This is a new service we have started for 2012, for all CMS and ecommerce websites over £500 we are offering pay monthly payment options, you have to pay a £199 deposit/setup fee, then a fee each month for 11 further months after which the website is fully yours.

A website can be an expensive for small businesses, but we feel it’s important that you get your business online and this is why we have started offering this payment option.

We feel this also lets us build a great relationship with our clients, so you know we are here for website edits after we have built your website, we do not want to just be your website provider, we want to build a great long term relationship.

What is eCommerce?

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Electronic commerce draws on such technologies as electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well.

Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of business transactions.

E-commerce can be divided into:

• E-tailing or "virtual storefronts" on Web sites with online catalogs, sometimes gathered into a "virtual mall"
• The gathering and use of demographic data through Web contacts
• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), the business-to-business exchange of data
• E-mail and fax and their use as media for reaching prospects and established customers (for example, with newsletters)
• Business-to-business buying and selling
• The security of business transactions

What are the common eCommerce Solutions?

eCommerce Website Solutions come in many shapes and sizes. Most eCommerce websites have similar features and use the very familar add to cart, register and pay for goods method of functionality. There is a wide range of eCommerce Solutions that Spicer Designs has had experience with developing sites on. These include WordPress with Shopping Cart plugins, eShop, Zen Cart, Os Commerce, Magento, Drupul with eCommerce Plug-ins (Ubercart and Drupul eCommerce), eCommercer for Joomla, Shopify and other drop in plugins  sites such as CafePress, Lulu, CreateSpace and DeviantArt.

Spicer Designs prefer to use our custom in house eCommerce solution. The reason we prefer to stay in house (although we wll work with any of the above on request) is mainly due to security issues that can arrise from open sourse website coding.