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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Goose on January 18, 2016, 11:03:35 AM
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Hi
Do any swaggers run an online store? If so what platform or host do you use?
I was involved in one about 9 years ago that used Zen Cart and I am keen to get back into it, however i'm just working out platforms are good to use these days. There seems to be a lot more around.
Goose.
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I think you'll fined a lot of isp's will provide you with 1
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Goose...
As you said.. there's a 1001 around.. each one focussing on a different target market.. how many product will you have ? estimated transactions per month ? What is your technical expertise ? Feel free to PM me for a chat..
Regards
Niel
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Have a look through the showroom, and at the links Via that... probably easiest...
Oh and if your doing an online business, put the ****ing prices on the page instead of making people go through the shopping cart before they find the price.
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And have frieght cost calculator at the start not end of the process.
Cheers Glen
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Have a look through the showroom, and at the links Via that... probably easiest...
Oh and if your doing an online business, put the ****ing prices on the page instead of making people go through the shopping cart before they find the price.
And have frieght cost calculator at the start not end of the process.
Cheers Glen
Agree with both of these, it's the best way for a retailer to tell me they don't want my money.
Definetly don't use the ones that ask for the buyers name, address, email and phone numbers so they can apply for a quote.💩
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Yep,
My son manages my website, nice to have an IT person in the family:)
He does the coding, design manages etc, some of his sites are:
www.hkbelect.com (http://www.hkbelect.com)
https://dev.onteh.net.au/hardwiredpc/ (https://dev.onteh.net.au/hardwiredpc/)
http://www.gradysauto.com.au/ (http://www.gradysauto.com.au/)
http://www.redwoodparkprimary.com.au/ (http://www.redwoodparkprimary.com.au/)
http://www.wynnvaleprimary.com.au/ (http://www.wynnvaleprimary.com.au/)
http://www.rosstoyrealestate.com.au/ (http://www.rosstoyrealestate.com.au/)
If you need any more info please pm me and I'll send you his contact details.
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Thanks guys
Skill level with databases, hosting and scripting is fairly high, but I’m terrible at the graphic design side.
Will take note of the suggestions for shipping calculators and upfront prices. I agree totally on that.
Currently looking at Shopify, which runs as SaaS.... previously worked with Zen Cart which is a free package and you BYO hosting and setup. The templates and security in Shopify seem a lot better but you also have less control over customisations because you don't own all the code. A number of the really handy customisations in Shopify are fully supported but you have to rent them at $10/month for example. Whereas in Zen Cart and similar packages (osCommerce etc) the customisation are almost always free and unsupported.
The background here is that I’m looking to move out of Sydney and thus need a job in the NSW country. I've only ever done enterprise IT (nearly 20 years) so finding a job is a daunting prospect and the IT field I specialise in doesn't have jobs outside of the CBD of the big capital cities and its gradually offshoring and/or consolidating into major cloud players anyway.
For the move I'm looking at towns like Wagga, Albury or Mittagong (basically towns with a population range 10,000 to 50,000 and within 5 hours of a capital city) and sure there might be the odd IT job with the local uni, local council or a local law firm, but you have to wait way too long for them to come up and i think i would feel a bit underutilised in them.
As such, i'm currently leaning towards starting a few online stores at home in Sydney and then moving the stores with the family to the new town. When there i'll run the stores and offer local small business IT support (via local newspaper) until i find my feet outside of IT, or if the online stores and IT support go well i will stick with that long term. I have no idea what to sell in the online stores yet and that is the next challenge.
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I’ve been doing this for about 20 years, started long before the CMS with the add-on commerce modules.
I use Avactis for all my clients, not cheap but support is good, perfect for merchant cards even over the phone sales, PayPal or Cash, Taxes can be added, shipping and postage can be calculated, discounts on multiple items in fact it will out preform most packages.
You will need reliable hosting with SSL, I use Hostgator for my hosting.
Hope that helps
Regards, Chris.
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We run a small online store for our Ozisuzu.com.au forum. We use OpenCart and it works ok for the small amount of items we sell.
http://merchandise.ozisuzu.com.au (http://merchandise.ozisuzu.com.au)
In the past I used to run a slightly larger online store and I used OSCommerce, it was also easy to use.