Why Ecommerce

What is Ecommerce?
“Ecommerce, or electronic commerce, refers to transactions conducted via the internet. Every time individuals and companies are buying or selling products and services online they’re engaging in ecommerce. The term ecommerce also encompasses other activities including online auctions, internet banking, payment gateways, and online ticketing.” Source

How Important is Ecommerce?
With e-retail sales accounting for 14.1% of all retail sales worldwide, ecommerce continues to grow at a speedy rate despite global economic uncertainty. What’s more, Statista forecasts that these figures will keep growing and reach 22% in 2023. Source

Why WooCommerce

What is WooCommerce?
“WooCommerce is a flexible, open-source ecommerce solution built on WordPress. Whether you’re launching a business, taking an existing brick and mortar store online, or designing sites for clients you can get started quickly and build exactly the store you want.” Source

Extensions and additional ecommerce functions are also available, if needed, from third parties. WooCommerce is designed to serve the needs of a small store up to a complex on-line store with a variety of products, international sales, tax calculations and shipping rate calculations for all of the major international shipping companies.

WordPress Is Widely Used
“WooCommerce is a free plugin that transforms WordPress websites into customizable eCommerce stores. With more than 48 million downloads, WooCommerce powers over 28% of all eCommerce sites.” Source

Why Paldom Systems?

Paldom Systems provides support for installation, configuration and operation of your ecommerce website. With the possibility of continued restrictions on retail locations because of the pandemic, every retailer should consider building a permanent ecommerce solution. This may be incorporated into your existing website, or it may be built as a stand-alone website.

We use the WooCommerce plugin and a variety of add-on feature plugins in conjunction with WordPress websites. We address the variety of sales taxes as they vary by state and the processes required to update pricing, shop catalog, inventory management, shipping charges and order fulfillment. WooCommerce provides the required major capabilities, features and benefits.

We will also promote your ecommerce shop when appropriate on social media and by word of mouth.

WooCommerce Features

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• Countless themes: Pick the theme that works for you. WooCommerce is designed to work seamlessly with themes you know and love, including each year’s default WordPress themes and many popular themes from around the web.
• Unrestricted customization: Edit any part of your site – from the homepage layout to the buy button – to stand out from the crowd.
• Built-in blogging: Publish great content and build a strong brand. Use WooCommerce to integrate ecommerce with the world’s most popular content publishing platform.
• Embed products, checkout and more on any page: Use shortcodes to add your products to blog posts, or create landing pages that go straight to checkout.
• Categories, tags and attributes make products easier to find: Help customers find what they want by adding tags to describe a product. Add attributes like size and color so customers can search for items most relevant to them.
• Product ratings and reviews: Show customer feedback directly on the product page, including a ‘Verified Owner’ label.
• Customize for your location: Set the currency, language and measurement units (inches, centimeters or anything else) that’s right for you.
• Product sorting and filtering: Let customers sort products by popularity, newness, rating, price or attribute to find the right fit.

WooCommerce Benefits

Primary WooCommerce Benefits (Summarized from the WooCommerce References shown next)

• Integration with WordPress Websites
• Free for a basic system
• Very affordable and flexible.
• Payment Gateway
• Room for Growth — start small and grow
• Modular design supports customization and extensions
• Can be used to sell anything
• Familiar Friendliness–Speaking of WordPress, the hugely popular CMS supports over 51% of the top million websites currently in existence, Reference
• Vibrant Developer Community
• Easily Customization with a Large Selection of Themes
• You have complete control over your store
• Security
• SEO-Search engine friendly
• Built in Blogging
• Large number of additional plugins and extensions
• Informative analytics
• Simplifies your work process
• Easy promotion of your shop throughout your website.