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We do not take payments
These products are our current recommendations for you.
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The following discounts apply to all these products.
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Planning your online shop |
During the design, you can create the right processes and procedures to support it, and put in place the resources to deal with orders.
You need to work out how to:
- deliver your products or services to fulfil customer orders
- collection of payments
- maintain security and demonstrate this to the customer
- let customers contact you
- comply with regulations
You need to ensure that you can deliver goods or services in a reasonable time, ideally the next day. Your business should be ready to deal with calls, emails and queries about delivery - you may need extra staff.
Test your website and processes thoroughly. Start with a soft launch - perhaps just to existing customers - before giving it stronger marketing support. Find delivery methods that keep charges low.
Customers may be wary of paying online. However, you can encourage them by providing a secure area on your website for placing orders and giving credit card details. This can prevent late payment problems and helps to safeguard your cashflow. W3Designs includes secure hosting in their e-commerce package, this will ensure security of online transactions |
You may wish to offer more than one payment method to customers, such as invoicing, particularly if you're selling to businesses, or paying by credit or debit card over the telephone.
With the use of encryption technology and virus-scanning software, e-commerce transactions can be as secure as offline ones. It's important to create confidence in your shop. A professional-looking website with an explanation of your security precautions will help.
Consider how to:
- handle credit card details safely
- ensure that key information on your website cannot be defaced or altered fraudulently
- preserve the confidentiality of customer data such as telephone numbers, addresses etc
W3Designs will set up your web site to accept all or some payments through Paypal, Worldpay, Invoicing and credit or Debit Cards. We also set up Secure Hosting so that your customers details are secure.
All our e-commerce packages come with a Administration area where you the Owner can manage and control all aspects of your online shop. From processing of orders to controlling what products are available and the pricing structure. |
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