Selling Online: No Shop Required

Thankfully, there are several solutions with which you can complement or completely substitute an online shop, still being able to successfully sell your products and manage everything that comes with it.

Method no. 1: selling via marketplaces

Nowadays selling your products via sites like the ecommerce giants Amazon and eBay is pretty easy. You just create an account, put up your merchandise according to the instructions, and if you let Amazon/eBay do the fulfillment and shipping, all you have to do is sit back and take care of managing your inventory. One of the main hurdles is that Amazon, eBay and other similar sites don’t integrate seamlessly into your accounting solution.

Method no. 3: setting up an online store

Before you start scratching your head thinking what is this all about, let us assure you that the online shops we are talking of here are not the ones that require you to be a software developer. Shopify, BigCommerce and Magento: these are all ecommerce solutions that let you build and customize an online store using a drag-and-drop website editor without any coding or custom designing and development.

Automating Magento with Xero

Another advantage of these types of online store builders is that they seamlessly integrate into your accounting software, saving you the money you would spend on an integration solution. Furthermore, you can not only customize your virtual shop to your liking, but using such a solution guarantees that you and your clients can do business in a completely safe online environment as well.