Strato Webshop
Strato web hosting company is an industry leading hosting company and they are quite confident that you can create your online shop only in 20 minutes with their webshop packages! Because, their easy to use program with no software required is really handy with ready to use shop features. They also have leading payment & marketing partners like HSBC and eBay.
They also have an ongoing £1 promotion for the beginner webshop (you pay £1 pm for the first 6 months). Other packages like Advanced Shop and Premium Shop are £19.90 and £39.90 pm.
STRATO offers everything you need to build an online store:
- Individual design templates
- Professional marketing tools
- Integrated booking system
- Easy-to-use shop administration
- Inclusive hosting packages
Setup of Shop: Strato hosting pretty confident that you can create your entire shop online with your browser only and it also offers optimization of your. It also comes with a well organised hierarchical product groups. Maximum number of products for beginner shop is 100 which is ok for a small business online shop. And it is 1000 at advanced shop and 20000 for premium shop which is ideal for a large business shop.
Shop Design: Strato offers over 100 templates for various branches with demo menus and content, extensive design possibilities with preview (WYSIWYG, Drag and Drop, Inline Editing), Colour manager, Automatic Sitemap which is great for submitting to Google, Flash (intro) which is not suggested though as search engines cannot crawl flash intros, display of promotional products, product slideshow.
Marketing tools:
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| Google Sitemaps | |
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| TOP! eKomi Customer feedback 6 months trial for free! |
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| Ciao integration | |
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| RSS Feeds | |
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| Gadgets (Youtube, LastFM, Flickr, Google Maps) | |
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| Product bundles | |
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| Product comparison | |
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| Price lists with discounts (e.g. shopping basket discounts) | |
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| eBay integration | |
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| Google Base integration | |
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| Shopping.com integration | |
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| Kelkoo integration | |
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| Product search | |
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| Advanced search function |
