Tips, hints and ideas for success selling online by eCorner

Well after 12 great years in our current office eCorner is moving.

From Monday 2nd July 2018 we will be located in the growing central business district (CBD) of Parramatta city. Parramatta has become the second CBD of Sydney and now the geographical, commercial and cultural capital of Western Sydney, Parramatta is the second largest CBD in Sydney and the 6th largest in the country. With an $14 billion dollar economy, Parramatta is a major provider of business and government services.

Our new office is very different to what we came from. The heritage listed 1860's stone cottage in Gladesville that we have called home for 12 years has been a great working environment and seen many changes in eCorner. But it is time to move on and our new office has been selected to better meet our needs as we develop over the next 10 years.

Based in the heart of Western Sydney

eCorner's new office is located at level 7, 91 Phillip Street, Parramatta overlooking the Parramatta River. Parramatta has become the center of Sydney as the city has grown out over the year.

Our new office is located close to public transport and is easily accessible from most locations around Sydney.

If you are contacting us then our phone numbers and email addresses will remain unchanged you can find those details on our Contact Us page.

If you are visiting then you can get to eCorner by car, train, bus and ferry. There is plenty of parking within minutes of our office and all at a reasonable cost.

Our office is just 30 minutes from Sydney Airport.

eCorner Pty Ltd

Level 7, 91 Phillip Street,
Parramatta,
NSW 2150
Australia

Please also note our new office phone number - 02 9893 1870 (our old number will continue to work if you get stuck)

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Is your business vulnerable?

Each stolen record costs retailers USD$172 on average in the event of a data breach, according to the latest Cost of Data Breach Study, the gold-standard benchmark conducted by the Ponemon Institute – and this figure is on the rise. Cyber security should therefore be front-and-centre for any business operating on the Internet, and we are regularly asked to advise on how to manage and mitigate the risks of operating online.

Selling directly from your WordPress site or blog has just become much easier

With eCorner Stores and the new ePages plugin for WordPress, you can easily turn your site into a secure, fully featured online shop.

When WordPress was introduced in 2003, it started out merely as a solution to create blogs. However, things have changed. WordPress has become an incredibly feature-rich content management system that caters to the most sophisticated needs of bloggers and website owners alike. Today, approximately 25 percent of all sites on the entire World Wide Web use WordPress.

While there are many eCommerce solutions out there for Wordpress, the management of security and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance have always been serious and complex issues to solve. This has led to thousands of security breaches on Wordpress sites.

By combining your Wordpress site with a secure, hosted online store from eCorner stores, you can take all of the stress around security away while still having all your products for sale directly from the online store. Additionally, you can access all the other great features of a hosted online store from eCorner, such as integrated eBay, Amazon and Facebook shop channels, advanced shipping and payment options and connections to your back office systems like Xero accounting.

Setting up your eCorner store is easy and connecting with Wordpress via the ePages plug-in only takes a couple of minutes – and there are no additional costs involved.

Don't have an eCorner store yet?

Click here for more information and to sign up for a free trial: https://www.ecorner.com.au/sell-online-now

Seemlessly present your products for sale on your WordPress site:

How does the ePages WordPress plugin work?

As soon as the plugin is installed, your products will be showcased on selected pages or on dedicated posts of your WordPress site. If a customer clicks on one of the products, an overlay window opens up with further details about the product – including price, product image and description as well as stock and delivery information, if available.

Customers can add products to a shopping basket. If they click on the basket icon, they see a summary of all the products they added as well as the delivery costs.

When customers click on the “Check out” button, a popup opens up with the order process of your ePages shop where they can complete their order.

To get a better idea of how the plugin works, you can try it out on our WordPress demo site.

How does the ePages WordPress plugin work for the merchant?

You simply have to install the free plugin and connect it to your ePages shop. After that, you can add products to certain pages or posts of your WordPress site by clicking the Add Shop button:

It is up to you if you want to show all of your products or only selected categories. This allows you to have full control over which products are available in your WordPress shop.

Besides that, you can decide if these elements should be displayed:

• A search field with which visitors can search for products
• A category selection
• The possibility to sort products by their name or price (ascending or descending)

Once an order is placed, you will be notified via email and can manage the order in your shop’s administration area – just like you are used to.

You can find detailed information about the setup in this PDF file.

The plugin has a variety of advantages for you:

• Easy integration: The setup is very simple and takes only a few minutes.
• No additional costs: The plugin is available for free for any WordPress site
• Proven back office: To manage your WordPress shop you can use the administration area of your eCorner store.
• High compatibility: The plugin works on any WordPress site and is compatible with most themes and frameworks.
• Security and legal aspects: The plugin and eCorner stores allow you to meet legal requirements, PCI compliance and offer an SSL-secured checkout process.

You want to connect your online shop to your WordPress site now? Then just follow these instructions.