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right, simplicity is the goal. For certain shopowners basic marketing is enough. Not all of them know or use the complicated marketing ideas or strategies.

That's true, my apologies For the storeowner in particular, for the designer is what you have already talked a bit about. I think storeowners need an easy way to add products. They should also have somekind of marketing tools, basic are some reports etc. but any other superduper features?

On the other side, backend wise, anything particular to take care for?

just creating a password and username is sometimes still a barrier but both options should be available. as much reliable payment processors as possible, got it!

I think he needs to be charged for asking such a question

You mean as an anonymous guest without the need to register? that's a great idea, to speed up the process or lower the barrier to buy something.

I think I understand a little what you mean, I think he's doing it the same way. Anyway, if you would like to have a look and give some more feedback that would be great?

Thanks for the input, very usefull, PCI compliant wise, if a 3rd party payment processor is used which is PCI compliant, this should be enough if we don't store/ask de payment info ourselves right? About the templating? do you mean about possibility to upload css or other kind of templates? support is indeed a very important subject.

I know magentocommerce.com and solidshops.com have the options to give different permissions for different logins so you can avoid shopowners messing around the layout.

Hey, I just heard of a new site and they're looking for beta testers so it's still free to do some pricechecks. tagcompete.com haven't tested it out myself yet. good luck

Hi, A friend of mine is working on a hosted eCommerce platform and he wanted to know what the most import features would be. If you would use an hosted eCommerce platform, what would be the most important feature for you? My top 3: flexible enough for the designer reliable hosting possibility for feedback on products I would love to hear your input

Are you open to other platforms or you want to stay with prestashop?

If you're creating an ecommerce site for clients it's easier to get existing ones. There are a lot of opensource carts you could use but if you don't want to mind the hassle of managing server yourself with backups and such you can go for hosted carts. ex: magento/solidshops/spiffystores hope you find what you need

Hi all, I'm a eCommerce & eMarketing enthousiast who wants to learn and share my knowledge. I'm new at webdesign so hence the reason for this forum.