Getting Started

When starting an online store, one decision you have to make in the very beginning is whether to go with a hosted e-commerce platform (or SaaS platform) or go with self hosting (open-source). Jumpseller is an SaaS solution (hosted e-commerce solution) and in this article we talk about the advantages jumpseller has over open source solutions like Magento, WooCommerce and Prestashop.

There are usually many metrics that show the current state of the business, monthly sales, unique visitors, etc., but unfortunately very few of them give us a broader picture of the health of the business. Very few give us a long-term vision of what we are doing.

The design of your online store can be more important than the information you put on it. Because when people visit your store, they decide in the first few seconds if the want to stay or leave. Hence, it is critical to have a design that is both beautiful and efficient, gaining the attention of the visitors and making them keep coming back for more.

Many want to build the next Amazon in a day. They try to sell a wide variety of products online in different categories for different types of customers, each one of them with specific requirements and shopping habits. Even though this might work in a few isolated cases, it is almost impossible to achieve in most.

In E-commerce today there is a vast number of shopping carts to choose from. And most of them do share similarities in principle, however, there are still key differences that are sometimes overlooked! Learn how is Jumpseller is different from Shopify.

One of the most important reasons for this failure is that people starting a business don’t have the needed mentality to overcome the day-to-day obstacles. There’s a cloud of uncertainty not everyone can deal with. We don’t know if what we’re doing is good, bad or even worse, we can’t identify what’s actually working and what’s not.

Many have a list of goals to achieve each year. I’m sure many of you have had 'starting a digital business or online store' on this list at some point in your lives. Most of the time this desire never leaves the list, it never becomes a reality, many times for justified reasons.

Many people who are not too familiar with the term dropshipping still ask questions like How does Dropshipping work?and How to start a dropshipping business? In simple terms, Dropshipping means selling without keeping a stock. How? Well, In dropshipping when a store sells a product, it purchases the item from a third party and ships it directly to the customer.

There are dozens types of contact you are able to offer your customers in your online business. Understand your business model and the customres and choose what goes best with them!