E-commerce Projects
Planning is one of the cornerstones in creating a new e-commerce project. If properly planned, the project implementation will be more consistent and thus save much time.
So, if you have decided to start an e-commerce project, you should know the answers to several questions:
- What is the purpose of your website? Your portal should be clear and easy to use. Visitors should reach the information they are looking for by making no more than 3 mouse clicks.
- Who is your buyer? The proper definition of your target group will have effect not only on functionality, but also on design of your website.
- Does your website need any special functions? Subject to your on-line business, you may use certain special functions that are not used by other portals, for example, sorting products by certain criteria or fields for entering special discount codes. All these functions should be considered in advance.
- What are your limitations? Everybody has them. It may be technical limitations, budget, technology, etc.
- Do you have all the tools you need? Creating e-commerce projects usually requires image processing software, e-commerce and e-shop management tools, and finally such basic things as a domain and a hosting provider.
- It is also very important to describe the future or the existing working process: acceptance of orders, collection of products, logistics, invoices, etc. You should foresee how many people and what units will participate or are participating in the working process. You can do it yourself or with a help of aCoobe process consultant. Having this information it is possible not only to develop an e-commerce solution, but also to optimise the process itself, thus saving costs for human resources.
aCoobe specialists are ready to help you to create a technical solution for your e-commerce portal. Based on our experience, we can share several ideas:
- Design should be defined by usability and results rather than aesthetics. Although you may be fascinated by beautiful lines, owners of e-commerce portals should care about the effective design, design that makes visitors buy or fill in request forms.
- The situation in the electronic space is constantly changing, and those who respond to new business circumstance faster enjoy greater benefits. That is why it is crucial to choose the e-commerce platform that is flexible, easy to use and fast to improve. aCoobe develop less complex and standardised e-commerce systems on the basis of the open source system Magento. For individual e-commerce solutions we use aCoobe platform created and constantly developed on the Django framework.