Setting Up an ECommerce Site for Your Store: Tips from Experience Leave a comment

Setting up an e-commerce site for your store is one of the best but most challenging things you can do. Having gone through the process myself, I want to share some important tips that will help you do it right. Over the years, I’ve relied on the services of IbraCodes, and they’ve been a crucial part of my website’s success.

Step 1: Choosing the Right Platform

One of the first and most critical decisions was choosing the platform on which to base my site. After much research and comparison, I decided on WooCommerce. I recommend talking with IbraCodes to choose the platform that best suits your needs.

Step 2: Design and Build

Building a website isn’t just about aesthetics; it also needs to fit the market. You need to understand where to invest your resources in the build. For me, it was essential that my customers could easily navigate and find products by SKU, as that’s how my industry works.

Step 3: Uploading and Managing Products

When it came time to upload products, I realized how difficult it is without a proper system in place. Initially, I had to manually gather Excel files from my suppliers and upload them inefficiently. In this aspect, I highly recommend consulting with a web development company. In my case, after talking with IbraCodes about product uploads, I found out there’s a more efficient way to do it using an Excel file with images. This saved me a lot of time and continues to save time whenever I update prices for a large number of products.

Step 4: Integration with Payment and Shipping Systems

There’s no doubt that being able to securely accept payments and quickly ship products to customers is critical to the success of any e-commerce site. Therefore, it’s essential to ensure that you’re working with smart and advanced systems. I highly recommend consulting with a web development company to build a solid and reliable infrastructure that will support these operations effectively.

Step 5: Marketing and Promoting Your Site

Content, content, content! To ensure my site reached as many potential customers as possible, I had to invest in marketing and promotion. Writing a lot of content was necessary to improve my site’s Google ranking.

Finally, I recommend that every store today opens a website. It not only enhances your visibility but also opens up new opportunities for online sales. If you need help with this, I highly recommend IbraCodes, a company that has already built two leading sites for us, and we are very satisfied with the results.