Ecommerce wesite design & development
A good Ecommerce website design includes good content about the product, preferably showing the site to be the authority for the product. Ecommerce enables the firms and individuals to conduct their business and transactions through their website or other available resources on the internet. This provides you the opportunity to not only make your products or services availabe to the global market but also let the customer choose, buy and pay online through your website 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
For this you need three main components at your website-
1. Shopping Cart- This is a software used to make product catalogue of the site available for online ordering, whereby visitors may select, view, add/delete, and purchase merchandise. You can place your merchandise in the cart and then check out when you are all finished. To enable the customer browse, choose the product, specify product specifications and quantity, and keep track of his shopping basket. It may include any custom made functionality for your store. On the website the sells the products or services online, the shopping cart is a common metaphor for the pages where a user reads and makes selections.
2. Payment Collection- In online selling, you need some interface to collect the payments from the customers. You can collect the payments online through credit cards. In order to handle any decent volume of credit cards, you need the assistance of a payment processor. Usually they have their own high speed very secure links directly to people like Visa and Mastercard. There are so many credit card processing companies who provide interfaces to connect to their payment gateways so that you can accept secured credit card payment.
3. Security- You need some security mechanism to inspire confidence in the customer that it is safe to provide his credit card information. Some websites also use Secured Socket Layers (SSL) for shopping carts also. It depends on your requirements and budgets. Most of the time you need SSL for payment processing. You will get it automatically when you sign up for a merchant account for credit card processing. If you need, you can integrate your shopping cart with SSL. For technical reasons, a unique IP address is required to enable SSL. Once an SSL certificate is installed on your web site, then the lock symbol can be enabled to provide secure encrypted communications between your buyer and your ecommerce application.