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Introduction
Technology has provided some of very mind-blowing alternatives to the otherwise arduous and nerve-wrecking difficult jobs. It is easing our lifestyle in every thinkable and unthinkable possible ways. E-Commerce is one such alternative.
E-Commerce
The activity buying and selling of products and services has been the basis of our society since ever. E-Commerce is the revolutionary aid provided by electricity to implement commerce over the web. The history of e-commerce dates back to the 70s of the USA. Later with the advancement of technology, especially semiconductor electronics industries, it not only became epidemically popular but also it has skyrocketed enterprises’ total revenue. In some European countries it accounts for almost a quarter of the country’s total turnover. In china, the commercial giant, the e-commerce expands extensively every year. Alibaba, a single company, holds four parts out of five of the total market share. The reason is quite simple and predictable. It has gifted greater reachability to the market retailers, wholesalers and supply companies. It has bridged the distances and comforted the customers with home delivery.
WordPress
WordPress is basically a blogging platform but with the addition of a plug-in called WooCoomerce it becomes a business platform primarily e-commerce
WooCommerce Hosting
WooCommerce Hosting is a simple, powerful, and extendible e-commerce platform for WordPress. It basically provides you the liberty to control and customise your products as well as shop in digital world.
Pros
For example you setup a production of hoodies sponsored by your college or company. Now you want to reach as many people as possible, e-commerce is the key. WooCommerce lets you advertise your hoodies in different colours and sizes to make it appealing to the audience. It assists the payment by providing several modes of transaction (cash, online transaction, debit card, online portals etc.). With the addition of extensions and more plug-ins you can modify shipping rules and even offer package delivery overseas. It can provide final bill by calculating shipping charges and other taxes for the customers too. It also lets you track the product and warns beforehand when it’s time to restock. It makes reports which give you insights into your business. The bigger pros are it is open source, free, runs in Unix-like and windows OS. With WordPress hosting it also has become friendlier with mobile apps for both android and IOS.
Cons
WooCommerce is absolutely free but there still are some indirect expenses required. You need a hosting account to store all the files related to your business including all the confidential files of customers who log-into your website. Unfortunately hosting is not free of charges. Apart from hosting, you also need to buy an SSL certificate for your website which ensures your website is secured ( “https://” mark before the domain name). The essence of this certificate is paramount as your website stores passwords and other banking details while transaction. You also need to pay some minimal fees for the transaction interface. You surely want your website to attract more customers for which you need cool theme for your site. Though WooCommerce provides some free themes yet for effective advertisement you ought to buy paid themes. Sometimes the plug-ins and the themes don’t go well with each other as they are not integrated. It needs troubleshooting experience.
Conclusion
The choice of digitalization of business solely rests on the person. In case of a blogger willing to support his finance by business in a small scale, WooCommerce provides an excellent boost for it as it requires very negligible investment with high potential output.
