Selling online from a site you control. The articles cover adding a store, the payment methods worth offering, shipping choices for a small shop, discount codes that protect your margin, the returns and reviews pages that decide repeat custom, and why checkouts get abandoned.
Cards are not the only way to take money online, and for some businesses they are not the first one. Four methods, what each costs you, and which suits an order, a booking or a hire.
Shipping is the most common reason a full basket is abandoned. How to price delivery, when a free-shipping threshold pays for itself, and why one country with no rate blocks a sale.
A code with no floor, no ceiling and no end date is a standing offer. The four settings that turn a discount into a campaign, and the maths behind the number you pick.
Someone reached your checkout and stopped. That is the closest anyone gets to buying without buying. Here is why it happens, what to fix first, and how a reminder email earns some of them back.
Most shops treat returns as a cost and reviews as decoration. Both are doing something more useful: telling a first-time buyer whether it is safe to order from a shop they have never heard of.
Turn your website into a shop: add products, take secure card payments, and start selling - without a separate platform or a developer.