At Congregatio, we know that e-commerce is about one thing -  selling goods, services and digital products online.  This means that choosing the right e-commerce solution and e-commerce hosting package is the most important decision you can make when deciding to sell your products online. Choosing the right e-commerce solution is just the first step.  For your products to sell well and continuously sustain high online sales you must ensure that your ecommerce software solution provides
  • An easy to use and friendly to navigate Shop front.  The shop front is the online interface between you and your customer, it is essential that the design and flow of the e-commerce interface be easy to use and seamless for your online buyers.  It should be easy to find the right products and a simple click to make purchases, enquiries or request customer support.

  • An embedded, secure shopping cart.  The Shopping Cart is where all the real work takes place in an ecommerce website.  The shopping cart will serve to process customer information, product data, execute payment transactions and much more, depending on the solution you decide to purchase.  A high-spec ecommerce shopping cart solution will enable you to interact fully with your clients with promotional marketing, after sales support, share comments, product votes and so on.

  • The ability to process online payments.  When making the decision to develop a site for online sales and utilise e-commerce software, it is common for people to overlook the details of how they actually intend to receive their online payments.  Receiving payments via ecommerce software can normally be executed in a number of ways, the most common is via a Paypal transaction although you could also facilitate online epayments facilities via your business bank account.  Most of the major banks do provide e-payments facilities although we suggest you do your research as charges are wide and varied.  Shop around and see which e-payment solution is right for you ecommerce website.

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