Why Inventory is most powerful Back-end Ecommerce Tool?

Posted by Akshay Vyas June 13, 2013 0 comments
Internet made e-commerce possible. Both business-to-business and business-to-consumer relationships can now be successfully managed. E-commerce giants such as eBay and Amazon have made their fortune over the last decade or so.
Inventory and Order Management for Ecommerce
Online shopping is a very significant internet activity in the US. That means there is a frenetic pace to the internet traffic and shopping transactions. Orders can be rapidly fulfilled only if inventory records are thorough, accurate, and up to date. To support such heavy online activity, an efficient back-end inventory system is a must. There are two popular programming technologies, Asp.Net and PHP – an inventory management software uses for. Inventory Control Software built with these technologies ensure more customization than built with others.

With this background, inventory management systems should be web-enabled and integrated to work seamlessly. Information such as SKUs, prices, product descriptions, and so on is a critical part of inventory systems. In addition, other product details, images, location by warehouse, thumbnails, etc. are also important. Adequate meta-tag information needs to be added to such software.
The best inventory systems also offer order fulfillment system and automatic updates capabilities. The inventory system needs to reflect a true account of the actual stock available at any given point in time. 

Other important attributes that inventory solutions include are, 
  • Order trigger reports generated when preset re-order levels are reached
  • Usage-trend reporting by product categories, which provide a snapshot on inventory utilization rates 
  • Support for bar-coding and RFID
  • Web-enabled feature that allows system log-ins from virtually any location that has internet access
  • Added flexibility to incorporate linking to other business systems (e.g., manufacturing systems, purchase order systems, and order fulfillment) 
  • Capability to generate inventory usage reports, order forecasts, and product return reports
The best inventory management system is one that enables businesses to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through effective, timely, and memorable service. Running an online store or business without such a system, becomes terribly complicated and negatively impacts the business.

10 Tips to skyrocket your eCommerce Business

Posted by Akshay Vyas May 13, 2013 0 comments
Ecommerce Business Development Tips
There are hundreds of thousands eCommerce shops inundating the internet. Some sites skyrocket, some stagger, while most of them sink without a trail. That makes us wonder what makes an eCommerce store successful.

The must-haves that contribute to the growth of popular eCommerce sites such as eBay, Yahoo, Amazon and many others. Is it sheer luck or thoughtful strategy?

Our search has helped us arrive at ten essential factors that significantly contribute to the success of an eCommerce business.

These factors are:    
  1. Sell only those products that fetch higher margins
  2. Sell products that grab eyeballs
  3. Learn online marketing with special focus on search engine marketing
  4. Attract advertisements
  5. Hire an experienced web developer
  6. Keep adding more and more products to your store
  7. Write good descriptions and upload better pictures
  8. Ask customers for product reviews
  9. Bank heavily on SEO
  10. Spend money only if you are assured of returns 
These factors may seem naive to some, but we tell you it has the potential to propel your business profits. Still wondering? Then stop wondering and apply the above mentioned strategies. Rest assured, it would work for you.

Ecommerce Web Development Process begins with Planning

Posted by Akshay Vyas April 30, 2013 0 comments
The ecommerce web development process does not always follow specific steps and stiff, as each project has its own peculiarities and we must acclimatize to them consequently.
Ecommerce Web Development Process
Ecommerce Website Development Process
Here we aren't covering the type of shopping carts, no. of payment gateways, and use of shipping methods, you may go for. This is actually a back-end database driven process that runs after integrating these system to front-end, a design made by html, css etc.

Despite making the things easier, we can say that there are some steps already defined. In general, it can be useful if you keep on building any website.

Let's see them in details:

Planning:
To begin you must decide what target audience the website is looking for. This is vital, because the designs and contents depend on this. You may have some questions that we can answer before starts planning, There are…Is ecommerce website targeted for children or adults? Do you access the public Internet from work, from school or from home? How fast is your Internet connection? Do they want to be informed or entertained? Be sure to answer these questions from the start for your website.

Website Architecture:
The website should be well structured, both for the benefit of visitors and for easy maintenance. Plan the website on a slat or schematic, flow diagram type. In this step, you are going to make a map of the site and the ecommerce development agenda.

Do not forget that you should plan website to make a change so that it doesn’t look so simple since most of the websites are constantly changing and well planned website simplifies this process.

Graphic Design:
In this step with the information already collected in the previous steps you design the look of the website, it is important not to confuse the graphic design for web sites that used to print and other areas because of technical limitations (and opportunities) web pages are foreign to most designers trained in other media. The file size requirements, limitations of color and screen resolutions are very different from those that are printed. This is front-end areas and will be designed nicely to encourage more visitors.

Website Programming:
In this way the project has been well defined and the ecommerce graphic design process already completed. Now the application program and the database to join it with the design of the interface as defined previously. This is something like back-end programs that manages your website behind the screen.

Quality control:
All web design professional should have this step in the process, is very important to test the website application exclusively designed to make sure that no errors. The website should be passed through all the web testing process.

Hosting and maintenance:
This step often depends on the type of project, but for a complete project you choose a good hosting provider that includes the ultimate in speed and stability, e.g. Unix / FreeBSD, PHP, Apache, and MySQL. 
Every website needs constant maintenance. Do not make the mistake of assuming that once you are online, everything is already done. If you want people to return to your site, you must add new material to your website, email to respond, and maybe links to update usage statistics that follow. For a small site, this can take a while as little as two or three hours a month.

Maintaining a large site can be a full time job, so you have to consider the cost of constant maintenance within your budget. Working with the same people ensures consistency, a new company or person not have the same working knowledge of your website, so keep satisfying your returning visitors.

I hope this will be useful; we are also consulting on Yahoo Store design and development with a user centric approach mainly focusing usability and information architecture.

Ecommerce in 2013: Selling More with New Tech and Device

Posted by Akshay Vyas April 2, 2013 0 comments
Don't look back in 2012 for ecommerce, it is set to grow exponentially in 2013, what with the advent of mobile devices that make online shopping instant, fun, and too easy. Your regular site is also all set to reap the benefits of the new technology that helps you sell more from your e-commerce store.

What technology can ecommerce business owners turn into the best shopping experience for their customers?

Here are few technologies you should invest in for achieving your objectives in 2013:

Advanced Search: The technology that makes available millions of search results at the click of a button was already available. Now you need technology that presents a comprehensive list of product names as well as related products right there in the drop down suggestions from the search box. Your search box can offer thumbnail images, categories, product details, and pricing in the description for each result. Help your customer shop easily with advanced search capabilities.

Field Validation in the Checkout Form: Imagine a customer’s frustration when he/she must fill out all the fields in the checkout form all over again because one of the fields could not be validated. Validation capabilities integrated into the form itself will simply alert the user to fields that could not be validated. The user can just fill in appropriate information and proceed through checkout. No need to fill in the details all over again, no matter how few fields are used.

Real-time Inventory: Customers are also frustrated when they reach the product page and find that the color, model, or size of the product they want is not available. To prevent such a situation, the products pages themselves can carry information on the exact items available in the store. You can even provide an idea about when the out-of-stock products will be available.

Product Videos: There are plenty of ecommerce features to communicate the look and feel of your products to your customer. Product zoom and animation are some of the other such features. But they are no match for short videos on the product page that can be re-sized to fit the screen. Short videos will load fast and convey an accurate idea of the product to the shopper.

As the year progresses, we are likely to see a plethora of new features introduced for e-commerce stores. It is important to keep tabs on new features offered by ecommerce development services providers. Keep your eyes peeled and your e-commerce store updated with the latest and best features for your customers. It will prove to be a worthy investment. 

Watch space for more in-store features....

Multi-Store Ecommerce Platform: An Advanced Solution for Webstores Management

Posted by Akshay Vyas March 1, 2013 0 comments
Managing multiple storefronts (including Yahoo store, Amazon store, eBay storefront, and ASP.Net or PHP ecommerce stores) is a tough task. It is made simple by a multi-store ecommerce platform that enables the business owner or his admin to manage all the stores from a single dashboard.

