Online Store e-Commerce e-Business Developer
There is a difference between custom e-commerce and custom designed online store where one requires custom coding (ECA Cart) which could be costly; the other is achieved at a reasonable cost by integrating custom design in a pre-built e-commerce platform (DTW Commerce). We can build you a quick e-commerce website in PHP if you have a small budget for a small e-business. Otherwise, if you need a robust highly efficient custom design and custom e-commerce software solution with subscription requirements or intuitive shopping cart for highly secured custom e-commerce website, ECA Tech Inc. can build that for you too using Microsoft ASP.NET technology. Our certified programmers are here to help you.
ECA Cart vs Online Store by DTW Commerce
ECA Cart is a custom shopping cart normally written in Microsoft ASP.NET. If you have a decent budget and you require a highly secured PCI-DSS compliant shopping cart with many custom features, ECA Tech Inc. can help! We can roll out a highly secured and efficient custom solution for you within months.
However, if you need a cost-effective eCommerce solution, online stores by DTW Commerce maybe a better choice for you. Magento, OScommerce, Zen Cart and DTW Commerce are all developed and run on the popular open source LAMP platform (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). Using Open Source platforms provides greater support resources and is the most cost-effective situation.
What Are Online Stores?
Online Stores or E-commerce websites are simply website that sells products or services online. For some time now, almost all businesses having to work harder to keep sales revenues from falling and stop costs rising too quickly. Although some companies are obviously doing better than others, at the simplest level, they only have two options to do better. One is to sell more at a higher price or reduce their cost of selling as much as they can without adversely affecting sales or customer service. Latter option is typically carried out by using technological advances to implement business ecommerce or electronic commerce store instead of high-cost physical stores.
Business Benefit
The benefit of ecommerce allow the business to expand in the global market without spending much. The market segments are successfully narrowed down and getting across to targeted customers all over the world becomes easier. There are customers that are scattered all over the globe and with the aid of ecommerce the vendor can get across to them in a very short amount of time. The expenses of travelling are saved and it becomes a cost effective method to market and generate business on an international scale.
Consumer Benefit
From customer perspective, buying product or services online via ecommerce online store has a lot of benefits. By shopping online, the consumer eliminate the need to physically walk-in to the store and thus avoiding traffic jam and saving gas money. As the product descriptions and specification are well laid out on the web site, consumer can make an informed decision before making payment, do due researches on product before buying. In addition to that, the consumers are always protected by the money back guarantee which were endorsed by the bank or payment gateway that ensure consumer gets their money back in case of non-satisfaction.
Internet Business Revenue
The business activities, sales and the purchase of items through internet all fall under the much broader category of ecommerce. The extent of the gigantic rise of ecommerce can easily be determined from the fact that the total revenue in the year 2010- 2011 was nearly $170 billion and it is projected to touch $200 billion in 2011- 2012.
What's Not Productive
You should surf through some e-commerce sites of your area of interest to get the design idea and you must prepare well with a very good planning for your website or you will be wasting time and money during the development phase of your website. Just starting an e-commerce site in a big rush without a clear goal or concept because everybody else is doing this, might prove counterproductive and you might lose money instead of making it.
