Without The Software There Will Be No Shoe Delivery
Many of us have an idea and think we could market it and make ourselves rich; well there is a long path between idea and success and even if we get up off our backsides and set about that journey very few succeed.
Internet shopping is no different in that we place an order for let us say a pair of shoes to be delivered the next day. The person who set up that online store is not sitting in his garage surrounded by shoes and eating a sandwich whilst staring at a computer screen waiting for your order.
He or she does not then put down his sandwich and root around for the shoes in the correct size and colour before typing out a receipt and locking up to walk your shoes to the Post Office hoping to remember to put the right postage for your area.
What really happens is that your order and payment is processed by very sophisticated software programs used by giant online stores as well as one man operators. There may be little bespoke tweaks to the software package in use but the result is the same; a smooth process that should guarantee next day delivery.
To give it the correct name of ecommerce software these packages have been developed by some of the very best software specialists in the world of online commerce and with an ever growing world of internet shopping it is essential that the online shopping experience is one hundred per cent satisfactory.
Internet shopping is constantly growing just as many retail outlets are folding and in a short time it has become a surprisingly efficient business. The logistics of processing so many orders has led to a far greater number of home delivery vans charging up and down the motorways and village tracks.
With complaints that this is hardly an environmental improvement someone recently suggested that instead of home deliveries there should be pick-up stations around the country and what better than some of these empty town and village shops.
Instead of ordering a book and expecting it to be delivered to your door you could nominate a collection store close to where you live or work. The next time you are passing you would simply show some identification and sign for the goods.
When you look at the explosion in internet shopping in just ten years since the problems of secure card payments was sorted out, it is anybody’s guess as to the shopping habits of people in another ten years.
Ecommerce software will constantly change to keep up with changing habits and expectations and the only certainty is that more retail outlets will close over the coming years and already town planners are trying to visualise answers to an obvious problem.
Whilst you sleep at night the software that is ecommerce is crunching away processing orders and rearranging stock levels whilst operating accounting procedures and working out how much to pay the VAT man and in the morning with a knock at your door your new shoes will arrive.
Without ecommerce software your shoes would never arrive! http://www.neotericuk.co.uk.
Processing your request, Please wait....
