What is necessary to successfully launch your own store?
In this article, we have collected the most important things that will help you build your own online store according to the most current and successful practices in the field of eCommerce. The individual sub-sections contain links to other help articles to convince you how easy it is to work with the platform.
In this section:
- Creating and organizing a product catalog
- Pages in the online store
- Online store design
- Activating payment methods
- Activating shipping methods
- General settings
- Marketing tools
- Activating apps
- CloudCart Services
Creating and organizing a product catalog
Import (given an available database)
Warehouse programs (if any)
- Database synchronization from warehouse programs - contact our team
Categories
Brands
- Creation and description of brands (vendors)
Products
- Building the product
- Creating a title
- Description and short description of the product
- Categories and subcategories selection
- Category properties
- Product variants
- Brand selection (if the store is multibrand)
- Creation and management of product variants
- Entering Price, SKU, Quantity, Weight
- Adding product images
- Adding video and 360° images
- Recommended: Optimizing Meta Title & Description
- Building the product
Product options
- An additional variant that you can create for a specific product, category or brand. Through it, the customer will have the ability to add a file, text or select an option set by you.
Smart collections
- The easiest way to unite different products into one group
Pages in the online store
(Create in the Marketing section >> Landing pages)
- About us
- Products and Services
- Size Chart
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Customer Reviews and Testimonials
- Return and Replacement
- Shipping and Payment
- Cookie Policy
- Declaration of confidentiality
- Terms and Conditions
- Contacts
Online store design
(Manage from the My Store section >> Themes, Widgets and Navigation)
- Logo and general settings
- Design selection (ready-made professional template)
- Customizing a design (colors, font, image shape)
- Creating a home page (from the Marketing section >> Landing pages)
- Design with the help of Drag & Drop Page Builder
- Section structuring on the home page
- Adding code to landing pages
- Customizing sliders, banners and text fields
- Product catalog setup
- Details
- Sort direction
- Number of products per page/row
- Inventory management
- Displaying filters
- Related products
- Management and ordering of Upper and Lower navigation menus
- Customizing email templates
Activating payment methods
(Manage in the Settings section >> Payments)
- Cash on Delivery
- Bank Wire Transfer
- Online payment with debit/credit card
- PayPal
- ePay
- Braintree
- Stripe
- TBI leasing
- BNP Paribas
- UNICREDIT Consumer Financing
Activating shipping methods
(Manage in the Settings section >> Shipping)
- Econt
- Speedy / DPD
- DHL
- Evropat
- A manually entered shipping method
- Local pick up (if there are physical stores, additional fee)
- Delivery boxes
- Delivery time slots Часови слотове за доставка
- Frequently asked questions
General settings
(Manage in the Settings section >> General, Cart and checkout, Domains, Taxes)
- General settings - logo, currency, company names
- Cart and checkout settings - customizing the checkout
- Quickly add products to the cart
- Installing/purchasing a domain
- Domain settings
- Installing an SSL certificate
- Fee settings
- Invoice settings
- Google Maps via API key
Marketing tools
(Manage in the Marketing section)
- Creation and management of discounts
- Creating landing pages with Drag & Drop Page Builder (e.g. Thank you page)
- SEO management
- Activating customer communication through:
- Using Cross-Sell & UpSell
- Creating an Upsell offer
- Creating a Cross-Sell offer
- Quick order
- Creating Viber campaigns
Activating apps
(Activate in the Apps section)
Mandatory
Recommended apps
- Instagram showcase
- Google Dynamic Ads
- Google Search Console
- Yotpo for comments and reviews
- Get Site Control
- Activating a sales channel integration
CloudCart Services
Contact us if you need expert assistance. We will offer you the right additional services for all settings, advertising or business development that you need.