As the pandemic of Covid-19 has forced us to stay indoors and practise social distancing, buying products online has surged resulting in minimum interaction with people in the physical store.
From cloths, accessories which were already being bought online before, the situation has led to increase in buying the usual grocery on the internet too.

So if you want to start building your business online and get sales generating for you during this low economy period, setting up an ecommerce store / website can be a great way to get started.

What is an Ecommerce Store / Website?

By the definition, an e-commerce store is a website or online portal where you can sell products & services to people.
Transactions; be it buying of products or selling business services, had been going on for centuries. Now its all done electronically.
As the world is moving towards the digitalization, data security and privacy are of more concern. So before investing in e-commerce, have a better understanding of all the technicalities of building and maintaining ecommerce website or store.

How Can E-Commerce Boost Your Small Business Sales?

With the advancement of Internet on daily basis, ecommerce has itself revolutionised the way the business is done. Even then small business are not aware of the impact of having ecommerce website that can bring about a massive change in their sales and growth.
Here are some benefits:

Reach New Customers
People now buy everything online, especially millennials. With an e-commerce store created for your business, you can reach to the millennials and capture more customers.

Sell More Products Online
Having GBs of space to list products, an ecommerce store allows you to take orders and sell more & more without any hassle.

No Time Restrictions
An e-commerce website allows you to make money while you rest. Yes! an ecommerce website is open 24/7 365 days, meaning there are no restrictions on when people can buy your products on your ecommerce store.

Run Your Business from Anywhere
As long as you have access to the internet, you can run your ecommerce store from wherever you are: be that in your office, home or coffee shop.

Measure, Analyse & Reporting
With the right tools, you can study your customers what they are interested to buy and what they are not. This way you can constantly optimize your product and pricing offering for increased sales.

Top 5 platforms for building your Ecommerce Store in 2021

1. Shopify
2. BigCommerce
3. Magento
4. WooCommerce
5. Squarespace

Shopify

One of the leading ecommerce solution available in the market with over 1 million businesses across 175 countries, Shopify is the right eCommerce platforms to build your online store from scratch.
Absolutely best for beginners and small=to-medium size businesses, Shopify has everything you need, from storefront design to content marketing to performance analytics.

BigCommerce

An open SaaS solution, BigCommerce provides vendors a sophisticated enterprise-grade functionality, performance with simplicity and ease-of-use. Best for SMBs & MM who have to manage a large and complex catalogs, BigCommerce includes a lot of out of the box features and allows third-party applications integrations. The highlight of this ecommerce platform is that it supports both B2C and B2B businesses on the same platform.

Magento

Magento is one of the most popular open-source ecommerce platforms in the world. Originally released in 2009, it now exists in two versions: Magento Open Source and Magento Commerce.
Magento is best for small-to-medium scale businesses. This ecommerce platform for 2021 is a very powerful and has a library of over 5,000 extensions. The only setback is that is requires a longer development time and a larger budget than most of its competitors.

WooCommerce

This particular ecommerce platform is free, open-source WordPress shopping cart plugin owned and developed by WordPress. 30% of all stores on the internet are using this platform for selling products online.
WooCommerce is best ecommerce platform in 2021 for small businesses that already have a site on WordPress or who wants a robust online store at best budget price. With thousands of third-party themes and plugins, WooCommerce offers great flexibility for vendors needs.

Squarespace

A New York-based SaaS company that provides ecommerce store building and hosting to customers. Highlight of this ecommerce platform is drag-and-drop functionality and pre-built website templates that makes it easy for a non technical person to handle his ecommerce store without hassle.
This platform is best in the market for entrepreneurs and small business owners with basic ecommerce needs. Only setback is that it cannot efficiently support businesses who handle a large amount of inventory. In such case, the business need to check on more dedicated ecommerce platforms.

Hiring a Ecommerce website development company to build the best ecommerce website that can boost your revenue in 2021

Building your own ecommerce store from scratch is great! you save on cost by not having to pay others for setting it up for you. But in this bargain you might miss out on the important points that only an agency or ecommerce website development company would know.
To avoid waste of time and efforts, its best to hire an ecommerce website designing and development company who would take care of your entire ecommerce store from technical point of view to marketing it online.

One stop solution for all your e-commerce web development needs

Being one of the best eCommerce website development companies in Goa, Leigia Solutions provides competent solutions to businesses from all sectors. We have successfully setup various B2B and B2C projects that show our credibility in delivering high-end eCommerce website designs and development. Our specialist team of e-commerce website developers specializes in providing Magento and WordPress e-commerce solutions and support. We are a results-driven website design company in Goa catering to Corporate, Travel, Hospitality, Real estate businesses by building responsive websites to provide excellent online shopping cart solutions.
We deliver all that you need for eCommerce store!

1. Interactive E-commerce Solutions
   100% effective, fully-featured & flexible ecommerce solution to expand your customer base.
2. Time-Bounded Project Delivery
   We have successfully delivered result-oriented e-commerce projects to date.
3. Inexpensive e-commerce store
   We provide high quality and cost-effective e-commerce solutions in Goa, India and around the Globe.
4. Updated technology
   Our experts are experienced and have a rich working knowledge with the various platforms and technologies such as Magento, Woo Commerce etc.

So, looking to improve your business sales and get more customers visit and buy from you?
Hire us, as we are experts in developing innovative, scalable and high-performance e-commerce websites that will boost your business revenue in 2021 tremendously!