Ecommerce online stores

Ecommerce online stores are one of the modern online technologies that very few know much about beyond the fact that you select products, go to the checkout and input your credit card details. We hope to summarise what you as a potential client needs to know and what makes the difference between a high end professional ecommerce online store and a mediocre one. Contact us to find out more.

Your ecommerce online store will consist of three main sections:

• The site itself, the layout and design.
• The back end to control your products.
• A method of taking credit card payments.

Firstly the web site itself the site itself must be cutting edge and 100% professional. Anything less and potential clients will be distrustful of your company and most likely go to a competitor who has invested in a professional company. At FCOnline we use our web design portfolio and our web design templates to make sure you know just how good your site will look.

Next we have the back end that will control your products. Most companies will use an 'out of the box' solution that is generic and will not control you site as well as a bespoke solution.
Why?

• Generic solutions do not optimise the way databases are meant to work to make your products load as fast as possible or be searched upon correctly. Often even beyond that they only use a slow flat file system.
• Generic solutions are never modular and capable of expansion to the standard you will want when you get to know your new system properly because companies who use generic solutions do so because they are not expert server programmers.

We only ever use bespoke solutions that combine relational databases controlled by tailored programming that are unique to your site resulting in a solution that is scalable, clean and easy to use without the superflous programming you find in generic solutions.

Finally your payment options. At FCOnline we offer a multitude of methods by which payments can be taken.