E-Commerce Benefits
Introduce Another Channel To Market
- Your business web site can take orders 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and is readily accessible to customers all over the world. A successful business web site can produce a highly profitable revenue stream.
Lower the Cost of Order Processing
- The direct cost-of-sale for an order taken from a web site should be lower than through traditional means (retail, paper based), as there is no human interaction during the on-line electronic purchase order process. Also, electronic selling should virtually eliminate processing errors, as well as being faster and more convenient for the visitor.
No Physical Space Limitations
- You can offer more products with an eCatalogue, than you can physically stock on shelves.
Buy and Sell Quicker
- Requirements, brochures, quotations, purchase orders, delivery schedules, etc., can be eMailed within seconds to your suppliers and customers all over the world. The whole process of buying and selling can be made much more efficient and responsive using eMails.
Boost Sales With Exports
- Use your web site and eMail as a low cost way of extending the geographical reach of your business marketing activities, and to develop a global export market for your products and services.
Exchange and Share Data Across the World
- Text messages, documents, graphics, photographs, music, video, CAD/CAM files, and much more, can be converted into data and sent as eMail attachments or presented on a web site. There are no postage, printing and packaging costs with eCommerce communications. So, use this new communications' method to work quicker, and in new ways, with customers and suppliers outside of your locality or country.
Update Employees Instantly With New Policies or Procedures
- eMail works well when communicating with colleagues who are off-site, out of the country, or teleworking.
Hold Web Meetings (Data Conferencing)
- A great way to have a virtual meeting is to upload a document (spreadsheets, project plans, etc) on to a web site and enable it to be viewed and edited in real-time through the Internet. Holding virtual meetings can save significantly on travel expenses and time.
Use the Internet to Improve Business Administration
- With a mobile 'phone connected to a portable computer, employees working off-site can access and up-date internal information, such as customer records, price lists, time sheets, schedules, and job reports. Providing remote Internet access for staff makes it possible for the latest information to be at hand, for administrative tasks such as invoicing, employee whereabouts, and expense claims.
Introduce Collaborative Working
- With fast, reliable, and cheap eCommerce communications, it is possible for colleagues, customers, suppliers and partners, to use collaborative working practices to manage, share, and enhance project work, regardless of location.