An Ecommerce website is like a shop that operates 24/7/365. An Ecommerce website is essential if you want to sell your products and services and receive payments online using a secure payment gateway. An Ecommerce website must have a lot of essential features and it should be well planned to meet all your business needs - before you start having the website built.

An Ecommerce website must be a database driven website to allow you to add, delete and edit the following: images and text; your product categories; your products including prices, sizes, colours, models etc; your worldwide postal and delivery charges; to manage stock levels

An Ecommerce website must allow your customers to setup and manage their accounts with secure access passwords. An Ecommerce website must allow your customers to search for products; to buy products in various quantities, sizes, colours and models; to have the purchased products collected, posted, delivered or shipped overseas.

Equally important, an Ecommerce website must provide customers with confirmation emails for successful and unsuccessful transactions. It must allow customers to track their deliveries if required. It is essential, to have in place Terms and Conditions for sale, Returns policies, cancellation procedures. Privacy policy and accessibility instructions.