e-Trade Pro vs. Bespoke Solution
There are many factors that need to be considered when choosing the right ecommerce solution for your business; Price, Speed of Deployment, Features and Functions etc. Finding the right balance is a difficult job and more often than not, a business owner loses out in some areas to gain in others. The question is, how much is forfeited?
Bespoke solutions seem the obvious choice at first with all apparent business requirements being met... However, it more often than not transpires to be the wrong choice as the technological masterpiece (ecommerce solution) fast dissipates into an obsolete money-pit and initial costs are never re-cooperated.
Below are a few considerations when choosing between ecommerce software and a bespoke solution.
Fast Start
e-Trade Pro ecommerce software enables the user to setup and start doing business within minutes. Bespoke solutions require much more time to launch.
Stability
e-Trade Pro ecommerce software is a stable and robust platform that has been tested over years by thousands of users. A bespoke solution will take a great deal of precious resource to test and debug... a great deal indeed!
Feature-Rich
e-Trade Pro ecommerce software is massively feature-rich due to the fact it has to satisfy thousands of users with varying business demands. A bespoke solution should fit a specific business, only problem being, businesses change continuously, meaning the bespoke solution has to change continuously.
Continually Updated
As well as being rich in features, e-Trade Pro ecommerce software is continually updated in line with all its users’ requirements. This means whilst e-Trade Pro may not do 100% of what you want right now, chances are it will do in the future.
The Trough of Disillusionment:
The common, and unfortunate, situation that customers find themselves
in after choosing a bespoke ecommerce solution and suffering from a diminishing user and customer satisfaction.
Continually Enhanced
e-Trade Pro ecommerce software has thousands of users submitting requests and ideas for enhancements which can be incorporated for the benefit of all users in future releases. Bespoke solutions have only a limited input.
Well Supported
e-Trade Pro ecommerce software is supported by a whole team of designers and developers with intricate knowledge of the software. Bespoke solutions tend to be understood by very few, and are prone to support issues if staff leave your development company.
Cost-Effective
e-Trade Pro ecommerce software costs very little in comparison to a bespoke solution. You use it so long as it is useful to you. A bespoke solution will cost a great deal more, tie you in to longer payment terms for
development that is not proven and will never offer the flexibility available from e-Trade Pro.
Average UK Company eCommerce Investment Cycle:
The graph above illustrates the investment cycles of bespoke and on-demand ecommerce solutions.
On-demand requires a low monthly on-going investment. Bespoke requires bi/tri annual capital investment as the solution becomes obsolete to the point of total re-build.
Trusted
Software, such as e-Trade Pro ecommerce software requires a development company like G-Forces to invest time and effort in to. This ensures that a company that can produce a piece of software has commitment, stability and support necessary to deliver on its promises.