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Ecommerce Web Site Design Portal Solution

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Rapidly growing competition and ever-changing market trends have elevated the need of efficient shopping cart software. There is no end to attractive and accessible features that a successful ecommerce solution must have. Choosing the right Ecommerce Solution provider is an intellectual resolution for your business growth. With our extensive e-commerce experience, we are ideally positioned to help you deliver a comprehensive and effective e-business strategy that will encompass communication, marketing and personnel issues for your company's ecommerce solutions. Credited to latest technologies and vast selection of capabilities, an ecommerce solution can be used to construct an interactive ecommerce web site and a communicating store for every business.

We specialize in ecommerce development Services such as website promotion, website management and maintenance, ecommerce web site development and design, ecommerce portal development, we can assist you with:



Setting up a profitable B2B or B2C e-commerce storefront that is completely customizable to meet your business and brand requirements.

Sell products to a global marketplace with taxes, duty, discounts, and shipping costs automatically calculated.

Manage multiple promotion and discounting schemes.

Completely manage their online store via the Admin panel, a web-based management area.

Sell more products with intelligent merchandising tools such as cross-selling, promotions, and automated e-mail.

Manage visitors to the site - keep track of who's on the site and what they are doing.

Manage the shopping basket - keep track of who wants to buy what.

Manage customers - handle the conversion from 'visitor' to 'customer', along with all the order capture information.

Process orders - take the basket and turn the contents into order fulfillment.

Our highly functional and simple to use ecommerce web designs harness the full potential of the internet and enable your customers to easily buy from you.



Ecommerce Web Site Design Portal




Building a Portal

The ecommerce web design portal you'll build depends on your intentions. Though portals are simply doorways on the Internet that bring together sites and services organized about some common theme, they differ widely in the areas they address (local community, interest group, commercial activity or market sector) and the additional features they supply discussion forum, surveys, expertise directories, etc.


Marketing is critical, as income derives from directory listing and/or site advertising.


Ecommerce Web Site Design Portals

Some portals are little more than a few pages with multiple website listings, and these obviously need no special portal software to build. Pages are typically pared down to essentials: simple listings, graphics kept to a minimum for quick downloads. News and free offers are obtained cheaply or free by arrangement with other sites, and site maintenance revolves round marketing.


Marketing is indeed the key requirement. Companies won't pay decent advertising rates until site traffic is very appreciable, and site traffic won't grow until the portal offers what visitors cannot find elsewhere.


The second concern is the hosting platform. Sites receiving tens of thousands of hits per day won't survive on virtual servers shared with other sites. Dedicated or in-house servers are the order of the day, with all the maintenance costs of employing expert IT staff. Research your market niche carefully before buying portal software: it's these other aspects for which you'll need deep pockets.


Portal Types

In order of increased cost and difficulty in setting up, your options are:


1. Add portal features to an existing ecommerce site, e.g.:


targeted emails


surveys


newsletters


discussion boards


chat pages


calendars of events


resource directories


free software or services






2. Rent an ecommerce portal. The package should allow you:


full control over appearance and makeup of site


unlimited directories and subdirectories, with access control


control over search-engine attractiveness of individual pages


foreign language versions if required


facilities for visitors to rate content


facilities for banner ads, including rotation manager


full control over facilities listed above, i.e.:


emails


surveys


discussion boards


chat pages


resource directories


free software or service libraries


newsletters


3. Use a commercial package to build an ecommerce portal with the features listed above. Host on your own or a dedicated server.



4. Use a commercial package to build a customer relationship management portal with these facilities:


directory of customers:


contact and company details


customer feedback


company turnover, history and terms applying


purchase history


employee handling account


inventory control


order tracker


inventory control


supplies tracker


directory of suppliers


contact and company details


company turnover, history and terms applying


supply history


employee handling account



5. use a commercial package to build an information portal providing these facilities:


directory of customers as above


inventory control as above


directory of suppliers as above


public relations and marketing


press releases


annual reports


faqs


company events


customer surveys


marketing reports


ad tracking


customer services


feedback


surveys


problem ticketing and management


human resources


employee details


directory of skills and experience


positions vacant


office management


responsibilities and company procedures


room/meeting scheduling


departmental faqs


warehouse control


inventories


supply chain management


order placement and tracking


6. Build from scratch (i.e. code yourself) an information portal with the features listed above.

Packages for options 3, 4 and 5 will need the facilities listed in option 2.

Option 1 is not difficult to build, and many all-in web hosting companies will supply the features at little extra cost.

Options 3 to 5 are onerous undertakings, and option 6 obviously requires a strong IT department. In fact, some 40% of all portals may be built with specialized platform software shortly, and our resources page lists the major players.



You should also be aware that:


'Portal' has become a buzzword and the term can now mean almost anything.


Information portals often require major restructuring of company procedures, when benefits may be slow to appear.


Boundaries between various types (including portal or vertical portal) are somewhat blurred, and there is little to distinguish information portals from large corporation extranets.


You can outsource portal building to Application Service Suppliers, but a recent Gartner report suggests that many deals are not viable.


Information / Content Management Portals

Large corporations commonly amass enormous quantities of information that is needed on a day to day basis. Portal software to build such sites is listed in our resources section.


Advanced Ecommerce Portals

Also listed on our resources page are customer relationship management portals because a major ecommerce company usually wishes to integrate ecommerce into a wider IT strategy. Indeed, by starting from scratch, the usual problems of information portals incompatible formats, conversion to electronic format, departmental rivalry, who does what questions can be largely avoided.


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About the Author:
Shane is the head of content department of Param Network, a Delhi based IT firm that offers a one stop solution for all your offshore outsourcing related needs.

web development, ecommerce development


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