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e-Commerce Resources

e-Commerce covers such a wide spectrum of information. In it's most basic form, e-Commerce simply means a monetary transaction taking place over the internet.

Depending on your product and online goals really makes a difference in your choice of how to present your product and collect the money from the sales.

We will be adding more to this section shortly.

Put simply, you need to identify how many products you wish to sell online and how expensive your products are. This will make the selection of e-Commerce solution more clear.

For only a few products then you probably don't need a full blown online shop and could easily get by with your products nicely presented with direct links to a 3rd party payment processor (i.e cashier) like Paypal or WorldPay.

For more than a few you should start looking a shopping cart system, like osCommerce or CubeCart or ZenCart. These solutions usually take a couple of days to a week to do the shop fitout.

Further information to follow shortly.