Platforms that will help your business in E-Commerce!!!

 Hello, Everyone and welcome back to this weeks blog.

This week I’m going to review 3 online platforms that can be integrated into a website to help a business grow their online business. I’m going explain what platform I’d use for the following businesses:

•  A new Gym
• A new Clothing Boutique
• A Café

Firstly, we must understand what an E-Commerce platform is, essentially, it’s how you sell your products to your customers via online.

1.      New Gym & WooCommerce

For your new gym, I recommend using WooCommerce. They are user-friendly, customizable and have great features for selling products and managing online transactions. When setting up your website, WooCommerce provides various themes and plugins to help create a professional and visually appealing online store. Once activated, WooCommerce will guide you through the set-up process from setting your gym’s location, currency, payment methods and shipping options. With WooCommerce, you can easily add and manage your gym products such as memberships, selling time slots for group classes and even your gym merchandise. WooCommerce integrates well with popular marketing tools, allowing you to run promotional campaigns and offer discounts. It also provides excellent customer support, with managing customer inquiries, handling returns and refunds.

Please watch the video below for more information on what WooCommerce is:

2.      New Clothing Boutique & Shopify

I would recommend Shopify as an E-Commerce platform if you have a new Clothing Boutique.  Shopify is a cloud-based software, offering its subscribers access to an admin panel, where you can enter your store info, add products, and process orders. Shopify has a wide selection of free and purchases design templates to make your online store as stylish as you like, varying from clean to vibrant. The platform’s templates can be tweaked to match your own style and vibe, making it easy to customize a theme that fits your brand. Using Shopify also includes secure, reliable web hosting. Some advantages to using Shopify are: Easy to use, Low startup costs, a variety of theme designs and lots of customer support. You can also use Shopify’s own blog feature, where you can give fashion advice on or comment on clothing trends now, allowing your customers to know you better.

Please watch the video below on more information about Shopify:

3.      New Café & Square

Square is a comprehensive platform that offers a variety of tools and services for restaurants and cafes. Square enables you to set up an online ordering system where customers can easily browse your menu and place orders and choose between pick up or delivery. With square you can also manage your cafes seating arrangements, it helps you track table availability, carry out reservations and optimize table turnover. Square is great for giving analytics, it gives you insights into your restaurant’s performance. With square you can create and build customers relationships through their loyalty programs. Another great feature of Square is that you can integrate other third-party tools such as accounting software and marketing tools.

Please what the video below for more of an insight to Square:

Thanks Everyone for reading this week’s blog, Next weeks Blog I will inform you on how a business owner can improve the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website from search engines.

Write to you soon.

                                                                                    Shauna O'Leary