Custom Ecommerce Blog by Ydeveloper

So far we have discussed several topics on E-commerce. Like, infographics screening history of electronic commerce, reviewed e-commerce storefronts, best practices on ecommerce – I and II, shopping cart as a heart of ecommerce, etc. Ecommerce has become a universal platform for small business today. In  anticipation of the introduction and growing use of smartphones, retailers have no other alternative for an ecommerce than this. But, thanks to Apple and other smartphones providers for providing new resources (MCommerce) to the retailers for marketing and selling their products and ideas through mobiles.

Let’s take an example of [hiding store name for privacy] – selling hair, cosmetics and beauty products online.

Total Visits from Mobile:

Source: Google Analytics

Have you seen above screenshot?

There are 298,135 visits acquired by different Mobile devices, which is almost 24% of total traffic acquired. Let’s compare other metrics, pages/visit, avg. visit duration, % new visits and bounce rate. Except bounce rate, the other metrics are almost same. It means that above engagement and consumers’ behavior confirms that people like to search, review and purchase products directly from their mobile. It is simple facts that countries have more Smartphone users have more insight and engagement in MCommerce and provide more scope of mobile application development for presenting their ideas through exciting mobile phone applications and utilities for better shopping experience. Here is a nice tool by Google to test your website that how it looks on a Smartphone. If you do not have enough budgets, you can use Google’s services to build a mobile site for free.

Let’s distribute above visits between Top 10 Mobile Devices as seen below:

Visits by Mobile Devices:

 Source: Google Analytics

Have you noticed bounce rates on above screenshots?

So, what else can be concluded from above facts and figures?

You can navigate to sixth Para for Open Source Ecommerce; only if you are familiar with Ecommerce else you can continue with reading. Options are large enough to design and develop an Ecommerce Website. Since the evolution of an ecommerce, it has been mounting worldwide. In the beginning the platforms were very poor and it can not able to hold up to large products. It was look like a typical website. Ever-increasing its capability to handle large no. of products has opened numerous opportunities for small businesses across the globe. Countries like USA and UK lead top ecommerce businesses on the whole. It’s not only the reason that People from these countries prefer online shopping; it’s also about their contribution into the growth of e-Commerce.

Website is the medium to go your business online. E-commerce is a sort of website that typically known as an online store or online shop or outlet. Generally retailers have no plan what platform has vital to build an ecommerce website; thus they have to consult a professional ecommerce website developer. An Ecommerce Consultant can give an advice to which platform go well with their business products to be sold on.

Depending on the products, you can decide an option to develop an e-commerce store for your business to bring into being.

We figured out the three ways and each has its own significance, features and benefits:

We are here to talk in more about Open Source Ecommerce Solutions. Click on Storefronts and Programming Languages for Ecommerce Development, to get an idea of what features and benefits they offer to you as well as to the customers. 

Ok, Ydeveloper has recently added a new page in Ydeveloper.com – it’s about Open Source Customization. If you do not know what it means, then it says free resources to design and develop an e-commerce outlet. Not to worry if you are not familiar with how a store can be managed. How shopping cart works, how inventory can be handled? These are all areas you can customize according to your requirement.

There are two benefits of using an open source platforms, first it saves time and money and next it is more cost effective.

Other benefits are as follows:

When you search for list of best open source e-commerce platforms, you get confused. After a small research, you can’t come up with a solution that you can use for your business.

Find which platform best fits for each requirement as follows: