Book Bunker
E-Commerce Plan for accepting e-Payments
I am glad to help you with the process to set up a shopping cart for your new e-commerce website. I am glad that things are going so well since we set up your website and that business is growing for you.
According to what you told me, you believe that you may be losing sales since the customers currently have to call you at your brick and mortar store, and make a payment over the phone. I agree that this is not optimal, and specifically not an efficient use of your staff’s time. We need to look at your options, and see if we can come up with a reasonable plan of action to increase your sales, and to keep your customers happy.
Shopping carts: What they are.
Your website needs what is called a shopping cart. It is just like a shopping cart that you use when you go to the grocery store, but this one resides electronically in your website. It holds items that your customers want to pay for until they make some form of payment for their order.
The main objective from your point of view, you do not want to lose customers. From the customers’ point of view, they want to feel that they are in control of their purchase, and they want it to be simple. (1) The most common means of purchasing online include: (1) Credit cards (2) Online Bank Checks
Most shopping cart software will calculate the shipping cost from where the item will ship from, to their destination. Many also have a preferred shipper such as FedEx or the Postal Service, and will give you a choice of carriers if that option is available. There is also typically a delivery
