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Is There Any Good And Reliable E-Commerce Software? Yes it is!

The short answer is: yes it is. The long answer…well there are many good e-commerce software solutions that can help you start your business but unfortunately many of them are pretty hard to use. Sure, we need to be graceful that the days where you had to be an expert in web development or very rich in order to create a shopping website, are no more. Many of today’s e-commerce website builders are offering everything from the shopping engine and all the way to hosting your website and some of them are so advanced that you don’t have to add even a single line of code.

Recently a friend of mine decided to start an online shopping business but he wants to make the site for himself. My first thought was that making something by yourself will not only help you become a better developer or whatever you decided to make, but it also means that you know exactly how it works in case you want to change something. Well…unfortunately my friend knows web development just like my cat, so creating an e-commerce website was more than a dream.

He’s not the only one who wants an online shopping website so it is obvious that the best solution is to choose and stick with an e-commerce website builder. After some research, I found a very good solution that contains every feature that you will ever need: izzonet.com. I was impressed by how easy is to create an online store so I decided to show you a quick guide in case you need it. From now on, selling online will be like a breeze.

The first thing that I noticed and also liked is that you can quickly make an account from the homepage. That’s great because I hate spending time with all that useless pages, presentations and promises that you see on other websites. Here you’ll see a quick introduction, some key features and the form for creating a trial account.

After creating the account I received a confirmation email with everything I needed. There’s only one thing that I didn’t like it at first but that’s because I’m extremely critical when it comes to user experience: the confirmation email’s name is not Izzonet but the name of a person. But I soon realized that I overreacted because the email came from my personal consigliere that will help me with my website. I just felt like a mafia boss because I now I have my very own e-commerce expert that will assist me with the strategy, design, marketing and everything else. How cool is this, heh?

The control panel is extremely intuitive and well made, so you won’t waste your time scratching your head and trying to figure out how it’s working.

Making your website is pretty dumb-proof because everything is straight-forward and very clear:

1. Decide how your website will look by choosing from 100 themes.

2. Add your logo or use their logo generator(which I can’t say that I like but that’s a matter of personal taste).

3. Arrange all the contents using the drag and drop feature, which is pretty neat.

4, Add widgets that will enhance your website and that will improve the user interaction.

Now your website is almost ready. All you need to do now is to populate it with your products, which is extremely easy to make thanks to the control panel.

Besides adding your products, you have a huge number of features such as customer management interface, ebay integration, coupons, barcode creator, catalog builder and a lot more cool stuff that will help you boost your business.

Bogdan

Bogdan is the founder of Top Design Magazine. You can find him in Bucharest-Romania so next time you want to drink a beer there and talk about web and stuff, give him a message.