E-Commerce Catalogs: Displaying and Selling Products
The online catalog has revolutionized retail and wholesale selling throughout the world. Catalogs for product vary extensively in complexity, configuration, degree of customization available, display options, wish lists, and many other parameters. Some have personalization tools available, some do not. Some can handle a wide variety of media types, others simple images and text.
The degree of sophistication also entails degrees of cost. Complex systems obviously cost more than relatively simple systems. A variety of vendors, such as PayPal and Yahoo Stores, offer ready made systems for uploading product information, that simplify the process, but also restrict certain functionalities.
With the variety and varying complexity of current e-commerce technologies, administering and selecting e-commerce tools can be a daunting task. catalog structure, provision for inventory management and display online, and integration with in house back office accounting and other systems should be evaluated, if needed.
A catalog for all seasons...
What are the considerations to be evaluated when selecting an e-commerce catalog system? What goes into administering an e-commerce catalog? Are you able to maintain the catalog system yourself? Can you add or remove product easily? Does the system address shipping charges, taxes, other add on fees? Does the catalog allow for product attributes such as weight, varying colors, multiple products within a single SKU? What mechanisms does the catalog provide for tracking inventory, if any? How is the software supported?
This area of the site contains articles, notes, and links to other resources that will help you answer these and other questions.
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Building a Web Site: Ecommerce - some intereseting comments on e-commerce (+info)
Common Security Vulnerabilities in e-commerce systems - n article by Linux Security.com News: Network Security (+info)
Critical Components for E-Commerce on the Web - A quick overview of how e-commerce works (+info)
DMOZ - The Opens Source Directory, full of great resources. (+info)
Dr, Dobb's Reference - Software tools, guides, etc. (+info)
E-Commerce - Selling on the Web - To most people, e-Commerce means "credit card sales on a Web site" and that's they way we'll talk about here.
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Effective e-Sales Copy - Selling online is mostly about psychology of people. Learn the most critical elements of your sales copy. (+info)
EVRSOFT: A developer resource - a fairly comprehensive collection of tools, articles, scripts, etc. (+info)
Fraud control - an article on Fraud Control for the e-commerce site... useful, important, and insightful (+info)
Frictionless E-Commerce: What It Takes to Succeed Online - E-Business is alive and well... and consumers are still buying online (+info)
Global e-Commerce & Taxes - An online resource and introduction to international e-commerce and related tax issues. (+info)
Looking for a Shopping Cart - Choosing the right software can make a huge difference (+info)
Online Sales Projected to Be Strong - The difficult economic conditions and the events after September 11 are casting a cloud on retail sales. Not so for Internet entrepreneurs: industry analysts project online sales to remain strong, even increase (+info)
Selling on the Web: What is Your E-Commerce Strategy - How can a small business succeed on the Web? (+info)
Source Forge - Open Source resource for PHP, MySQL, and more... (+info)
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