Of course, it is not easy to build a multi-store ecommerce platform. It is a highly advanced system and requires great investment in terms of both time and quality development inputs to ensure that it functions exactly as required.
e-Smart Ecommerce Suite

e-Smart eCommerce Suite from Ydeveloper is an example of a brilliant multi-store ecommerce platform that enables you to manage all your different stores using just a single database and a single dashboard. The dashboard makes it easy as a breeze to manage your stores. There is a high degree of flexibility in inter-store management that can be effected right from the single-panel dashboard.

Specific Instances when a Best Multi Store Ecommerce Platform is Most Useful:

If you have customers based in different countries but your product line is the same, you have the capability to manage a product in all of your stores. If you make changes to the pricing of the product from the admin panel, that change is reflected in all the other stores. Every store can offer product details in the language of the country it caters to.

  • You can set up multiple stores that share the same or a set of inventory items, even if those other stores are on the same platform or on different supported platforms. Just add a new store with a single click on the ‘Add Store’ button in the panel.
  • You can assign the ecommerce storefront or platform that each store uses. You can also configure a level of inventory or set one from the other stores.
  • Each store you build can have a separate domain name. Your stores can have either overlapping sets of keywords with a common thread running through or entirely diverse sets of keywords for each store. Hence, a multi-store ecommerce platform brings some great advantages from the perspective of search engine optimization (SEO).
  • Your multiple stores will also enable you to create and manage pages, accounts, and inclusions on multiple social networking sites. Your blogs, YouTube content, and other marketing messages can be far better distributed and manageable. Reaching customers will also therefore be less of a challenge with a suitable multi-store ecommerce platform.
What’s more, these are only some of the very many advantages of sourcing a multi-store ecommerce platform from highly capable vendors such as Ydeveloper. The multi-store management software takes the drudgery out of your daily tasks and helps you manage your ecommerce stores in the exact ways you want to. With SEO advantages flowing automatically from such a setup, multi-store ecommerce is on its way to becoming the next big thing.

Multi Store Ecommerce: Some Apparent Benefits

Posted by Akshay Vyas February 13, 2013 0 comments
What comes to the mind when you think of benefits for the store owner who opts for multi store ecommerce? Also, why opt for multiple ecommerce stores, in the first place?

Each store is a site in itself, though all are unified at the backend. These are great for the links they generate for each other and collectively. Mere links are no longer important, but one can guess that good links at the right places do matter, if only for the advertising.


Beyond the apparent benefits of employing a single backend for multiple e-commerce stores, a store owner must also have a provider that is sensitive to all and any of the online multi shop requirements, in terms of design and development issues that might sometimes surface. Good after-sales service providers can ensure that your multistore ecommerce site is not only effectively set up but also continues running smoothly thereafter. Some service providers who develop and maintain your ecommerce multi store will also help out with the optimization.

Promoting all your stores is plenty of hard work. Service providers with offshore development center maintain staff to optimize your ecommerce stores. Store owners find it pretty convenient to shift a product to another store when it is no longer available in the former. This also keeps each storefront fresh, with an ever-present scope to keep it that way. A single-panel admin software makes this and such processes a cinch. The more online stores you maintain, the greater chance you stand for maintaining or enhancing your multiple stores names or  the names of your products on search engines. 
It is highly tempting to have all stores¹ pages look more or less similar. But don¹t forget to make space for differentiation. Begin the listing process with a tab on the images and content you use on the multiple stores. If possible, use exclusive content and images for each store, so as to have the added benefit of optimization. 

Your multi-store is your baby, your concept, and your future. Take good care of it.

Yahoo Store Web Development for Better Ecommerce Business

Posted by Akshay Vyas February 1, 2013 0 comments
Successful identification of just the most perfect Yahoo store development service provider is critically important. It is easy to get a hold on a developer your store can do without.

Benefits that accrue off a Yahoo Store are very popular with midsize and small businesses. Yahoo store is a powerful channel for ecommerce business, and Yahoo store development is the instrument that enables you to carve just such a channel.

