subject: E-Commerce websites as Virtual Stores [print this page] It ain't necessary for a business to have a physical existence. E-Commerce websites provide almost the same experience as of having a physical store. As the secured payment gateways and shopping carts are coming into the picture, E-commerce web design has started to make it's presence strong on the web arena. Well, these online stores have been growing rapidly over the years. Now it has become even more proliferating with the development of rich and secured payment gateways and shopping carts.
Some of the major players in providing shopping carts, checkouts, payment gateways.
PayPal.com
MoneyBookers.com
AlertPay.com
Content Management systems such as Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal offer a wide range of services for setting up E-commerce websites. These systems offer a lot of plugins, widgets, tools to make it easier for maintaining online stores.
So if you have a website, you can easily convert it into an Online-Store. Selling products is faster, easier and convinient.
Some factors that could be advantageous in making your online store successful:
The look and accessibility of websites matter more especially for e-commerce websites.
Quality and real images of your products could be crucial.
24/7 Live support or e-mail support will attract customers.
Content freshness
Occassional product offerings.
From the consumer point of view, consumers have the advantage of buying the products instantly. You just need to have debit card, credit card or sometimes even the bank account would be enough. But we would like to suggest consumers that they opt for a genuine online store or a website.
