E-commerce SaaS examples

• Volusion
• Bigcommerce
• Xwix
• Shopify
• Yahoo! Small Business
• SQUARESPACE
• 1ShoppingCart

Actual cost of SaaS

• Setup fee
• Monthly fee
• Time
  • Set up products/ prices / inventory items / descriptions
  • Set up payment methods
  • Design and populate template materials(photos, logos, look of site)
  • Provide the infrastructure for order fulfillment, shipping, customer support

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

ERP is an acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning; a term that is used for business management systems which are designed to integrate the data sources and processes of an entire organization into a unified system.

Business Processes for E-Commerce

• Order Entry
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Inventory Management
• Production Control/Scheduling/WIP Inventory
• Quality Systems(Test Results, Quality Downgrade, Defect Management)
• Shipping
• Procurement / Purchasing

Mobile Website Approaches

• Develop a responsive site that adjusts or resizes to fit the screen on which it is running.

• Develop a mobile site so that when a user access the URL from a mobile device, the user is redirected to the mobile optimized site.
  • a separate domain, usually beginning with m.(dot).