We are lucky to already have a web developer on board for this project (me ), but if we didn’t have this experience in house, then we would need to look elsewhere. Choosing a web developer will depend quite heavily on your budget, expectations and the scale of your operation.
Once you know what your [...]
If you are building your own eCommerce site, then very early on, you will make a decision on the technology that will make the basis of your site.
Your first decision is to determine if you wish to develop your own system from scratch, or do you want to use readily available open source software and [...]
In the long terms will we stay with HSBC? I doubt it unless our business grows drastically to over £1 million. The major problems I had with HSBC are that unless you are a sizable business they really don’t care and are faceless in communicating with their customers. When you need something from them you have a long drawn out process and no ability for them to be flexible. Business colleagues who are running large turnover businesses can’t speak highly enough of HSBC as a personal bank manager is appointed.
We have always used our own software for our ecommerce sites from the beginning. Since then the system has been added to and modified as and when required to add or improve functions on a very ad hoc basis. We had been planning various upgrades to the system in order to improve it’s functionality and [...]