subject: E-commerce Platforms Can Be Delivered Faster Using Open Source Packages Without Compromising On Qual [print this page] As the global economic crisis has continued and as people in many countries, particularly in the developed world, are having to cope with unemployment or lower incomes, they are also becoming increasingly careful about how and where they spend their money.
In the retail sector there has been a noticeable decline in high street spending in shops, with the result that many have reported declining profits or gone out of business altogether.
Keeping a retail outlet on a town high street is expensive in terms of rents, leases, business taxes and the operating costs of heating, lighting, security and staffing and those retail businesses that have survived are increasingly offering the opportunity to shop online, often at a slight discount.
Some retailers have reduced the size of stores, making them showrooms for people to browse, but then offering the purchase option online either through a mobile phone or PC application.
There is evidence that many consumers are buying online because of the savings that are possible by not having to maintain expensive premises.
Choosing to shop online is not only about price, however, it is also about convenience. It makes it possible to browse when shops are traditionally closed and conveniently at a time that suite the buyer and to then order online to complete the transaction with the goods being delivered directly to the home.
Consequently many entrepreneurs are seeing business opportunities in setting up e-commerce online stores and to do so they need the services of application developers who can set up an attractive website with perhaps a mobile phone friendly version and application to enable people to browse and buy wherever they are.
Many people think that it is necessary to have an e-commerce application designed from scratch rather than using the open source software that is widely available.
They believe that if they do not do so they will have to compromise on quality and transaction speed. However, custom-building by application developers can take much more time to build and test and consequently be a very costly exercise.
Expert application developers in India, where there is a great deal of expertise in this field, advise that using open source e-commerce platforms does not mean sacrificing quality.
They argue that there are plenty of open source options that allow for full customisation so that the client gets the look and design feel and features that they want but with the advantage of ready tested back-end functionality that can be adapted readily rather than built from scratch.
Using an open source platform means that the app developer will be able to deliver the website more quickly, fully ready and functional and the client will be able to start trading before someone else comes up with a similar idea and they lose the advantage of being the first to offer a particular product or service.
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