Online Marketplace Development

Do not have your own business and willing to have one without any of your products or services? Opt to go for a Marketplace development, a Custom Development, on CakePHP as it will give you much freedom, flexibility and scalability to launch your one and only customized online Marketplace web portal.


Here you attract sellers and service providers to showcase your business and affiliate system vision and their profit through traffic coming to your website. Sellers post and sell items, Service providers post services and sell and you earn commission on every sale on your website. You need not worry about any delivery as sellers are forwarded the order details automatically and they do the needful for buyers. Sounds like a great idea. Isn’t it?


Let us give you complete process and how you get to have one of your own marketplace attracting renowned sellers and online buyers growing your business step by step.


First Step: Programming Platform


For all websites and web application development, you need a development platform. To name a few are PHP/MySQL and .NET/MS SQL. Both are equally promising platforms and equally secure. PHP/MySQL is available without any licensing needs where .NET/MS SQL will need licensing to work on it. So the first question here is to decide whether to go with a free platform or a paid one. Mind it the free one is also EQUALLY SAFE, ROUST and SECURE.


So let us go with PHP/MySQL. Programming can be done using some robust frameworks like CAKEPHP, ZEND etc using MVC architecture. Again both CakePHP and Zend are equally good and provide you equal flexibility. So let us decide on CakePHP.


Second Step: Graphic Design


Today is the trend of responsive designs compatible with all platforms and devices. With today’s mobility trend, it is always recommended to go for a responsive web design or your target mobile users will not be able to look your website friendly and hence the loss of attraction. So go for a responsive design with your taste of colors, fonts, images etc.


Third Step: Decide on the right Website Development Company


Points to be taken proper care while choosing a website development company:


Company has both Graphic Designers as well as Developers


Expertise on Marketplace development


Portfolio on marketplace


Whether you get one point of contact so that communication do not get messed up


Regular updates on progress on the project


Iterations process


Testing of the application


What will be the project plan so that you can track what is next and whether precious planned was completed on time


After Delivery support


Change request procedure


Additional / hidden costs


Fourth Step: Detailed Project Kick Off meeting with the team


A kick off meeting should be done with the team so that the information and project specification as well as your expectation from the team is conveyed prior to starting on the project


Fifth Step: Communication platforms and frequency


Confirm with the company and team about their availability for online meeting and discussions on weekly basis.


Sixth Step: Getting Delivery


It often happens that project gets delayed and there may be several reasons as mentioned below:


Slow Feedback from your end


Team member non availability due to leaves and other unavoidable reasons


Change requests


Iterations


Etc


You therefore have to keep all above points in a feasible approach to get your website development cone on time.


Final Step: Marketing of your website


It is a process which takes some time after launch and should be taken care of properly as this is the one of the most important key to your success. It should be inclusive of:


Online Marketing


SEO


Banner ads


Digital Ads


Word of mouth


Social Media Promotion etc


We believe the above article would have given you good insight into the processes and steps you should take when you decide to go online with your Marketplace business launch planning and implementation. For details about web development visit the website http://www.webvirtue.com/php-web-development.php
Bio - Webvirtue Technology is one of the top notch offshore web design and development company in India, Delhi offering responsive website design, Website Development, web applications, e commerce solutions and mobile application development worldwide.
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Offshore ecommerce website development companies in India

Ecommerce is a common thing now a days and you can find thousands of ecommerce website designing companies in India. The question is how you will find the best suitable provider for your ecommerce website. This article is specifically written to help you come out with a clear and sound confidence in making your decision.

Ecommerce can be considered just as electronic commerce which is available there for many industry verticals where customers are paying the fee online using payment gateway. We however in this article are focusing on shopping cart driven websites focusing on selling products and services. Product can be anything (physical or digital) and services can also be considered likewise.

In this article we are covering all those websites which are selling either physical or digital products and services from multi variety providers for multiple service industry like doctor’s consultancy, taxation consultancy, hotel and tourism industry selling tour packages etc.

Again it can be a website with products from only one brand or seller and there can be a multi seller websites as well. However the concept is the same i.e. selling physical or digital goods and various services.

Let us concentrate on your business and industry you are in. When we say business and industry we basically mean whether you are a stand along seller, service provider or you want a website with multiple sellers listed selling their individual products which we also call marketplace websites.

What factors you should consider:

Case 1: You are a standalone seller with all your products and not products from multiple sellers.

Here you should be very clear on the following points:

The Ecommerce Website Development Company who have provided you with their proposal – How good their understanding is on your website scope of work. Having said scope of work, we basically mean the various features and functionality. So your work is to confirm with them about their understanding and ask them to provide you the scope document so that you know what all features they will develop in what cost.

Once you receive the scope of work, study it properly and confirm if it covers or misses points which you are looking for. If it covers all you can confirm the scope document. However please also note that some companies will provide you more options and features than your need so you can ask them to either remove the unwanted features to get a reduced cost or you can ask them for additional cost for those unwanted features so that you can in future ask them if you want to have those features.

Once you finalize the project scope of work, ask them for a proper efforts estimation so that you can have complete transparency on which feature needs how much efforts and then you can also decide again to either revise the scope if it is not meeting your budget OR you can opt for features which you think you can pay for and have more featured website.

Ask the company about the platform they will use. If you have some platform specification you can tell them or let them come up with their suggestions as they are experts in their fields.

You can come across individual freelancers who can be a pretty cost saving approach. However big risks are attached here with your plan to save as you do not know what capability the individual has where with companies you can be more aware of and confident about their project handling processes. If you decide to go with an individual freelancer, be sure of the following:

Ask them for references with whom they would have worked wither Websites or personal references where from you can cross check.

Ask them if they will do both web design and development as mostly the individual person will be having only one expertise i.e. either Graphic Design or Web Development. In case the freelancer tells you he/she will do the development, ask them where from they will get the graphic design and make sure you pay only when you have the work in front of you. Milestone payments are always preferred to be on the safer side.

Ask them where they will show you the progress.

Ask them to get your code deployed on some of your server location or get the code on SVN so that you have access to the code as well in case the freelancer disappears in the middle of development.

Ask the companies about how they will process the complete development. Ask them for a project plan.

Ask and confirm about the communication mode/channel for project communication. Prefer to have weekly skype call. It also makes a strong relationship which in turn opens a lot more room of comfort and transparency.

Confirm with the developer whether they are using any open source platform or doing custom coding.

Confirm if you will have one point of contact.

Have a Kick off meeting with the team before commencement and confirm which module will be started and which are next so that you are in knowledge of what has been completed and what is coming next.

Confirm who will do the testing and whether you will receive completely tested website.

Preferred is the approach to have your data uploaded on the website before launch or just launch the Beta.

Webvirtue Technology is one of the top notch offshore web design and development company in India, Delhi offering responsive website design, Website Development, web applications, e commerce solutions and mobile application development worldwide.

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