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FAQ of Independent Online Shop 

Where is the good place for registering domain name? What issues should be paid attention to?

The place is not as important as the reputation of the service provider. The provider should think highly of service quality and be very professional. Those points below should be taken account of:

1. Clearly know who the owner of the domain name is. This is the first step of the security certification. You must ensure the owner is the shop keeper.
2. Service providers must ensure that you are free to transfer your domain name.
3. Domain management background should be independent and its interface should be easy to use.
4.  Renewals reminded timely 
5. Convenient to renewals; It’d be better support on-line payment. 
6. The service should be good. At least it should have an online quiz system.

 

What issues should be noticed in hosting?

Online Shop hosting means finding a server for storing data and supporting data running for the online shop. It sounds simple, but there are many problems.

1. Firstly make sure the system you are using is based on whether ASP or PHP.  Those two systems operating environment are different. Before purchasing, you should think it over. Otherwise you’ll waste your time and resources.

2. Territorial issues

If your online shop's customers are the foreigners who buy your stuff from overseas, your probably should put your hosting overseas.

SuperCart also provides the U.S. servers, since the overseas clients can visit the sites more quickly. For example, if most of your business is foreign trade, you should choose U.S. server. However, if your customers are Chinese, you should choose a local host which is nearest to your clients.

3. Compatibility issues

It is easy to find a hosting place for a perfect online store system. But not all the hosting system can be adjusted to adapt online shop system. So you must send a list of system requirement  to providers before selecting. Then make decision after confirmation.

4. Hosting provider is able to provide a powerful admin interface. 

5. Easy to backup  

 

Which system can be chosen?

As free open source online shop has been developed  well, the open source codes appear in almost every area.  But "for free" is not everything. You should select different sever providers based on your practice requirements, technology, design level and management ability.

Choosing the system, fundamentally speaking, is choosing the service mode. Because the online shop building is not an overnight thing but something like the physical one requiring continually improving to meet the latest challenge and seize new opportunities.

SuperCart currently supports two online store system : X-cart and ZenCart.  They are the most popular systems in the world with excellent openness and ease to use. You can watch the specific parameters list and try it on our site for free.

 

What resources are required for opening an Independent Online Shop?

Nowadays,  it does not require the owner of high software technology but skillfully using computer to get online.

However, if you want to run your online shop well, like a physical one, you need the knowledge of stocking, sales and inventory, you need famous brands, and you also need high quality and good services.

 

How to ensure my  template is what I want? 

Experts said, whether a customer purchase or not is more than 20% depending on the customer’s experience. Besides the customer experience of text, price and professional factors, whether the templates are attractive, whether the match is fit, whether the shopping process is concise and clear are very important.  Relative to some domestic online store system, x-cart template can be the clearest, the most concise and structured one among those structured templates.

The problem customers often overlook, is that the pretty and dazzle template can't be used.  We must plan and create the template according to customer’s industry, product , cooperate imagine and the template’s features.

 

Summarize the main points of the templates design: 

1. Clues are clear, fast and easy to use. 
2. Be consistent with corporate image and products’ style. 
3. A good template should be a externalization of good business model. 
4. Template design planning is more important than creativity. 

 

How to solve the payment problem? 

The forms of payment can be various. You are no longer limited by the conditions of Taobao or Ebay. You can easily integrate paypal, KuaiQian, google checkout and other online bank payment gateway. Customers can choose to pay the bill through enterprise bank, personal bank, debit card, credit card, cell phone and so on. Meanwhile, you can allow your customers place orders through these offline methods such as by telephone and transferring accounts.

 

What if people don't know whether the shop is built?

The promotion of the independent online shop is a big problem. Although independent shop broke away from those C2C store-style markets like Taobao, another headache emerges. It is when the shop is built, customers do not know. How to deal with this problem?

SuperCart’s opinion is that you should think over the promotion of your store at the beginning of the establishment. Naturally this is a question about marketing.

SuperCart provides the complete solution of promotion. The specialized channels and methods include content development, copywriting, SEO, external links, blog marketing, email marketing, information marketing, Google and Baidu awards and so on.

We also provide profound solutions. Please consult our customer service representatives.