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What are the aspects which increase the development cost of an e-commerce website?

by Christian Silmaro Christian

Today, e-commerce is the best platform for growing any business as here the whole world becomes the target-customers. In fact, there are many businesses which don’t have any particular infrastructure or physical existence. In fact, a survey report says that approximately 23% of the global business is covered by those companies. They are just on papers but having no proper office for functioning. The way of work in this e-commerce business is extremely easy. You just need to endorse your product in display and the buyers sitting at any corner of this world can buy them. 

In fact, the cost of development of such a business is negligible in comparison to the other regular one. All that you need is an effective website which can attract your potential customers. But during the time of building this website, following are the essential factors which should be taken into consideration:

·         Development cost

·         Maintenance charges

·         Complexity of the design

 Out of these three, the most important factor is the ecommerce website development cost.

Like every businessman, the owner of this business also wants a cost effective development. Unnecessary cost is a waste and it is not at all welcome by anyone.

 Below mentioned are the few aspects which are needed to be considered to reduce this development cost.

·         This cost of development depends on the level of complexity and upgraded technological solutions implemented on your site. It is a fact that when you start your e-commerce business, you try to sell everything possible from your site. But it is the developer who needs to synchronize all the items in a proper manner. If this is not done correctly, then this simply increase the number of pages and unnecessary cost.

·         Every e-commerce business requires a merchant account to receive credit/debit card payments. Now tying with a bank for a normal merchant account is an expensive proposition as they charge on every transaction. So instead of having a standard merchant account, these businesses should always opt for e-commerce merchant account.

·         Another important cost is the hosting charge and this cost varies on the different types of hosting. So you can always ask your developer to host your website in the most economical way.

·         Template- based e-commerce site is always a better option as it cost less and it is more effective than any other regular forms of the website. So you can always go for it and save your money.

Every business owner wants to minimizing cost and maximizing profit and the owner of E-commerce business is not an exception.


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