Building your e-business!

Revo Limited t/a Ecommerce-Web-Store.com was founded in 2004 with the vision of providing ecommerce solutions for small businesses by developing user friendly yet low-cost web applications for startup and small businesses. Basket2Go.net was developed to offer online shopping cart service to transform standard web sites into money generating e-commerce stores. Store2Go.net, on the other hand, was launched to provide flexible and affordable turnkey e-commerce store solutions.

We are now re-construct this website to provide more applications to cope with the increasing demand of e-commece needs.

Things to Consider When Choosing Your e-Store Builder

When you are looking to start your own store this is what you should have from your hosing company.

1. Your own design. Your store should not look like everyone else. Some e-store builders, such as Store2Go.net, not only let you choose the template you like, but also allow you to customise and design your own layout using html. If you used web designer to design your store, there may be 100 other stores that look just like yours only with a different name.
2. Hosting will allow you to use your own domain name and not a sub-domain or folder of their site, like this: http://yourname.goecities.com. Make sure you register a domain name and pointed to your store hosting (some store hosting company register domain name for you). You will also have your own domain name email.
3. There should be no fees payable by you other than a monthly hosting fee. Some sites charge a monthly fee, plus fees per item listed, fees per maintenance (transfer your domain name, upgrade packages etc), commission on sales and other such ridiculous charges.
4. Fully functional shopping cart that involves calculating shipping cart, postage and collecting information from your customers, such as name, shipping address, email address and so on. Shopping cart that require customer to register with the store may put some customers off, who concerns about their privacy etc. When checkout, the shopping cart builds the order and transfers the customer to payment gateway you use, like PayPal. In an ideal world your shopping cart would have passed all customer details to the gateway and the user would not have to input them again.
5. Bandwidth is an important factor when considering your provider. An ecommerce store with 5,000 visitors per month (visitors come to your site with and without placing an order) would required a minimum bandwidth of 1,000 MB (consider each web page is about 12 KB and each visitor will visit 10 web pages of your site during their visit).
6. Moneyback guarantee or free trial and customer service. If the service provider do not offer moneyback guarantee or free trial, BEWARE! If you send an email requesting their service and not getting any reply within 24 hours, DON'T TRUST!
7. Up time guarantees. Your e-business is only as good as it remains online. Make sure to go for service providers who promise you an uptime guarantee of 99% and above.