Why is it so hard to find a good website to sell my t shirts on, there are so many companies out there but some of them want to take the idea make it there own and pay me a small design fee, no thanks. Yes there are companies that will sell my t shirt but they change way too much. The basic t shirt shouldn’t cost more than $20 but the print on demand websites want $20 themselves add profit and now the shirt is over priced so much that no one will buy it. Selling on the internet is hard enough never mind having an over priced item. I would like the shirts to be priced under $20 and still make a profit. So far I haven’t found anything good for selling my designs.

On a side note what if there was a way to get designers more involved in the process where they could make a profit on each sale and still have the shirt cost under $20 now that would be something interesting.

To get the cost under $20 we bought a gross of 100 shirts using a couple designs and sizes. I still have some work to do but at least the process has been started. I still think I’m going to use nopCommerce; all its features have hung in with every solution I’ve come across. Some of the plug-ins for WordPress sound good but I think that’s just marketing and that nopCommerce is still a better solution for selling. Although it would be nice to have an integrated blog with the store, my partner is very funny and willing to write his thoughts down and make the world laugh. Every time I’m with him I can’t help but laugh, his stories or comments on things in general have me laughing time and time again but that’s something for another time. The point is he is willing to write and I need to come up with a place for him to post to. More...

Best of the best web hosting ecommerce sites, the search begins.

OK! I'm decided I need to setup an ecommerce site for some products products I own resale rights to but I don't know enough about the ecommerce hosting sites to choose one. So I need to dig a little and maybe find a good ecommerce hosting provider, one that will not charge a lot for web hosting as I do not have a lot of money to spend and need every feature you can imagine, I'm a software developer I need it all.

Step one research I don't even know what web hosting companies are out there I have an idea, GoDaddy, 1and1... See I already ran out, what's that say. I need to do a Google search that's what.

But before I do that let me lay down my hosting requirements this way I won't go back and forth between a Linux host and a windows host. Actually never mind I like nopCommerce, they write good, easy to read code and not to mention they don't charge anything for it. No special payment provider component needed to make sales no nothing or at least as I write this they don't.

Alright enough with the blah blah, where's the best of the best web hosting ecommerce site list OK here goes.

Ahh, one thing I didn't think of when I started writing this is that I need to know what my payment provider is going to be.

I'll come back to this once I made a decision. 

If you can read this I never finished the article but meant to before releasing it. drop me a line I'll pick it back up.  I'm tired.

going to launch a new site (http://www.psdsale.com/) soon (with in 3 months) using nopCommerce

every time I look at nopCommerce it just amazes me every time.

I've started researching the various open source shopping carts. So far I've found that nopCommerce is by far the most feature rich open source shopping cart.  There's a couple contenders to consider but they aren't worth considering without the full payment features. So nopCommerce is what I'm going forward with.

The other open source shopping carts only give you a PayPal payment provider (the other payment providers are in there commercial version) I don't know about you but I don't have a customer that uses PayPal they all have merchant accounts and I need a solution that will work for any one of my customers most of them are small businesses with little to no computer knowledge, so the solution has to be as seamless as possible.

First let me give you a little background on what my customer's needs are and then I'll cover why I'm considering nopCommerce as the right solution for them.

I make it sound like I'm considering this for a long list of customer but I"m not I'm only considering it for one right now but my future customers will also benifit from my research.

My customer has a small beauty supply store and are considering selling products online but would like to the web site costs down to a minimum. There store is packed with products and by the looks of it every beauty product is there. I was very impressed with the various hair, skin and nail products they have. I didn't know so many variations existed.

There requirements are straight forward they want to create an online presence that will show case some of there products and at a later date they'll add a shopping cart. They want to add the shopping cart at a later date to try and save money on site startup costs. I'm hoping that nopCommerce will provide a solution that will allow my customer to just implement there e-commerce solution right from the start.

Now to nopCommerce. nopCommerce has all the features you'd expect from a shopping cart and so far has been easy to work with. 

Here's a partial list of the nopCommerce features you can get the full feature list here.

• Supports categories and manufacturers
• Categories can also be fully nested to any level desired (sub-categories)
• Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
• Products can be mapped to more than one category or manufacturer
• Multilingual support
• Multi currency support
• Measure weights, measure dimensions
• Real-time currency exchange rates (ECB)
• SSL support
• Export to XML
• Fully 100% customizable design using templates
• Configurable list of allowed countries
  • For registration
  • For billing
  • For shipping

Gotta go do the work thing.