How a Shop
WebSite Works

Order/Enquiry
Form

How a Shop WebSite Works

A shop WebSite can make buying over the Internet easy. Shop Sites usually have comprehensive information about products - pictures, prices, and descriptions.

A big benefit is you are able to give more details than normal shops do. For example Amazon.com, an Internet bookshop, has book reviews, interviews with authors, and lists of similar books.

Virtual Shopping Basket

A virtual shopping basket is the easiest shopping system that your customer can use. All they need to do is click on items and the site remembers them. When they are finished, it turns the contents of their 'basket' into an order; then they just enter there address and credit or debit card number.

A shop site should then e-mail the customer to confirm your order; this can be set-up automatically.

Password

Shop sites & companies can store the customer's address and card details on a secure part of the site. Entering the customer's password brings them up and saves you from retyping them each time they shop at your site.

There are some less refined sites can be much harder work for the customer. They may find, for instance, that they need to write down product names and prices as you go along so that you can fill in an order form when they have finished shopping.