Ecommerce Site

RangeR

The likes of well known self hosted products are constantly being attacked. Need constant updating. Need constant attention.

To someone who isn't technical or doesn't care to take the time to get all of this sorted regularly, hosted products are a total win. Let someone else deal with the pain of maintaining security and upgrades.

I have one Wordpress site. It's a pain to keep up to date. I pay someone else to keep it updated and secure. I just don't have the time. I'll be moving this to a bespoke system soon. We only use about 2% of Wordpress features.

Graham

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Let's be honest here watching some YouTube videos, buying a theme, installing woocommerce is not the hardest thing in the world to do. It ain't coding.

Hosting
Domain Names
DNS
FTP
Backups
Themes
Plugins
Ongoing support/maintenance
Security

None of the above is particularly onerous for anyone that knows what they're doing. For anyone unfamiliar, why would they put themselves through the pain to 'save' a tenner a week.

B.A._Baracus

Graham wrote: »

Hosting
Domain Names
DNS
FTP
Backups
Themes
Plugins
Ongoing support/maintenance
Security

None of the above is particularly onerous for anyone that knows what they're doing. For anyone unfamiliar, why would they put themselves through the pain to 'save' a tenner a week.

You gave me your usual WordPress sales speech didn't you lol.

syntheticjunk

leadersway wrote: »

A single product with three different flavours only. So far I've been quoted 1500 plus vat for it.

Shopify.
There is a chance that for 1500 plus vat you'll get the same solution that people offering as cheaper alternative to Shopify.

leadersway

Thanks for this.
At the moment I've moved away from the 1500 plus vat quote. I've been playing around on shopify but I am looking out for someone to help me set up on it. I am working on the content for the site presently. I'll put this into a folder and get the help I need to get me started. Ideally I am trying to get someone local to sit down with me and start me off. I've been on a site guru.com and have heard from lots of people who will set me up for between 50 and 200 usd . If I was to go with someone like this what are people's views. Ie I presume I send them my content and they set up the shopify site before handing it back to me new out of the box. Is that how this works? Thanks again.

syntheticjunk wrote: »

Shopify.
There is a chance that for 1500 plus vat you'll get the same solution that people offering as cheaper alternative to Shopify.

syntheticjunk

If you'll go that way - don't forget to change password when work completed.
But I'm not sure that you need to spend 50-200 on shopify setup. They offering free trial - check it over a weekend. It's not that complicated after all.

leadersway

leadersway wrote: »

Thanks for this.
At the moment I've moved away from the 1500 plus vat quote. I've been playing around on shopify but I am looking out for someone to help me set up on it. I am working on the content for the site presently. I'll put this into a folder and get the help I need to get me started. Ideally I am trying to get someone local to sit down with me and start me off. I've been on a site guru.com and have heard from lots of people who will set me up for between 50 and 200 usd . If I was to go with someone like this what are people's views. Ie I presume I send them my content and they set up the shopify site before handing it back to me new out of the box. Is that how this works? Thanks again.

I doubt you'll be pleased with the results. Do some back-of-a-beermat calculations on how many hours this budget will buy you. Even if you're lucky and get a talented kid working for a low wage in a less developed country (a big if), you won't get a lot of hours. If you're paying a pro from a western country, you'll get very little time indeed - nowhere near enough to get the shop set up properly.

IMO, you would be better off setting up what you can yourself, learn the platform. Then pay for very specific help on defined tangible issues that you can't solve yourself.

leadersway

Hi all. Managed to launch my shopify site yesterday. Total cost = hard work and graft. Thanks to everyone for their advice. Moving forward am going to spend my budget on marketing and learning all about it. Thanks again. Shopify converted!