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Quick Start Guide to Opening
 Your Online Store

Use This Guide to Find the Software that Suits Your Requirements
Then Build Your Ecommerce Web Site Today

There are a number of things you need to consider when choosing the right ecommerce solution for your business, so answer the following few questions before you read any of the reviews.  This will save you time eliminating some of the products that may be unsuitable.

1.  How many products will you be selling in you online store?  Normally the more products you have the higher the monthly charges so why pay for something you are not going to use.  But do leave room for expansion.

2.  How much do you want to spend?  You want to keep your monthly charges as low as possible but you want to make sure you get all the features you need. 

3. Do you already have a merchant account?  If you do, what payment gateway do you use?  If you don't have your own merchant account you can still use any of the solutions below.

4.  You can eliminate monthly charges if you buy a software package.  You do not need to know any html to run the program but you will need to buy a web hosting package and install the software yourself.  You can always paid someone to install the package for you which will probably cost as much as the software itself but it will work out cheaper in the long term than a monthly subscription

Test Drive
To save you a lot of time I have taken the online store builders below for a test drive to find out how well they actually work. Once you have decided which store builder may be suitable for you, click on the review button to read my full evaluation and comments. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

One-Off Payment Solutions

Software

Maximum Products Price Payment Gateway Test Drive Reviews

Rating

Lite Commerce Unlimited $95.00 Choice of 27 Coming Soon
ViArt Shopping Cart
Free
Lite
Standard
Enterprise

50
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited

Free
$139
$199
$299
Choice of 25 Coming Soon
Monthly Subscription Solutions

Software

Maximum Products Cost per Month Payment Gateway Test Drive Reviews

Rating

Instant eStore Unlimited $49.97 Choice of 27
ashopcommerce.com
Lite
Ashop 500
Ashop 2000
Ashop Plus

50
500
2,000
Unlimited

$39.95
$69.95
$99.95
$189.95
Choice of 22
EasyStoreCreator Unlimited $67 Choice of 24
Homestead
Enhanced
Professional
Enterprise

Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited

$24.99
$59.99
$229.99
Choice of 14
WebSiteWizard Unlimited $46.99 MultiCards
AtomicShops 500 $35.95
$19.95
Authorize.net
or PayPal
Curz Web Design 1,000 $79.95 LinkPoint
or PayPal
X2cms
Store Builder
28,000 $22.90 PayPal Coming Soon
1&1 eShops
Business
Professional
Developer
 
50
200
Unlimited
 
$9.99
$29.99
$49.99
WorldPay
or PayPal
90 day
mbg*
Coming Soon  
Easy Catalog Unlimited $29 NoChex, WorldPay
or PayPal
Coming Soon
UK Subscription Solutions

Software

Maximum Products Cost per Month Payment Gateway Test Drive Reviews

Rating

ashopcommerce.co.uk
Lite
Ashop 500
Ashop 2000
Ashop Plus

 50
500
2,000
Unlimited

£19.95
£39.95
£59.95
£99.95
Choice of 22
Moonfruit
SiteMaker
SiteMaker Plus
SiteMaker Max

Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited

£5.99
£8.99
£12.79
PayPal
EKM Power Shop Unlimited £19.99 Choice of 11 Coming Soon
ShopMaker.co.uk Unlimited £30
£45 for
3 months
Choice of 11 Coming Soon

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