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Save time and efforts for setup & maintenance
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It is a rule of a thumb nowadays that cost of any software along with the license fee includes deployment and maintenance cost. The last two take the majority of overall system cost. Beginners in ecommerce usually miss it and lose money. So let us explain this in details for you to plan expenses better.
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There are 3 major types of small business ecommerce solutions in the net: free software, commercial subscription based and commercial license based. Free software is OSCommerce and variations, example of subscription based software is Yahoo stores and LiteCommerce is an example of commercially licensed software.
Free software looks good and good it is, however it is designed by a developer community, by developers for developers, which rise number of obstacles for an inexperienced user. You see, there is no tech support, just the community. Sometimes you get the answer and often you don't. Initially it's installation. Usually without special knowledge it's a hard task to perform. Then daily store maintenance often takes consulting from a professional web developer, which causes additional costs. Major advantage fresh people see in free software is huge number of free add-ons. They indeed are there, however each add-on is designed by an independent developer, hence no one thought of compatibility. So there's always a risk to end up making the add-ons you need work together. If you feel the need, have the time and money to spend on this, we suggest you try one of these and check for yourself. In our experience the most dealing with free systems either hire professional developers or go with another system eventually, often return to us. Yet we deal with small business owners mostly. The web designers making money on supporting 'free' stores will tell you the opposite.
Subscription based solution is the other extreme. It's very simple and takes no efforts from you to start the store or maintain it. However it costs monthly. Plus the most of subscription based solution providers either permit no changes in standard functionality or have you pay and pay well for every modification they make for you. Plus adware often included in these solutions, so idea is you pay for they or their customers advertise with your site. Not much to tell here, just take time to count what it costs and compare. These solutions are very popular because their users mostly do not know of other options.
Commercially licensed software. It involves license cost and no monthly fees. We do not offer hosted solutions currently. All you need on this matter is check if the hosting company meets system requirements or pick a company from compatible ones. We offer wide range of tools to simplify installation and store setup processes plus 30-day money back guarantee to ensure your satisfaction.
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We provide step by step installation instructions in the user manual. For windows users we offer installation wizard to handle the first part of the procedure. The second part of installation is handled by web based wizard. All you need is simply follow instructions. If anything goes not by the book the tech support is at hand to assist. Our technical support is in home and one of the best in the industry. Plus there are community forums for licensed users only with thousands actual business owners to help each other regarding the software, business practices, to share fresh ideas and just to talk.
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Once installed a store looks standard and does not have your products. Every business has own face, so we designed LiteCommerce for you to alter look & feel with no special web design knowledge.
If you have set of products you can convert it into CSV format with, for example, MS Excel and import into LiteCommerce. Saves much time for the most stores.
All the store functionality is described in the user manual, yet it's big and long to read. So, there's technical support to help your concerns and address any problems in professional and timely manner.
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Daily store maintenance like altering the product base or store settings or even design modifications takes no special knowledge. Anyone familiar with the web can handle this. Also we developed some tools for the maintenance was more comfortable and took less efforts.
Advanced Order Management. With this add-on you can do with orders nearly anything, alter any part of an order in any way. Comes handy when customers make mistakes during the purchase, change mind, etc. Also it's a way to setup LiteCommerce based Point Of Sale.
Auto Update Catalog. Useful for stores with large HTML catalogs. Keeps the catalog up to date and saves much time because updates not entire catalog but only the parts affected with the latest changes.
Inventory Tracking. It tracks stock quantities of all products in the store and notifies the admin of low stock limit reached.
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