Thanks Tony this is very interesting must have a look at it
Gerry
On 22 Sep 2016, at 22:10, Tony Murray <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Gerry
Check out Shopify – it is a pretty good eCommerce solution and is cheap.
It is light (it lives in the cloud so no need for expensive hosting or
maintenance), and the payment gateway options are varied. You won’t have to
go to a typical hosting company like BlackNight to host your solution; the
whole Shopify solution will live on the Shopify platform.
For someone who knows what they are doing (i.e. an eCommerce developer), it
can be straight forward to build quality solutions based on the utilisation
of predefined Shopify modules. This means the level of customisation to
personalise etc is not complex; you get the functional framework out of the
box on which you can hang your branding.
In relation to a percentage of sales, the payment gateway (things like Realex
etc) typically take a cut of each transaction – it is business after all and
you are paying to use their service. A web or eCommerce developer typically
would not take a cut of sales; they’d generally ask for an initial
development fee, and an ongoing maintenance/support deal if that is what you
want. It is generally quite transparent as the concept of hiring people to
construct eCommerce solutions is very mature nowadays. The payment gateway
engagement will be clear too; they are up front about what percentage of each
transaction they’ll want. Typically, eCommerce providers will ask you to
handle the engagement with the payment gateway provider (in effect
establishing you as the merchant), so the moving parts are somewhat discrete
in terms of management.
Another option of course is for your friend to build his own ecommerce
solution using shopify. It is designed to be straight forward enough (not
that I have ever attempted it!). Regardless though, he will need to probably
implement a payment gateway to process his financials, unless he wants to
build his own… which is completely unrealistic.
Best wishes
Tony
From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of GERARD SHANAHAN
Sent: Thursday 22 September 2016 21:51
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: blackknight web developers
Hi Dave,
You mentioned previously that you had dealt with black knight web services
and found them good. A friend of mine is interested in setting up a retail
website and has been shopping around and has got ridiculous prices from the
guy who thinks he knows it all to the professionals who want 10k. I would
imagine that the main content being a retail website is the fact that there
will have to be a linked catalogue of price listts in relation to products, a
search engine marker for the website so that it will appear in optimium
searches by consumers and a payment system. If you know of any individuals
who have experienced a similar situation I'd be grateful for any info. Some
of the web developers who offer to provide a billing system actually want a
percentage for providing the billing system from the turnover, I supose this
is expected but one would have thought an annual service fee would have been
more to the point, although they would have lost out in the event that the
sales got quite big.
regards
Gerry
----- Original Message -----
From: David Nason
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 11:00 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Iphone query
Hi Gerard,
Yes there is indeed.
1. Open control centre by placing VoiceOver focus on the status bar at the
top of the screen, then swiping up with three fingers.
2. Select the flashlight / torch icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
On 13 Sep 2016, at 22:13, Gerard Shanahan <gershan@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi friends,
Does anyone know how to turn on the torch on the iphone or is there a torch
on the iphone?
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