Your products have to get to your customers. Therefore, you need to use a courier company. Compare the prices of several companies. Each company sets prices depending on shipping destinations. You may want to use one company for domestic shippings, and a different one for international shippings. Or depending on how much your products weigh.

FOLIOserver shops allow you to use different courier companies and to ship your products to different areas, and products of different weight. You can also set a “free shipping” from a minimum purchase value.Something else to take into account is the type of container you are going to use for shipping your products. And don't forget to put your business card or flyer inside the box before this is shipped to your customer.

Your online shop must work automatically. It must allow you to apply tax for each country or area. Within a country, there may be areas where tax applies and other areas where they do not.

FOLIOserver shops have the tax options preconfigured and they can be reconfigured. When the customer registers before they purchase, and they enter their country and area, the shop applies the tax that corresponds.

You will also need to apply different types of tax depending on the product. Imagine you sell videotapes and books. Different taxes apply on those. Your virtual shop's software must tell these cases apart. FOLIOserver shops can do this.

You must have thought of using one of those free Ecommerce solutions... well, let's make some calculations:

For any virtual shop website, you need a quality hosting service (minimum 200 euros a year), unless you are prepared to keep your clients waiting (which they'll never do, nobody waits online), and unless you don't mind spending hours and hours just to upload your products.

With a free website, you will have to install all the software and configure your shop completely, from scratch: features, design, parameters, shippings, taxes, etc. In the end, you will not be satisfied with it, and you wil end up hiring a developer to help you out.

On top of this, add the extra hours of work you will have to dedicate to learn how to use the shop, how to set up categories, how to make customers registrations, etc. And hoping that payment gateways do work properly... because, if something goes wrong, it could take you months to find out what the problem is, and to open your shop.

So calculate the cost of all of this, in time and money. And the results will never be professional, nor will be security guaranteed.And talking about security... ever thought that free shops are hackers' favourites? Free open code allows them to know exactly where the software and the security fail. FOLIOserver shops have been developed by us from scratch with encrypted code, and they are only installed in our own servers, where they are perfectly safe.

Now, look at the cost of FOLIOserver shops, and compare. If your online project is serious, you will see it clearly.

Besides, thanks to our manuals and video tutorials, you will be uploading your products, hiring your payment gateways and your shipping service after only 20 minutes. In 15 days, you may have all your products online and be selling them.Everything explained clearly, everything easy, safe and with the guarantee of having someone to ask for advice when needed.

Your virtual shop is a sales catalogue. It must allow you to have banners displaying your products, launches, offers, etc, on the same page.

They must also be properly positioned in search engines submissions, so that all products and their descriptions are indexed by search engines.Our shops have tools for internal promotion with banners connecting with your products, and friendly URLs so that the info about all your products is indexed by search engines. Also, they automatically generate the sitemap to help the search engines go through and index the whole shop.

It is also advisable for you to advertise some banners in the media or to carry out some other type of actions to generate positioning. Ask us about this, we have solutions for all of this.

Have in mind your country's laws as far as commerce is concerned, as well as data protection, etc. All of this is normally managed online or through your legal advisor. Ask us about it.

Once your shop is open, you must take into account aspects such as security, the server's capacity, possible saturations, etc. You will need a good technical support allowing you to ask questions and to help you solve any problems.

Also, thanks to technical advances, there are new features allowing you to sell more and better. Always rely on a development team to guarantee continuity.

All our clients obtain continued technical assistance from us, both for small doubts and for technical requests, etc.

With us, you will never be alone.