Online Shopping Websites

Shopping online (ecommerce) offers customers significant advantages over actually getting out in the car to visit the shops:

• availability - an online shop is open 24 hours a day, every day;
• no pressure - you can take your time from the comfort of your own home and decide what you want to buy and for how much without any feeling of being pressurised;
• price comparison - you can also quickly visit other sites to see if you can get the same product cheaper.

Pick your shop template - only £995!!

You could have your own ecommerce shop very easily and cost-effectively by selecting from one of our template shops. There are dozens of design themes and colour options to choose from, just pick the one that is right for your shop and we'll do the rest. To have your shop implemented at this low price, just supply all your images and shop data in the format we will specify and your shop could be gaining sales in a few days! Here's a few sample shops to look at - please note that as these are only samples, some of the buttons don't do anything.

Design = Executive	Design = Contemporary	Design = Clean CSS Layout

To the seller, an online shop also offers several advantages:

• a cost effective way of selling your particular product as you don't have to maintain costly shop premises and sales staff;
• it's relatively risk free - starting with a few items, sales patterns can be assessed before the decision is made to increase the number of items or expand the website.

We use Actinic ecommerce software to develop our on-line stores. Actinic is a specialist UK provider of EPOS and ecommerce solutions for small and medium retailers. Founded in 1996, Actinic has supplied solutions for thousands of companies in the retail sector, both online and offline. Look at an example of one of our on-line stores built using Actinic software.

Actinic Express is an easy to use online shopping cart solution that includes everything you need to sell on the internet. Whether you are a new start-up, or an existing business looking to expand online, Actinic Express will get you trading on the internet, fast.

Doing it yourself? - we can help.

If you are setting up an on-line shopping website using Actinic merchant software (Catalog or Business), we can sit with you and provide guidance on designing your store, structuring your catalogue, setting up payment gateways and operating your store.

Glossary of Terms - an explanation of some of the more commonly used terms in ecommerce, e.g. Merchant Account, Payment Gateway, Secure Server.