Dont think cart. Think solution
At Get Online Sydney we believe in the Open Source platform it enables you to control what you need when you need with full control of the code. Our hosting packages cater for any size ecommerce solution, we cater for small stores to large well extablished online brand's. As your traffic grows, you can upgrade your plan to suit the needs of your growing online presence, your website isn't stuck on a slow, overcrowded host, on overseas servers.
All Get Online Sydney hosting services reside in our Sydney datacenter, keeping your intellectual propertiy within Austalian borders.
Ready-hosted ecommerce services have inherent problems:
- Lack of Uniqueness: Ready-hosted carts suffer from lack of uniqueness (all sites look and work the same). For example, you can usually spot a ready-hosted ecommerce website by it's three columns, it's forced registration, and its floating right-side cart. Checkout logic is the same for every user on most hosted platforms. In other words, it's not tailored to your particular business and shopper. Boring. It hurts the brand to look like everyone else. Visitors forget you... and the logical flow may not fit the way you do business.
- Lack of Flexibility: As your business grows, a ready-hosted ecommerce service may not add the features you need to grow your business to the next level. You may have little or no control over future development or upgrades. Get Online Sydney provides an Open Source solution. So, you're not dependant on us for future development. At your project's completion, you'll have full access and rights to the source code. In other words, you won't be stuck and you can control future development.
- Lack of Business Control: If you lack the source code for your ecommerce website, and your Web developer goes bust or changes ownership, you're stuck. In the worst case scenario, you'd have to start over from scratch. That's never the case with Get Online Sydney since you receive full rights to the source code at the project's conclusion.
We build what you need for your business.
- Our Open Source solution has been designed for modularity. You're not limited to a fixed set of features. Rather, we deliver exactly what you need for your business. Shrink-wrapped, closed-source, and hosted solutions can't match the level of customization that's possible with open source packages like Magento. Magento can accommodate complex business rules and functionalities, including non-standard checkouts, huge inventories, complex promotions, or almost anything you could dream up. Yes, it's all possible
It works like this:
- You describe your "dream ecommerce site" – irrespective of cost. Add the features you need to be successful. Since we have a module for almost everything, your "dream features" might cost less than you expect.
- For sites that need complex add-ons, like a dating script or auction script, we can advise you on the vast resources of Open Source freeware available and the customisation work involved in bringing this inline with your website. That's part of the beauty of Open Source.
- After we've gathered your project specs, asked questions, and exhanged ideas with you, we'll draft an initial project proposal. The proposal will cover everything:
- Exact features and how they'll work
- Exact technology to be used
- Exact browser compatibility
- Exact costs and timelines
- Exact project deliverables
- Exact usage rights (in agreement)
There are no hidden costs. There are no monthly fees. There are no per-transaction fees from us. You control your website.
But what makes it usable?
"Dont make me think..."
The essense of usability can be summed up in Steve Krug's famous phrase: Don't Make
Me Think (a Web-industry standard text).
Remove possible frustrations:
Visitors don't have time to figure out your Website. Make it obvious and easy or they'll
leave. For example: why insist that phone numbers can't have dashes? A usable site
doesn't set up unnecessary roadblocks that risk overloading the "frustration factor."
Design starts with user goals:
Some ecommerce sites sell digital downloads. Others sell tangible goods. Some require
recurring billing. Each has a different logic flow, which must be supported by the design to
achieve a high conversion rate (good sales). That's where Get Online Sydney excels.
Consistency, labelling, color logic, layout and design emphasis should guide and support user actions, so the sale or signup is most likely to be completed. In short: template websites don't move merchandise.
