Benefits

The benefits of having your website as a 'Software as a Service' type of arrangement are numerous, some of the greater benefits are listed here.

• You get a fully functioning, professionally designed and maintained e-store without the massive upfront expense usually associated with the building of this kind of website. E-commerce sites with similar functionality to ours would cost upwards of $10,000 and you would still most likely have to source a third party payment gateway which would incur further expense. Also any maintenance or support would usually be on a pay as you go basis or as a monthly subscription of around $150 / month or more.
• You receive ongoing maintenance and support without the expense of maintaining your own IT department. All our client's sites are continually monitored by our software engineers to ensure that any problems that may occur are acted upon as soon as possible.
• Because this is a 'subscription' all payments should be completely tax deductible when the payment is made, whereas when you buy a website outright you legally have to write it off over 2.5 years. (Check this with your accountant)
• You have all core software updates automatically included at no extra cost so your website is always up to date with the current browsers and technology.
• Access to new modules as they are developed. (depending on the functionality of these modules they may incur extra cost)
• The cost of the site is covered by an affordable monthly subscription, which is fixed for 12 months. Because maintenance and core upgrades are included, you know exactly what your e-store is going to cost. There are no unexpected blow out costs.
• If you feel your site needs a change of look after a couple of years, designing and integrating a 'new skin' is a relatively simple task without the need to have to re-code all of the content as well. This is because the content is loaded dynamically from the database.
• Your products are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to a worldwide market. No extra retail staff required, as e-stores are essentially help yourself, though you may find yourself in need of more staff to help fill your orders and dispatch your products.
• Everything is included in one simple package, payment gateway, hosting, domain name registration and renewals*, maintenance, support and core software upgrades are all included in the price. No need to source a web designer and a programmer and then a payment gateway saving you valuable time that you can focus on running your business.
• Using Software as a Service means a much faster start up for your e-commerce website. This is due to the fact that the core software is already developed, tested and proven. It can take quite a lot of time sourcing the various suppliers, designers and programmers and then trying to compare the differences in what they are offering for the cost of their services. Then there is the time for the development of your site, which so often goes beyond that predicted by the website developer. Which in turn costs you more money.
• Only one bill to pay, and this can be automatically deducted from your chosen bank account or credit card. You know exactly what it is going to cost as the price is set for a year.
  (NB: Transaction Fees are in addition to the monthly subscription charge)
• Maintenance and core upgrades are included in the cost, therefore there are no unexpected costs arising from unforseen technical issues.
• You can have a thriving retail business from the comfort of your home. Or you can operate your e-store in conjunction with your bricks and mortar shop.

* Domain name renewals are only included if the domain name is registered with our domain name registrar. Transfer of a .com.au domain is free if you have already registered your domain name elsewhere.