eCommerce

eCommerce web sites offer a proven information and sales channel for your business. 24 hours, 7 days a week customer access, lower costs delivering higher margins, instant product and stock updates, and cost effective promotional options are just a few of the advantages.

Agile IT Group will take you step by step through each step of eCommerce development from online marketing strategies to secure order processing.

eCommerce software solutions

eCommerce solutions come in variety of functionality, technologies and languages. Each eCommerce system has advantages and disadvantages, from 'Off-the-shelf-solutions' to custom developed solutions, each offers different e-Commerce options.

'Off-the-shelf' eCommerce solution

The main advantages of off-the-shelf solutions are obvious, the main being the cost, they are cheap to purchase and easy to install by competent web design companies, they have generalized options to deal with products and present the products to the browser in a standard way.

These eCommerce solutions are developed to suit the widest audience, as such they can be difficult to customize and administer as well as haveing very limited browser display capabilities due to the system displays being templates and sometimes uncustomizable.

Custom eCommerce solution

The Custom eCommerce solution has many advantages over the 'off the shelf' e-Commerce solutions, this is where the system is developed specifically for the client.

Managment of these systems is very simple as the features and the usage terminology of the administrator areas may be designed for the clients' customer management style, and product type.

Region	1999	2004
World	145 billion	7.29 trillion
US	63% of above	39% of above
Europe	31.8 billion	2.34 trillion
Asia-Pacific	9.2 billion	992 billion
Japan	11.1 billion	861 billion
Latin America	1 billion	124 billion

Statistics courtesy of Metricsmarket