

e. paysimple

& many more....


http://authorize.net

http://checkout.com

6. Secure Payment Gateway


When selecting the payment gateway you need to make sure that all payment procedures is secure via HTTPS protocol. This ensures that all the information is encrypted during communication with remote servers and hackers will not have access to private banking information of customers. Security option is taken into consideration when making purchase decision by client.

7. Do you like any website you have seen on the web that closely fits your needs, look & feel?


8. How soon do you want to get started?

• ASAP (As soon as possible)

• In two weeks

• In one month

• In two months

• More than two months


9. What is the total budget of your shopping cart site

USD 500 - 1499

USD 1500 - 2499

USD 2500 - 3000

USD 3000 - 3500

USD 3500 - 4000


10. Have you checked availability of suitable domain name and have arranged for hosting services for your shopping cart?


11. Shopping Site Development

• There are sites such as SHOPIFY.COM that have manyfeatures built in their template and you could quickly getstarted. But there is a catch....MONTHLY FEES & FEATURESBASED ON MONTHLY FEES. You could start on your own, butto customize features, you may require to hire a programmer.

• There are open source shopping carts, such as http://www.zen-cart.com/ or https://www.cubecart.com/ which donot have any monthly fees, but if you want to extend featuresyou may need to buy plugins (one time fee) & may have to pay small amount for technical support. You will also needa programmer to customize the website as per your requirements.


http://SHOPIFY.COM

http://www.zen-cart.com/

https://www.cubecart.com/

We Can Help Develop Shopping Cart WebSite

If you are a beginner, with limited funding it may be better to get started with open source shopping cart that you do not have to pay monthly. We can help you set it up for a fee.

You can grow from a limited range to many product & varieties as you understand the complexity in each segment of managing the online shopping cart web site business.

Having a helping hand for day to day management of orders & reliable long term tie up with our team will help you smoothen the journey.

http://www.tropicalcluster.com Drop us a line to discuss - [email protected]

How To Plan For A Shopping Cart To Sell Tangible Products

Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Transcript of How To Plan For A Shopping Cart To Sell Tangible Products