E-Commerce and Internet Technologies

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I will be discussing E-commerce and Internet technologies. In this blog I will discuss what I feel like would be the best online platform to start and grow an e-commerce business for a new gym, a new clothing boutique and also a new café.

 

 

E-commerce refers to the buying and selling of goods and services online. These transactions can be business to business, business to consumer or consumer to consumer. Internet technologies refers to a group of technologies that can allow a user to access information and communicate over the world wide web.

For more information on e-commerce see below link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUNchZeLDBc

 

A new gym:

The online platform that I think would best help a new gym to engage in e-commerce is glofox. Glofox is an online platform used especially for sporting purposes. Glofox advertises that they can grow revenue by 133% and streamline your business with Glofox gym and studio management software. Glofox can help to simplify business management activities such as automating class schedules, booking, payments, etc. Glofox also displays your overall performance in a single dashboard. Glofox can also reduce your costs. Glofox has no hidden costs, no contracts and its also a once a month low price.  The easy check in system allows the gym to track attendance for fitness classes. The app also allows easy communication with members. With the simplicity of the automated class schedules and payments this frees up more time for employees to use for a different task.

 

A new clothing boutique:

The online platform that I think would best help a new clothing boutique to engage in e-commerce is Shopify. Shopify is a great online platform for building an online clothing store. On Shopify you can easily build your store and start to sell your products. There are also plans at different prices with different features to meet your business's needs. Shopify is designed for business to business buying. Shopify has many built in features such as company profiles, customer specific product publishing, quality rules, price lists, easy reordering, flexibility getting paid, global expansion and many more. Easy reordering encourages recurring sales by making it easy for customers to reorder frequently. Flexibility getting paid also streamlines the order process with drafts, payment reminders and invoices. Shopify has very flexible integrations therefore you can spend less time managing multiple platforms and using automated order processing. Shopify also has celebrity entrepreneurs such as Kylie Jenner and Justin Bieber.

 

A new café:

The online platform that I think would best help a new café to engage in e-commerce is Toast. Toast is trusted by thousands of cafes and restaurants of all sizes. Toast offers a starter kit package, this is the ideal platform for cafes with fewer than 10 employees. Using a cloud based POS system like Toast will allow your café to grow and also allow you to drive for great hospitality. Toast's all in one platform has tools for integrated payments, handhelds, kitchen display screens, advanced reporting, out of the box integrations and many more. Toast offers 24/7 support and top tier reliability. Restaurants and cafes who have been using Toast have outperformed their competitors by 10-30%. In 2021, Toast was ranked as G2’s leading restaurant point of sale.