Selling on Popular Sales Channels: An Ultimate Guide – #3

OpenCart Development

OpenCart is yet another interesting ecommerce platform with easy setup to build an online ecommerce store. OpenCart offers loads of themes and add-ons that are free and you can get an active site with distinct payment options totally free.

On the contrary ecommerce sales channels like Woo Commerce & Shopify take charges from you. Well, let us take a look at how OpenCart development can advantage and disadvantage sellers while they use it.

OpenCart Advantage

  • It is FREE & actively developed shopping cart
  • It’s an open source platform with huge amount of themes & add-ons.
  • Paid extensions has low price
  • It is fast and has multi store functionality
  • Admin interface is appreciable


 OpenCart Disadvantage

  • It can slow down the site load speed keeping user waiting
  • Themes cannot be modified
  • New module codes can be vulnerable to threats online
  • Hook system & event system are poor, not like drupal or symfony.
  • Without event system you cannot do anything in the module

Contact our experts for low priced & multi-functional OpenCart Development Services.


Along with OpenCart development services our professional eBay Store Designer offers a variety of eBay design templates & listing templates.

Visit us and browse our portfolio to explore our designs. Let us know which design is your favorite. Also do follow and like us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest.

“Simplicity is more elegant”

The above phrase refers to “Diamond” the colorless gem. Although without being colorful diamond is recognized with its beauty where ever you see it. So, considering the diamond example, we develop our designs where we use balanced level of colors instead of too many colors as they make the template noisy urging the visitor to skip your products listing very easily.

Plain white backgrounds with dark shades are trending more these days adding a royal feel to the designs. When you look at these exemplary designs it gives eye soothing pleasures. 

Along with simplicity you need to tempt your customers so that they stay for a long time and visit your store repeatedly. Luring your customers shall be done swiftly with a “Hot Product” offer with heavy discount for a limited period of time. Now this will really tempt your customers to check your store every day for new product offers.

Our eBay Shop Design have managed to keep Categories with solo Image for many clients

Many clients have customized the category to be as simple as possible with only a single image and that too plain in color. Believe us this works well with customers. When you keep categories simple the customer has to put less effort in finding their desired product. The easy going search crave customer to go for other pages. 

Easy navigation through store pages must be the basic feature of any design and this common element attracts repeated visitors on the store. Simple yet beautiful design, customer oriented product line & top notch customer services elevate sales more than any other app or service.  

Contact us for commendable eBay Shop Design to make your online store worth as your product. We have wide collection of designer templates that will suit every type of business. If you are planning for a new store, just drop us a mail & our talented eBay store designer will get back to you immediately.

Browse our portfolio page and see if you like something. Follow us on social media to stay updated.

What else you can do with an eBay store design?

A colorful eBay design will jump start your online sales in few hours, same as millions of newbie sellers do every seconds on eBay. Wait it’s not only sales for what you are here? Only selling will get you some real bucks, but what about massive sales and repeated sales? So, here is the answer - you need to do some smart sales and for that you need to figure out the techniques to do the same.

There are many ways to attract online buyers to your stores, but you succeed only when you get repeated visitors on the stores and they eventually convert into real buyers. Moreover, these real time buyers shall continue to buy from your store and that is also equally important.

A short guide to do the same is explained here.

Define your business with your LOGO: Only colorful eBay store design is not enough, an appealing logo will speak everything about your products and business. Take help of a creative expert. Design an extravagant logo and you will see an increase in your online traffic. Use your logo as a brand icon among your buyers, this will create a brand of your business & product. Successful businesses have the history of logos behind it. You can Google it.

Use catchy Taglines: 
To get repeated visitors and repeated sales you need to be strongly present in customer’s conscious memory, but HOW? Create a tagline add to your logo and lay more stress on this tagline while marketing your store online. Remember the tagline must be short and easy to memorize.

Use Product Images: Picture speaks loud, clear and more than words. Use high resolution images and moreover your own images. Try to reduce the frequency of using images that others use frequently on web. Use multiple angle images of single product to give better perspective.

Use Videos: Apart from HD images, upload a product video so that visitors get more idea about the product. Sound and picture together lays more emphasis on human mind. It is pure science.

Do some shuffling: Timely change the content, images, products etc. on your store to give it a fresh look. Also schedule a regular update for blog entries, articles, post, twitter and Facebook pages. Visitors always strive to see something new, so give them. This practice will be a reason for them to come back.

Be Informative: Off course visitors will go for product information, but other than that give knowledge based info to them. Write a short story on the product’s journey from factory to showroom. Also narrate some entertaining facts about your products. Education based info helps selling more.

Stay in touch: Schedule a weekly or monthly newsletter about new arrivals, special discounts, season greetings etc. but do not OVERDO IT. Your next letter may open up in spam. Use logo and tagline in these letters. Do not fake yourself. Do not always lure customers with discounts. Many of them don’t really bother. Be genuine & give genuine products. Deliver what you promise.

After sales: The most crucial area of your business, and affects both online & offline. Resolve the customer’s query quickly; this will create a positive impression. This positivity will earn you repeated customers. Trace record of successful online or offline business houses; you will see their classic after sales services.

Practice friendly business policy: Do not quarrel with customers. Be friendly while settling any dispute. If the clients ask for refund, exchange, cash back, extra discounts then talk to them personally. Appoint a senior personal capable of taking spot decisions to deal with the situation. Do not keep clients waiting or switch calls from one department to others.

This creates a negative impression and you will lose valuable client. On the other hand this particular client will give negative feedback and influence other clients. Now, this is not done. Hence incorporate friendly policies on your store to serve your client better.