FAQ: Opening an Online Shop
If you want to design and run an online shop, once you have decided what products to sell, the first step would be to create an online shop webpage, initially you have to decide on the name of the online shop, then you would need to choose an online shop creation platform. Say if you want a platform with higher flexibility and would enable your own style to stand out, then you can consider WordPress Woocommerce. You can also find some very experienced website development companies to help you create your online shop, since those companies have a lot of experience, they would know how to add in some important essential functions, and furthermore, can provide a one-stop service for the running of your online shop, including the maintenance service and for service provider creation afterwards, enabling you to save lots of precious time creating an online shop to focus on your business instead. Moreover, website development companies have professional webpage designers, to help beautify and enhance the design of your online shop. Since your online shop is used for business purposes, the importance of the webpage design and appearance is vital. At the same time, the user experience (UX) of the online shop design is very important, in combination with the online shop’s practical usage, for example the incorporation of electronic consumer vouchers, membership sales, electronic subscriptions, storage managements, membership managements, members’ subscription history and points collection services etc.
As a professional webpage development company, East Tech is the partnering company of several well-known payment companies. You are welcome to contact our webpage development consultants for further enquiries.
There are several choices for online shop platforms, a rather well-known one is WordPress Woocommerce. Our company would recommend WordPress Woocommerce, simply because they do not collect a commission fee and has a lower running cost – very suitable for small-middle enterprises in Hong Kong.
In addition, in terms of their design features, the flexibility is higher to suit your individual company’s branding image.
The most important benefit is that, compared to other online shop platforms which collect monthly fees, Woo Commerce allows online shop to run permanently, thus you won’t have to worry about your online shop de-existing because of not paying a monthly fee.
The online shop design features are very well-equipped, and there are a lot of plug-ins to add in features that align with the client’s online shop design’s developmental needs.
We will help the clients with setting up an online store, and designing a suitable style as per the clients’ needs, adding in their required online shop creation features and languages. After the clients upload their products themselves, they can already sell the products online- as easy as that!
Once your customers place their order, you would be able to see it backstage and dispatch the order automatically. Whilst the online shop is being created, we will help our clients to add in more features, and to give some opinions on running an online shop, and will conduct some online marketing promotions that is relevant to the clients’ needs to help them expand their online shop development business.
As a professional webpage design company, East Tech is the partnering company of several well-known payment companies. You are welcome to contact our webpage development consultants for further enquiries.
The steps for opening an online shop is in fact very simple. The first step would require preparing some images of the products, videos for explanation and word descriptions, because your customers could only know about your products through your introduction.
The second procedure is to help you online shop create a name – the more special the better, and you can also use this name to apply for a webpage domain name- you can enquire about the steps of applying for a domain name through us.
The third step is that if you plan on creating a new business with your online shop, it is best if you choose a webpage design company to help you customise your online shop design, because it is not as easy as you imagine to create one yourself as it requires very experienced design techniques to create a high quality online shop design to attract customers. Unless you know how to do design using computer applications, otherwise in general it is very difficult to design an online store from scratch. You can spend your precious own working time on your business rather than to navigate around the applications used to create an online store– thus it’s best to find a webpage design company to help with it instead.
As a professional webpage design company, East Tech is the partnering company of several well-known payment companies. You are welcome to contact our webpage development consultants for further enquiries.
There are many online payment methods nowadays, including: Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, AE. After the COVID pandemic, more and more people choose to use Alipay, Wechat Pay, Payme and FPS.
As the online shop manager, you can consider what payment methods your own customer group would use to help add in the payment methods for your own online shop, because different people have different payment preferences, the more payment methods the better.
As an online shop manager, you would need to know about the commission rates of different payment methods. As a partner of different Payment Gateway payment methods, our online shop consultants can provide you with different payment method company’s commission fees for your reference.
What you should pay attention to is that different payment companies have different pay dates, for example T+3. As an online shop manager, you should understand your own cash flow to choose the most suitable payment company.
Moreover, different payment companies have different set up fees and monthly fees- some of them only have commission fees but not set up fees, for example: PayPal, Stripe etc- this would be more suitable for small and middle enterprise companies in Hong Kong.
As a professional webpage design company, East Tech is the partnering company of several well-known payment companies. You are welcome to contact our webpage development consultants for further enquiries.