A Yahoo store integrates tons of functionality and makes your ecommerce presence come alive. It even enables taking your business to the next levels in systematic and easy steps. Your Yahoo store is a perfect channel to make the most of the online opportunity for business. 

To realize the business targets you have set for yourself, it is important to devise innovative ways to achieve it. Providing value is more important than everything else, in the final analysis. In the case of a Yahoo store, development services can be used to ensure you have all the right tools to help you on your way to business success. 

Yahoo store web development provides all the functionality that a store owner may require to be able to take his business to the higher levels. Yahoo store design helps business owners reach a wider target audience through which a proactive relationship with the prospective and existing customers may be established. That, in turn, will suitably guide all business policies and processes.

Yahoo store design is considered a perfect gateway for a wide majority of virtual stores. Your store can achieve greater visibility and better sales with Yahoo store development. Customization provides the opportunity to build a store to your customers' liking. Such development also provides for the Yahoo store owner all the tools required to attract prospective customers. Several Yahoo Store developers offer a customized Yahoo Store development service to deliver the best results for all the businesses that rely on their Yahoo store for business development. 

If you are on the lookout for a Yahoo store developer, you need to first search for a reliable source through which you could hire the developers. Such a source can be a firm that offers Yahoo store development services and solutions. The web development professionals at such an organization are seasoned developers who are fully aware of the kind of features your Yahoo store will require. It pays to secure the services of such a professional setup since they have all the resources necessary to do full justice to your Yahoo store. Yahoo store developers with good experience and high credentials can identify the appropriate technical intricacies that need to be focused on. Such meticulous attention to your Yahoo store ensures smooth functioning of the website.

Successful identification of just the most perfect Yahoo store development service provider is critically important. It is easy to get a hold on a developer your store can do without. Look for a strong portfolio and do your own cross-checking before you settle for a Yahoo store development pro. 

When your Yahoo store is developed by just the right kind of a provider, it has every chance of making it big in the humongous world of ecommerce. It pays to invest time in researching for just the right kind of a Yahoo store development services provider.

5 Ecommerce Website Designing and Marketing Trends to Follow in 2013

Posted by Sandy Mates December 13, 2012 0 comments
It’s time to customize your ecommerce website. I visualize huge impact of 5 major ecommerce trends to Ecommerce website in 2013. Here they are:
Many times I have heard that the ecommerce will now shift to the Mcommerce (mobile, smartphones and tablets). It's true that the accessibility of internet in Mobile and Smartphones have increased so far and it's become easy to atleast evaluate the products directly from the shopping sites, but the customers are still feeling unsafe paying for the product, so stuff like these are expecting to be enhanced in 2013.
Mcommerce Solutions
It’s not an end of the Ecommerce; it’s a beginning of Advanced Ecommerce. Technologies used for developing ecommerce sites have already upgraded, e.g. a new version of WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, and so on. Thus ignoring the use of latest technology may help your competitors to bang you.

WordPress-CSS3-HTML5 - Advanced Technologies
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Snippet showing on the Google Search isn’t been just the snippet, it has turned out to be Rich. You can also implement snippet code authorized by Google, e.g. Microdata, Microformats, RDFa etc. to demonstrate the rating, reviews and other product details directly on the Search result page. With this, the site can get more Clicks through Rate (CTR).
Rich Snippets for Products
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Running a blog aligned with the site is still a great source of generating traffic. Adding an Authorship markup is an added advantage of getting authority from Google. So, start setting up an Authorship profile to show up this on Google search results page with a profile picture of real author.
Authorship for Blog
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The Next big thing is Google Tag Management System, equivalent to CMS. For a large ecommerce website, it’s quite difficult to manage the various tags used in website for tracking and other purposes, e.g. Adwords, Affiliates etc. This tool stores all the tags at one place, which can be customized anytime and helps pages load faster, which eventually benefit to a conversion rate and SEO performance.
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So far, I have briefly discussed about five big new ecommerce trends in 2013. Now, it’s your turn!

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