Electronic commerce or ecommerce sites are websites that deal with selling or buying products or services and/or financial transactions. There are some other definitions for this term; however, this is one of the mostly accepted definitions. For instance our site is an ecommerce site, as it deals with selling domain names and web hosting services.
Ecommerce is one the most cost effective ways of promoting your business, increasing your profits and delivering better services to your clients, it can remove all geographical boundaries and time differences with working for your business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can think about such a site as your online store, a real highly automated and profitable store that brings exceptional convenience to your customers.
Today ecommerce is becoming a lifestyle. The Internet has been growing at a rate that most people could not imagine, every day millions of people access the web to conduct business, sale or purchase products or services and look for information. Many merchants have already established their web presence with the capability of direct online sales to accommodate their growing market demand. Do you think you still have to wit to do so, or it's time to act?
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Ecommerce sites could have some or all of the following features depending on your requirements and objectives. The more features doesn't mean better performance, but means higher cost of website creation. So it's important to optimize the features based on your requirements assessment.
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Search
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Product catalogues
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Secure pages
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Order form
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Shopping cart
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Online payment processing
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Buyers' interests and habits monitoring
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Auto responders
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Billing
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Shipping
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Business to business transactions
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Inter company transactions
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Customer service
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Knowledge base
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Technical support
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Post sale customer survey
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