Basic eCommerce Websites

Fibonacci Designs creates basic eCommerce websites integrating static bespoke websites with Payment Service Providers (PSPs) such as PayPal.

In order to create a simple website that allows payment there are many PSPs to chose from, PayPal being widely considered as a leading 'ease-of-use' option. While it is relatively easy to set up and create a website using PayPal's Shopping Basket or Buy Now buttons it does give little flexibility to you as the owner of an online shop.

Advantages & Disadvantages of using a basic eCommerce facility

Below are some advantages and disadvantages of using PayPal’s eCommerce shopping facilities:-

• + Familiarity for the end user - many users of the internet have a PayPal account and are used to paying for goods through the PayPal Shopping Basket;
• + Confirmed security - PayPal is so well known in the industry that users generally wouldn’t have any concerns about security when paying through PayPal;
• + Cost effective development - developing a website using PayPal is a fairly simple process and as such the costs involved of setting it up are kept to a minimum.
• - Difficult to update - It would be necessary for the owner of a PayPal shop to contact their web developer to make any changes to the site’s shop pages as, by and large, there is a requirement to have decent knowledge of HTML in order to update PayPal shop pages. If there are frequent changes to be made this can become quite costly.
• - Limited flexibility of delivery prices - If you have a number of products that you will need to charge different delivery prices to different locations then PayPal eCommerce can be a little simplistic.

If you have a limited budget and a small number of products that are unlikely to change very often then using the PayPal shopping basket may be the right eCommerce solution for you. All you need to do is simply choose the products, the images, the descriptions and the relevant prices of your products and aside from some administrative details Fibonacci Designs will create your basic online shop.

Please contact us to see how we can make eCommerce make money for you.