How to Open an Online Store

To open your online store for business you will need to prepare the following information:

ADD PRODUCTS

Usually, there are 2 ways to get your products into online store:

You can add your products via online control panel (go to "Add new product" menu) or
Prepare list of your products in csv (MS Excel) file (Go to "Export/Import" menu in your store to generate an example)

If you have less than 50 products, you may consider adding them via control panel unless you have some experience with MS Excel. If Excel is not your thing and there are too many products to enter, please send us the file you have so we can check if we can import it into the store for you.

Tip: if you do not have the list of products, we might be able to capture products and images from your current store or your supplier's website (you need a permission from your supplier or drop shipper to use product information and images). Please send us more information for a quote.

SETUP SHIPPING

Unless you offer free shipping for all products or sell only downloadable products, you will want to charge customers for the shipping. You can setup shipping formulas by destination zones (by countries, states, zip or postal codes) using weight, order total or number of ordered items or use real time shipping rates by UPS, USPS, FedEx, CanadaPost or any other supported shippers. We will help you to set this up in your store but you need at least some general ideas on how much you are going to charge for the shipping.

SETUP TAXES

Your store supports any combination of taxes your government can think of: US, Canadian, European...and any custom tax rates or combinations. You can set different taxes by destination zone (by countries, states, zip or postal codes). If you having difficulties with this, let us know how much tax you want to charge and which state or province and we will set this up for you.

ADD LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Privacy Statement
Terms and conditions (click here for example)

CONFIGURE PAYMENT PROCESSING

You have many ways to get the money from your customers: accept Paypal payments (Standard, Express checkout and Paypal Pro are supported), use Google Checkout, accept checks, purchase orders, fax and phone orders. By default your store is set to accept credit cards for manual processing - store will capture customer's credit card information, encrypt it and save it with an order, so you can see this information in secured Control panel and process it offline with your existing credit card terminal. You can easily set up automated online credit card processing as well. Just signup with one of 130+ supported payment gateways and enter required account information into the store > Payment methods menu.

SELECT STORE DESIGN

There are many customizable templates to choose from but you do not have to spend a lot of time and money on the design to start selling online. Just select a free or low cost ready-to-use design to start and go live. Too many merchants are playing with store design for months spending valuable time and money instead of focusing on promotion and marketing. Online store is a dynamic database driven system - you can change the design at any time without loosing any product data or text you modified.

Click here to select your design...

Your store is ready to take orders! ...but before you start mass advertising, let us know you are going live. We will check your store and let you know if there are any problems before you bring thousands of visitors to your online doors.

If you have any problems with the above tasks, just let us know! We are here for you!

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