3 Options for a no hassle online store

Lets face it. eCommerce is hard. If you’re starting up a business for the first time, there are things you need to at least understand before you can start selling. Taxes and shipping to name but a few. But there are services out there that take the headache out of setting up your online shop, offering turn key, hosted services that are affordable. I recommend the following services not only to get your website up and running quickly but your very own online store.

Shopify

Website: http://www.shopify.com/

Pricing: The basic package is $29/mo

There are many well designed themes for any store you would want and there is a vibrant community of professionals for custom development. They have a 14 day free trial with no credit card required so check them out.

Big Commerce

Website: https://www.bigcommerce.com/

Pricing: The basic package is $29.95/mo

This service is similar to Shopify. They too have professionally designed themes and vibrant developer community. They also have 15 day free trail with no credit card required.

Squarespace

Website: http://squarespace.com/

Pricing: A personal account runs you $8/mo

I wrote about Squarespace in my article Great options for creating your own website. Squarespace not only allows you do build a beautiful website using an intuitive drag and drop interface but allow you with is cheapest packing to sell 1 product and accept donations and with its other two packages have a fully integration eCommerce solution.

If you check out one of these great services above, let me know your experience in the comments.