Hi I am going to create a small online shopping store for jewelry & clothing accessories. I want to use some ready to use CMS like wordpress etc but there are few specific requirements. 1. The CMS has to be simpler not complex with too many options. 2. For payment options, some simpler options which gives more confidence to the buyer to buy the product, give options other than paypal. 3. Compatible with mobile devices (optional) Additionally, I will use the store for two type of customers, retailers & wholesalers, so there will be 2 type of prices as well, the retailer can pay via credit card or any other easy mode of payment, while the wholesalers can pay either by credit card or letter of credit (LC). Also, tell me what if instead of opening my online sotre, if I sell on Alibaba & Ebay sites. Will that work for me? What will be the difference between selling on my site vs Alibaba & ebay? Pls help me & suggest me a low cost/free solution or CMS with shopping cart plugins & themes. Regards
If you will have a Online Store, you can just promote your site and people will directly buy from there. If you will sell in Alibaba, here you need to create "Selling Products" but here also if a person is interested then where they will land to buy products? DO you have a simple website? Or do they need to contact you to get the delivery of products. Same will be case with eBay. So I guess with an eCommerce website, you will earn for a long term via promoting your online store through different online portals. For a start you can go with word press which is a cheaper source but it doesn't support many features and even I'm not sure if you will be in need of such features. But as a start you can consider the same.
For the ecommerce store development i can offer Magento CMS and open cart CMS. If, you have small budget then choose open cart. Create you own site and do marketing in your to connive customers then user third party sources. The day by day there are lot chance to people know about your brand in market.
Hi, Zeuscart is the best free open source shopping cart software with the most advanced features. It is user friendly & easy to use one.
Hello, I am a eCommerce Developer and Internet marketer from India. I will recommend Magento if you are planning for a long time. WordPress and Open kart will have limited option. And there will be no chances of upgrading. If you have a decent budget, then please go for Magento. Magento is ideal for medium and large size eCommerce store, will all features that you many think. Please PM me for more detail, i can show you my own eCommerce store.