There are many home business owners who might want to sell their proud products online but might be intimidated by various ecommerce technologies and procedures. Also, there are some who want to create online store to sell their digital products but confused by the many ecommerce platforms available in the market.

If you are just starting or intended to look for a more robust, reliable but yet affordable ecommerce platform for your online store, you might want to consider getting a hosted ecommerce solution. Usually most home business owners would either purchase and install the ecommerce software in their servers or use an extension or plugin to add an ecommerce functionality to their blogs or sites. They are both feasible ecommerce solutions as they give you full control but you will face constant upgrading and maintenance issues which might be a problem for those of you who are not so technical savvy.

What Is Hosted Ecommerce Solution?

A hosted ecommerce solution is all-in-one ecommerce solution provided by the ecommerce hosting companies. They not only provide the hardware but software as well and with additional features like marketing, analytics and reporting tools. They will constantly upgrade their ecommerce software and provide regular maintenance so that bugs could be fixed immediately. This will help to eliminate the upgrading and maintenance issues and give more peace of mind to home business owners.

While there are many advantages of using hosted ecommerce solution, you might want to be careful as some of them charge transaction fee from your ecommerce site revenue. And it could be very expensive when your online store grows bigger but fortunately there are some ecommerce hosting companies do not practice this. One of them is Bigcommerce, they only charge a flat subscription fee for using their services and the fee is very affordable, starting as low as US$25 per month.

An Online Store That Can Be Setup in Minutes

Bigcommerce offers you everything you need to set up an online store. It is like having a real physical store with everything planned, decorated and furnished with relevant cabinets, lighting, furniture and storeroom. What you need to do is to move in your products and lay them out nicely for display.

Similarly, Bigcommerce offers you an online store that is ready for business anytime. They have a helpful step-by-step guide that guide you what to do in order to get your online store up successfully.

Free Online Store Templates

If you are worried about the look and feel of your store, they have 100+ free and beautiful storefront templates that you can pick one to set the look and feel of your storefront instantly. You can also change the colors anytime to match the branding you want to create.

Bulk Import and Export

One of the most time-consuming tasks of creating an online store is inputting the product information and it will become extremely tedious when you have a lot of products. It might takes ages to input all the product information such as product ID, photos, description, pricing, tax rate and shipping cost. Luckily, Bigcommerce has a bulk import function where it can import your spreadsheet but provided your spreadsheet must follow a standard format required by Bigcommerce. At the same time, it can bulk export your product information so that you can save it into external backup.

Automatic Organization of Products

One common problem for every ecommerce business owner face is how to organize products? Whether it should be by categories, sub-categories, sub-sub-categories, brands, pricing, manufacturers, color & size? The list can go on if you have a wide range of products but Bigcommerce makes it easier for you to organize as it has already catered such features in its system. You only need to activate to use it so your visitors then can easily surf through your store based on different criterion.

Viewable on Mobile Devices

If your target customers are smart phone users, you will be happy to know that all the online stores built using Bigcommerce is mobile phone friendly. In other words, you online store can be viewable on most mobile devices without the hassle to build another mobile friendly store.

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Looking at the above incredible ecommerce features, you can be rest assured that building an ecommerce website is not as intimidating as you thought. There might be several ecommerce building options available and you can always choose a simpler option to begin such as a hosted ecommerce solution. Once you are familiar with the in and out of ecommerce technology and how the whole things work, you can always look for an add-on or advanced ecommerce solutions.

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