Ecommerce solutions for Small Businesses!

 

The year 2020 – 2021 has brought new challenges in the Business community and especially to small businesses. Due to a long period of lockdowns shop owners (Mom and PoP stores), have suffered huge losses and many more closed down.

But on the other hand, it is an opportunity in disguise and has open new doors for the technology that will help small businesses to reach out the customers through “Online Medium” or E-Commerce Platform.

As technology has evolved there are platforms that help small businesses owners, individuals launch there store online, spread information, and display their product and services Such as:

·         Squarespace

·         Shopify

·         Webflow

·         Square Online

·         Wix

·         GoDaddy

·         BigCommerce

·         Wordpress.com

These platforms are not only easy to operate but they do provide hosting services. Which not only takes a lot of cost burden from the users but also relieves them from the maintenance services? Below are some of the advantages of these eCommerce platforms.

Advantages

·     Cost – E-commerce platforms provide cost-effective and economic solutions. They have free plans and paid plans which are of very low cost and users can choose according to their need.

·     Templates — these platforms provide beautiful templates that act as a quick and faster alternative to designing. Users have the option to choose from 100’s free and paid templates.

·  CMS — eCommerce platforms include a full CMS that lets you define custom collections with fields like rich text, photos, files, and more.

·         Some other important features of these platforms are :

·         payment gateway,

·         Design tools,

·         Template customization and logo Designing.

·         blogging,

·         scheduling software,

·         appointment scheduling,

·         email marketing,

·         Social media management, a graphic design tool and a simple CRM.

·         Blogging features.

Photo galleries and even more unusual features like podcast hosting and donations.

In these turbulent times, these platforms are like silver lightning in the sky for small business owners or individual sellers. Further, more and more people and companies with the help of the eCommerce website and Mobile commerce platforms are reaching out to newer geographies and looking to absorb more customers worldwide.

Conclusion

Small business owners should make use of these platforms to take their business online and target both global and local markets.