Get Started: E-Commerce Website

CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve made a great decision and it ‘s my pleasure to partner with you to build your new website. Getting started involves a few steps, starting with getting acquainted, then officially committed followed by a systematic process. We both have our own responsibilities that need to be fulfilled to make your site a reality. READY, SET, GO!

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Forward Multimedia owns the keyword ‘e-commerce trinidad’ for a reason: nobody understands the local e-commerce market like I do, and knows what an online store needs to work in T&T. You’re intrigued enough to reach this far. Whatever Magento package you’ve chosen, getting the ball rolling is a simple process:

STEP ONE

SCHEDULE AN MEETING: Give me a call to schedule, I meet you at your location. Here we’ll meet face to face and discuss your online store. If you’ve picked a Magento package, this will be only to exchange ideas and formulate a plan. If you need a custom package, we’ll discuss so I can quote.

Assess domain ownership (see sidebar)
Explain online store process

Discuss site design/layout
Go over TTD payment gateway
Set completion date

STEP TWO

MAKE FINANCIAL COMMITMENT: After formally meeting, I’ll need your financial commitment to make the project official. My standard terms are 50% deposit and the balance is payable when the site is complete and ready to go live.

I'll send an official invoice
Payment by cheque or direct deposit

You 3rd party costs directly (domain/hosting purchase)
Balance payable when site is complete

STEP THREE

SEND SITE CREDENTIALS: If it’s a website redesign, I’ll need your domain/hosting log-ins to begin set-up. If it’s a brand new site then the domain and hosting will be purchased (I’ll assist with the process.

Activate domain with hosting plan
Set up email accounts

Install Magento
Discuss TTD Payment Gateway

STEP FOUR

SUBMIT CONTENT: While we go through the choosing a template round, you should start sending your initial content. My recommended format is text (for pages) in one Word Doc and product info in another, and images in a folder that you can zip and send as an attachment.

Send your images, logos etc.
Send standard site pages (About, Mission, etc.)

Organize product images by category
Use cloud service like Dropbox to share large images

Who Owns Your Domain?

That’s not a trick question. If you already have a website, do you have full access to your domain and hosting accounts? Do you have all the usernames and passwords? Was your domain registered in your name.

Given my experience in the website business, chances are you have no idea what’s going on, nor understand fully the way domains/hosting works,