Setting up your e-commerce store

To begin setting up your e-commerce store, I personally recommend using Shopify. WordPress is fantastic, but Shopify can help decrease errors along the way ensuring your inventory, payments, and customer interactions are seamless. 

• No web hosting hassle: When setting up your site through Shopify, gone are the days of searching for a reliable web host. Shopify has become a true leader in the ecommerce world with over 5 million active Shopify websites. This goes to show that not only is Shopify successful, but its web hosting abilities are trustworthy and reliable. 
• Step by step setup: With Shopify’s step-by-step set up guide, Shopify ensures you have all of the elements needed for a seamless integration of all your processes to be online, ready for consumer action. From choosing a theme, assisting with branding, payments, and customer care, Shopify will ensure everything is complete. 
• Shopify support: run into an issue? No problem. Shopify is there for you. Shopify customer service starts at a contact us form where the turnaround time is one business day. In your form, you can request a call back if you prefer a call over an email. You can also reach separate “departments” for in person selling, their Plus plan, and even enterprise solutions. 
• Shopify Admin: Of course WordPress has an admin dashboard as well, but with Shopify admin you are able to view everything from sales reports, to purchase orders, to individual customer data without needing to install yet another plugin or creating any code.
• Multi channel selling: With Shopify, you are able to control listings across multiple sites in one place. You place the item in your Shopify inventory, update the product information, and in one spot you can control your Facebook, ebay, and even Amazon sales – all through Shopify. 

Overall, Shopify is more simple user friendly than WordPress. With the service of web hosting and seamless integrations, including multi channel selling, you are able to focus less on the technical aspects of your website and more on pushing your sales. It has an easy set up and even allows you to start your business from scratch with their logo builder. You can add many add ons, such as WordPress, but the simple user interface makes it much easier to work with.