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An e-Commerce website is simply any website that sells something online for payment, it is anything from an online bookstore to a simple web page selling products or services. The range of e-Commerce solutions available are numerous and its hard to get a truly objective view of each of the solutions or products, especially when each introduces itself as one of the most secure and versatile shopping cart solutions to date.

Of course an e-Commerce website can be built from scratch and be completely customised to the clients needs, and sometimes this is the only way to do the job. It applies to those of you who really need something that is ‘outside the square’ and has business logic and ordering processes not often found in the off the shelf solutions. Be aware that the costs of building such a website can be considerably higher than any other web project just because of the custom security modules that will need to be coded to cope with the e-Commerce system.

The much simpler (and therefore cheaper) route to take is to customise an existing and well known e-commerce solution. With the variety of open source and ‘off the shelf’ solutions available its not often hard to find something that is a close match to your needs and then make small adjustments from there.

Some questions you should be asking yourself before proceeding with any e-Commerce website:

Do I accept local or international customes (or both) and what currency should I accept payments in?
Will I need to accept credit card payments online?
Who will maintain the online store and upload new products?
Do I have a limit on the products I can sell?

Hope this has been some useful information for you when it comes to considering having an e-Commerce website.

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