Sell While You Sleep—With an Online Store

Ready to sell your products and services from your website?

You can get orders from your online store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. E-commerce is the best way to get sales even while you sleep.

Now it’s easy to have an online store installed on your website, using PayPal, a worldwide secure online payment processor. Getting a PayPal cart is free, and their fees are approximately 35 cents + 2.9% per transaction. See PayPal.com for more info. You will need a free PayPal Business Account in order to build your web store.

2 Ways to Add an Online Store

You have 2 options for adding your custom online store front to your site:

1. You can have PayPal shopping cart buttons added to your current website.

If you are only selling a small number of items (less than 10) and the options on these items (like sizes, styles and colors) don’t change often, this could be your best option. The downside is that it’s not easy for you to change your online store yourself, because a regular website won’t have a control panel where you can edit it on your own.

2. You can add a PayPal shopping cart to your blog site if you are using WordPress and have as many items as you like AND update it yourself.

If you don’t have a blog, you can easily have one added to your site. If a WordPress blog is added on, it can match your current website design, but it won’t look exactly the same.

Why Get a WordPress Online Store

Adding the PayPal shopping cart code to your regular website will work, but it doesn’t allow you to take advantage of the full range of options you could get with a complete e-commerce solution.

Rates for adding the WordPress shopping cart are comparable to regular sites if you already have a WP blog set up.  And setting up a blog is just a bit more.

Here are just some of the options you get with the WordPress version of your online store:

MARKET YOUR PRODUCTS

Offer coupons and discounts
Put items on sale
Give quantity discounts
Offer free shipping
Feature new products
Cross-sell items to buyers
Let customers share items on social networking sites like Facebook

SET UP SHIPPING RATES

Set up shipping with different carriers
Calculate shipping rates
Offer several shipping options

MANAGE PAYMENTS

Create customer accounts
Have express checkout options
Accept payments securely
Calculate tax and shipping

FULFILL AND TRACK ORDERS

View your sales reports
See order history
Email order notifications
Print invoices and packing slips

ADD PRODUCTS TO YOUR ONLINE STORE

Enter products easily
Edit items right in your store console
Create product categories
Offer downloadable, digital products
Take donations
Size images automatically
Control inventory

GET GREAT EXTRAS

Include product search
Allow customers to comment on items
Put shopping cart anywhere on your site
Customize the look to fit your design

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Ready to Open Your Online Store?

You don’t have to spend a ton of money to sell from your website. Let me install an easy-to-use shopping cart for your site.

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