If you are a local business, or want to cater to the online audience, you must have a store set up online where you could sell your goods. Having a business blog is very different from creating an online store. The latter allows you to directly sell your goods, deliver them and receive payment from the buyers.
An online store is a platform for mostly small businesses where artists, freelancers and solopreneurs where they can showcase their products and creations and sell them to an online audience. This works because online shopping is the craze among people because it is comfortable to shop for products sitting online at home.
In today’s article, I will walk you through the steps required to create an online store and start selling your products on the web to make more profit. You select the product, make payment online and you get the product shipped to your home.
Building simple business websites is not that tough nowadays; though creating an e-commerce portal requires a lot of efforts because so many modules are needed to be developed in it. In such situation, why are you still selling products offline?
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If you really want to create an online store with minimum efforts and at affordable prices then you should not be worried at all because I will show you a solution which lets you create stunning and lead generating online shop. Wix offers WixStores with which you can create the store in just a few clicks.
You might have a few questions if you haven’t heard of wix. So let me clarify your doubts.
What is Wix?
Founded in 2006, Wix is a leading and the best online website builder on the World Wide Web. The founders created it with a vision to offer people to create websites without any use of coding and difficult web settings. The vision turned out to be great, and now it is currently has 64,639,918 users registered and still counting.
If you want to create a website with Wix.com, you don’t even need to think about the design and all because it offers a wide range of stunning templates. You can check out the gallery and select the best one for your brand new website.
What is Wix Stores?
Wix Stores is an online store builder offered by Wix, which helps you create stunning online stores effectively.
If you want to sell products online, then you must have an e-commerce website, which also known as an online store. And in that case, wixStores is a great choice because it helps create your own online store quickly.
There are beautiful looking store templates available in the wixstores’ gallery, and all the templates are fully mobile optimized.
How to build an online store with WixStores?
Creating an online store with WixStores is quite easy. To create your own store, just you need to visit WixStores, and you have to click on “Create your store” button.
This will take you to sign in/sign up page that looks as:
Do the signup process and then sign into it, upon signing in, it will take you to the Wix.com’s account page.
Now click on “Start creating now”, it will take you to template gallery where all the categories will be visible. You need to select online store then sub-category of your choice to display the store templates.
Now, as you have a number of e-commerce templates in front of you, you can select the one you like the most and which fits into your requirement.
Let’s suppose you choose Geek Overload Template, now you need to edit the template and change the things according to your requirements using the tools shown in the left side.
Editing is so simple that you can do in just a few clicks. For example, I am in the editor, and I have clicked the text and it became editable.
So now, just need to replace the text and that’s it! Simila