Re: The Best Shopping Cart Solution I Have Come Upon
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texte = Donavan to make a long email short. We have a client that does $7,500 a month in sales with their Yahoo.com store and monthly cost to Yahoo.com is less then $200.00 Also before they had a Yahoo.com store their sales where in the Toilet one year later sales increased by 700% all because of the Yahoo.com store and it's network of sites. That is one of the biggest reason to use it. I am not knocking WebCatalog/DNA just we have found it not to be the best solution for stores and Yahoo has been. Also keep in mind that cost vs. features is always an issue. But allowing clients to upload images that get instantly resized, having PDF files emailed to them with all invoice details and being able to make any item set to instant discount with any coupon code on the fly is a hugh plus. And is easy for the client to do. I am sure WebCatalog can do all of this but the upfront costs would be hugh. We build Yahoo.com stores in one week for clients with less then 100 items and charge $5,000 to add all items, set up the store, shipping and merchant account. All the client has to do is say yes and give us credit card details. Just my two cents again, Jeff Logan >Jeff Logan wrote: >> What does the Yahoo.com store not have that you would need for custization. >> Our stores kind of look all the same since we want to make them easy for >> the customer to adjust but look at these other Yahoo.com Stores and how >> great they look and the functionality they have. Plus all major companies >> like Kmart, WalMart, JCPenny, Macy's all have Yahoo.com stores. That is >> proof enough for me that Yahoo.com is the best solution. >> >> Jeff >> >> Just look at some other yahoo.com stores. >> >> http://shopping.yahoo.com > >Here is my thoughts on this Jeff. > >I visited purple haze lavendar. I thought everything >looked good and I don't doubt the functionality of Yahoo. >I suppose its all what fits best for your needs. > >Here are my thoughts... > >Pricing is more and it is also *wierd* from my research. >(ref. http://store.yahoo.com/vw/pricing.html) > >Yahoo: >There is a cost for hosting your domain somewhere. $20 - $40? > >The relevant Yahoo costs: >* Monthly: $50.00 >* Product Insertion fee:??? WTF? .10 / ave. daily item >* transaction fee: .05 / transaction (this is reletively standard) >* 3.5% revenue share??? WTF? (applied to any item that originates from >*Yahoo networks (whatever that is) > >* Say you have $1200 products. That is $120/00 per month! >* Say you have 20 purchase per day, ave.ing $30, and 1/4 of those are >from *Yahoo Networks*... The total of those 150 sales per month is >$4,500... You will pay Yahoo $157.50 per month for those sales and >you will get $4,342.50. > >So.. In this scenerio you will pay: >$30.00 / mo for regular domain >$50.00 / mo mo charge >$120.00 /mo PIF >$157.50 /mo RS fee > >$357.50 /mo for your Yahoo store. > >Lets look at this same store with an Authnet account. > >Authnet account. >* Setup fee. 100 (One time fee that we don't care about for this purpose) >* gateway or seller fee: someone can fill this in but I believe it to be >minimal (.05 per trans?). >* transaction fee: (nulled by yahoo fee not counted (maybe slightly >higher than yahoos ie .10)) >* domain hosting: $50-$70 ? >* SSL Cert: (One time fee that we don't care about for this purpose >(maybe 400 max)) >* Monthly Charge: $15 - $30 > >Results considering our 1200 product store scenerio: > >* Start up fee of possibly $500 >* $60.00 monthly hosting >* Monthly charge of authnet: $20.00 >* Monthly charge on approx 20 sales per day. >50.00 or so (not including nulled transaction fees) > >Total Monthly cost: $130.00 >Review Total Monthly cost of Yahoo: $357.50 > >Difference of proffit per month: $227.50 >Loss for the year by using Yahoo: $2,730 > >So, to say that Yahoo is better??. I don't have a yahoo store and >I am sure it works good for some stores. >Other concerns for me would be versitality. Obviously they try to >include versitle options, but I doubt they offer language level control. >This would ultimately make WebDNA more versitle. > >Sincerely, Donovan > >-- > =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o > DONOVAN D. BROOKE > Eucalyptus Design > Developer / Consultant > <-Web Development (specializing in eCommerce), -> > <-Graphic Design, and Pre-Press Consultation -> > > ADDRESS:> Donovan Brooke > DBA Eucalyptus Design > P.O. Box 260153 > Madison, WI 53726-0153 > > PH:> 1.608.442.5217 > email:> dbrooke@euca.us > Web:> http://www.euca.us > =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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Donavan to make a long email short. We have a client that does $7,500 a month in sales with their Yahoo.com store and monthly cost to Yahoo.com is less then $200.00 Also before they had a Yahoo.com store their sales where in the Toilet one year later sales increased by 700% all because of the Yahoo.com store and it's network of sites. That is one of the biggest reason to use it. I am not knocking WebCatalog/DNA just we have found it not to be the best solution for stores and Yahoo has been. Also keep in mind that cost vs. features is always an issue. But allowing clients to upload images that get instantly resized, having PDF files emailed to them with all invoice details and being able to make any item set to instant discount with any coupon code on the fly is a hugh plus. And is easy for the client to do. I am sure WebCatalog can do all of this but the upfront costs would be hugh. We build Yahoo.com stores in one week for clients with less then 100 items and charge $5,000 to add all items, set up the store, shipping and merchant account. All the client has to do is say yes and give us credit card details. Just my two cents again, Jeff Logan >Jeff Logan wrote: >> What does the Yahoo.com store not have that you would need for custization. >> Our stores kind of look all the same since we want to make them easy for >> the customer to adjust but look at these other Yahoo.com Stores and how >> great they look and the functionality they have. Plus all major companies >> like Kmart, WalMart, JCPenny, Macy's all have Yahoo.com stores. That is >> proof enough for me that Yahoo.com is the best solution. >> >> Jeff >> >> Just look at some other yahoo.com stores. >> >> http://shopping.yahoo.com > >Here is my thoughts on this Jeff. > >I visited purple haze lavendar. I thought everything >looked good and I don't doubt the functionality of Yahoo. >I suppose its all what fits best for your needs. > >Here are my thoughts... > >Pricing is more and it is also *wierd* from my research. >(ref. http://store.yahoo.com/vw/pricing.html) > >Yahoo: >There is a cost for hosting your domain somewhere. $20 - $40? > >The relevant Yahoo costs: >* Monthly: $50.00 >* Product Insertion fee:??? WTF? .10 / ave. daily item >* transaction fee: .05 / transaction (this is reletively standard) >* 3.5% revenue share??? WTF? (applied to any item that originates from >*Yahoo networks (whatever that is) > >* Say you have $1200 products. That is $120/00 per month! >* Say you have 20 purchase per day, ave.ing $30, and 1/4 of those are >from *Yahoo Networks*... The total of those 150 sales per month is >$4,500... You will pay Yahoo $157.50 per month for those sales and >you will get $4,342.50. > >So.. In this scenerio you will pay: >$30.00 / mo for regular domain >$50.00 / mo mo charge >$120.00 /mo PIF >$157.50 /mo RS fee > >$357.50 /mo for your Yahoo store. > >Lets look at this same store with an Authnet account. > >Authnet account. >* Setup fee. 100 (One time fee that we don't care about for this purpose) >* gateway or seller fee: someone can fill this in but I believe it to be >minimal (.05 per trans?). >* transaction fee: (nulled by yahoo fee not counted (maybe slightly >higher than yahoos ie .10)) >* domain hosting: $50-$70 ? >* SSL Cert: (One time fee that we don't care about for this purpose >(maybe 400 max)) >* Monthly Charge: $15 - $30 > >Results considering our 1200 product store scenerio: > >* Start up fee of possibly $500 >* $60.00 monthly hosting >* Monthly charge of authnet: $20.00 >* Monthly charge on approx 20 sales per day. >50.00 or so (not including nulled transaction fees) > >Total Monthly cost: $130.00 >Review Total Monthly cost of Yahoo: $357.50 > >Difference of proffit per month: $227.50 >Loss for the year by using Yahoo: $2,730 > >So, to say that Yahoo is better??. I don't have a yahoo store and >I am sure it works good for some stores. >Other concerns for me would be versitality. Obviously they try to >include versitle options, but I doubt they offer language level control. >This would ultimately make WebDNA more versitle. > >Sincerely, Donovan > >-- > =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o > DONOVAN D. BROOKE > Eucalyptus Design > Developer / Consultant > <-Web Development (specializing in eCommerce), -> > <-Graphic Design, and Pre-Press Consultation -> > > ADDRESS:> Donovan Brooke > DBA Eucalyptus Design > P.O. Box 260153 > Madison, WI 53726-0153 > > PH:> 1.608.442.5217 > email:> dbrooke@euca.us > Web:> http://www.euca.us > =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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