subject: 10 Questions To Ask Before Ecommerce Website Development [print this page] E-commerce, a small word with big capabilities; you may be looking to start your new ecommerce
business or to expand your retail-wholesale business by leveraging benefits of online shopping cart
and no doubt there may be several questions popping out of your mind. Strategically, collecting all
these questions and getting answers from ecommerce consultants will give a right direction to your
business plan.
Let us make your work easier. Below you will see some set of questions that can be used as checklist
for your ecommerce website development. You can use them in your requirement gathering
template also while contacting Web Development Company or Ecommerce Development Company:
Questions to ask before selecting web development company:
1) Which web technology do you recommend for ecommerce website development, and
why?
2) What are the recommended online shopping carts that can be used for web
development?
3) Should I use paid shopping carts or open source shopping carts?
4) What are the recommendations for using hosted shopping cart solutions with monthly
billing, or custom developed ecommerce portal with one time fees?
5) Which payment gateway do you recommend in my country of residence? What are the
suggestions if I target local markets or International markets?
6) How will you manage online shopping cart security? Which SSL certificate do you
recommend?
7) How flexible is your recommended online shopping cart? Can I add more features in
future?
8) What other benefits you will offer in your online ecommerce development services?
9) Can you add a wordpress blog to my website? Do you provide wordpress development
services?
10) Can I manage my ecommerce website from some admin panel, or would require some
ecommerce developer to do so?
Once you managed to get satisfactory answers to these questions from some ecommerce website
development company, or from some ecommerce web consultant, combine all these answers in a
matrix. This will help you to understand what kind of ecommerce application you need and what
shopping cart options are available in market. Thats not all; you will finally get to know best web
development company for your web application development. Happy E-commercing
