Stoesonline, Is ECommerce Right for Our Business?

 

Storesonline is your one stop ecommerce shop. If your business features products or services for sale, undoubtedly the topic of eCommerce has come up. What is eCommerce? Literally defined as "the conduct of financial transactions by electronic means," it refers to purchases made over the Internet. There are popular slang terms such as ebusiness, click and mortar, dotcom, cyber-mall and multiple spellings but they are all basically the same thing. Don't let the different phrases confuse you, it all comes back to the same principle: selling online.

So how do you know if selling online will be beneficial for your business? Storesonline has all the answers for you.  There are a few basic questions that can help you with this decision. First and foremost, can you afford to develop a professional eCommerce storefront on your Web site? You've heard the phrase "if you can't do it right, it's not worth doing at all". This is especially true in regards to eCommerce because people will not purchase from your Web site if it looks amateur and is poorly done.

Custom developed eCommerce sites can cost tens of thousands of dollars, but pre-built shopping cart solutions such as Storesonline can provide your business with a professional eCommerce storefront for a fraction of the cost. Another benefit of a program like this is whereas a Yahoo or eBay store may be less expensive to get going, it's going to be less customizable, and as your business grows, you'll outgrow the site and need to start over again.

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StoresOnline, Volusion Unveils Latest Version of Its All in One Ecommerce Solution

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Austin, TX (PRWEB) October 2, 2007 -- Volusion Inc., a provider of ecommerce solutions () and website services, just announced the long awaited release of the newest version of its ecommerce solution. Almost each of the over 40 new features had at one time been requested by a current Volusion store owner. Lynn Bender, one of Volusion's Forum moderators, had the lucky privilege of announcing some of the new features before Version 5's official release. As the Feature Enhancements section of Volusion's Forum notes, "Volusion will definitely review each suggestion" made by site owners. In regards to telling customers about V5's new features, Lynn notes, "I used the phrase "you asked for it, we added it" to remind our customers that they are the ones driving the innovation."

Among the new innovations are enhanced site features and functionality, advanced product and category management tools, advanced order processing features, new CRM tools, design improvements and additional integrations. A major upgrade to V5 will also be seen in the form of new shipping functionality, which includes true shipping integrations. With the new version, merchants can now retrieve negotiated live rates from every major shipper and those live rates will take into consideration package dimensions, products shipping separately and orders shipping from multiple warehouses.

A major feature request was also filled with V5's ability to offer full "per product" dimensional shipping support for UPS, a feature that few ecommerce solutions provide. A merchant can now enter in the dimensions of a product to calculate shipping based on size and weight, helping immensely in situations where a large item may weigh very little. The new version also includes support for multiple warehouses, allowing warehouses to be set on a per product basis with the user's backend calculating live shipping rates from multiple points of origin.

Included with these new shipping features are faster live shipping rates, and advanced label printing. The live shipping rates module has also been re-architected, resulting in a noticeable difference in the speed in which live rates are returned. Also, store owners can now easily obtain live rates and create and print customer's USPS, DHL WorldWide Express and FedEx shipping labels directly from their own administration panel. Learn more about these new features plus several others by visiting, V5's Ecommerce Shopping Cart Sofware () features page.

Since 1999, Volusion has streamlined and improved thousands of online businesses with its award winning eCommerce solutions and integrated shopping cart (). With PCI/CISP certified hosting and innovative eCommerce software with advanced features, users can create and grow successful online businesses of all sizes, and across all industries.

If you'd like more information on this topic, please contact Volusion at (800)646-3517. With offices in Simi Valley, CA and Austin, TX, Volusion can be reached online at

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