I first ran into the hired webshop when I was browsing the website of my webhoster. They offered a webshop in
three grades:
- A free version, that does not allow people to pay you
- A cheap one that is limited to 25 commodities but allows payments
- A full blown version that has no real limits
The free one is nice for trying things out and setting up the webshop. The cheap one (still costing €20
per month) allows you to try out payments with your simple webshop. The full blown one, setting you back
€60 per month, does it all. But at a price.
If you know you have hundreds of customers buying your goods each week, it doesn't really matter. Even at 60
euro's per month and 300 customers it's 20 cents per customer. Banking charges will already be higher than
this!
The problem is
- I started a small company
- I got me some stock
- I have no customers as of now
- I have no idea how many customers I will get
- I have lots of cost upfront
- I have limited cash
With these variables in place, I want to reduce all other variables. So a webshop costing me 700 euro's per
year is just over my head. It's a too big risk.
Yet, the €60 webshop seems to be rather cheap. Lots of other webshops for hire start charging at
€150 per month! And most of these shops are modular. You pay extra for each module. Extra costs. Extra
variables. Not now.
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