1. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. Ecommerce Building an E-commerce website: E-commerce websites can be challenging, there are only two e-commerce systems in the industry that are worth taking a look at for small to medium business, Shopify & Woocommerce. Shopify is its own system, allowing people to pay for a e-commerce website and manage it themselves, a popular option for smaller stores. Woocommerce is an engine for building woocommerce websites, I use it as a framework when building websites, many of the stores I have built have been very successful on that framework. A couple of my clients had their sites and products featured on dragons den and have driven sales amounting to $20,000 /monthly with no issue. Online Store Planning In my experience, there are a couple of points to be aware of when building online stores, first it's to learn that E-commerce stores all really have a similar design and framework and the closer we stay to that the more successful it will be (clients coming to the site will already know how to use it). E-commerce sites from a design perspective are simple; product categories on the left, products on the right. I have attached a screenshots below; Product Entry Here is an example of understanding product entry and how e-commerce sites can manage product and inventory. Example: A simple method of inputting products would be adding 9 products for small, medium, large t-shirts, that come in three different colours, blue, red, white. Example 2: An advanced educated method of inputting products would be 1 product with 2 attributes and resulting in 9 variations size colour small blue t-shirt small red t-shirt small white t-shirt Medium blue t-shirt