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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Ecommerce Resources?
I know the owner of a company who is looking to do an ecommerce site that will sell both products that the company manufactures and products from other companies that he wants to drop ship. He wants some assistance from me - I have a marketing background so I can put together a site with a web designer/developer but I do not have much ecommerce experience in terms of payment options, inventory control, drop shipping (like how much he should upsell), determining shipping options, etc. Can anyone recommend a resource for me to read up about this so I can determine whether or not I can help him...
Re: Ecommerce Resources?
Here are some companies that offer eCommerce products/services along the lines of what you are looking for:
www.coresense.com
www.earlyimpact.com
www.interapptive.com
www.zoovy.com
www.shipcompliant.com
I would definitely recommending getting some professional help on this. Setting up an e-commerce site isn't as easy as 1-2-3, which you probably already know.
There are things that need to be thought out ahead of time like how many categories are needed, how many products will you be selling, what type of attributes does each product have.
Essentially there is a difference between setting up an eCommerce site that sells 50 different tools vs. one that sells 10 t-shirts (that come in four sizes & 5 different colors), 10 hammers (that come in 2 sizes & 2 types of handles), and 30 accessories that come in one flavor.
What you can do is put a ad on Craiglist to get a resource that will cost less, and look for someone who specializes in "open-source" eCommerce software. "Open source" means there is not cost for the software, it's free. There are a couple of software packages that are extremely robust.
You should be paying for someone's time, not for the actual software (IMHO). If you do put an ad for this, ask for reference websites and contacts to verify the person actually has implemented the ecommerce sites.