You run a high street business and also sell some of your products using Ebay. You would like to continue with Ebay but also expand your online presence by having your own website with e-commerce capability.

• A larger product line
• No cost to list and display items
• A bigger 'window display', with more photos and detailed product descriptions
• Reaching a wider market
• Your own website address which you could have links to from your Ebay store
• Easier listing on search engines
• You could synchronise the two sites automatically
• Get customers to write product reviews

Possible Solutions

Packaged Software

You could use an existing package, there are some designed with Ebay in mind that allow you to add more features to your Ebay experience. These have been written by small companies with specific requirements in mind however, that may not match yours.

Ebay also offer 3 or 4 solutions to enable your system to communicate with theirs. These are quite complex to use and even if you use an e-commerce package to create your 'external' site, you may need to employ a specialist to link the two together. We have found that it is not easy to get a package built site to work with Ebay smoothly.

Specialist employed to design and build your site

This is an option, although probably a fairly expensive one due to the complex nature of the task.

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