How e-Commerce Websites Differ from Other Sites
With e-commerce, you’re selling products online. Since you’re accepting personal and sensitive information like your visitor’s names, address and credit card numbers, it’s important to make sure that your site is secure. Since WordPress, and other content management systems are vulnerable to hackers, I would recommend staying away from them when building an e-commerce website and invest a little more money for a custom website.
Just because you’re having a custom website built, doesn’t mean that the administration panel to your site has to be difficult to manage. There are hundreds of e-commerce solutions that you can build your custom website around. I would actually recommend going this route, since they have thousands of sites online and are always thinking about security and providing updates and patches when vulnerabilities are found.
What e-Commerce Solution is Right for You?
The answer to this question, of course, depends on your specific needs. I will say that I’ve been using an e-commerce solution, called Ecommerce Templates for over 15 years and haven’t needed anything that it can’t do. It’s fully responsive, integrates with all of the top shipping providers and payment gateways out there, and has the ability to set up coupons and discounts with ease!
Many e-commerce solutions charge you a monthly fee, but for a one-time charge of only $229 you get all of the Ecommerce Templates shopping cart files to upload directly to your website. If you’re in love with WordPress (like I am) than you can semi-integrate the shopping cart with WordPress, but you’ll have 2 entirely different admin panels to keep the e-commerce and WordPress admins separate, in different databases, and safer from hackers on the shopping cart side.
If you’d like to take a look at the demo, click here. You can also log into the admin area to take a look around here. Just use username: “mystore” and password: “changeme” to log in.
If you’re ready to get started with an e-commerce website, contact me.