Before starting a webshop, clients often ask us “How to start a webshop?” and what legal obligations must be met in order to register a webshop for their company or craft.
To successfully open a webshop, you need to complete 7 steps that prepare you for creating a webshop. Webshops used to take months or even years to create. Today, with the help of technology and good preparation, we can create one in just a few days.
The first and most important thing to start a webshop is to complete the mandatory registration of a business entity, or activity. This means that the first step in starting an online store is to register a craft or company, where you must also enter information society services in the register of activities, in addition to your main activity. The activity that is required is called Retail sales via mail order and the Internet.
The conditions for opening a craft are prescribed by the Craft Act, and you can establish a craft through the e-Craft service or by visiting the competent state administration office in the county. A company is registered according to the Companies Act, and you can significantly shorten the process of establishing a company if you decide to use the services of the HITRO.HR entrepreneurial service. If you already have a company, then you need to register a company for the activities required for conducting online shopping in addition to the activity you are engaged in.
7 steps to prepare for creating a webshop 1. How many products do you plan to have in the webshop? It is possible to fill the webshop with an initial 10 products and then fill the rest of the products yourself after training. If you don’t have time, we can certainly fill the entire webshop. A good way to prepare a product list is to export the list from your accounting program. For example, a store has a product database in an accounting program from which we can extract all products with prices and codes into an Excel or CSV table. 2. What types of payment methods do you want to have on the webshop? There are several options, but the most commonly chosen methods are: Card payment (one-time, in installments), payment to account, PayPal, payment on delivery. Fiscalization is required for card payments. We recommend that you use an accounting program that has the ability to connect to the WordPress cms system and that has integrated fiscalization. For the card payment system, we recommend CorvusPay, through which you can arrange cards in selected banks. Accounting programs that can be integrated into the WooCommerce system and have fiscalization are eRacuni or SOLO.
3. Which delivery service will you choose? ***Inform yourself with each delivery service about the prices of package delivery for you.
***The prices of package delivery services depend on the contract and agreement with individual webshops and depend on the number of packages sent monthly.
4. Product photos Do your products have photos? Professional photos sell products by themselves. This is one of the most important factors. In our offer, we offer professional product photography. But if you want to submit the photos yourself, it is important that they are at least 1000×1000 px in size.
5. VAT Is your company in the VAT system? If so, decide whether you want your prices to be displayed with or without already calculated VAT. You can enter a price with VAT and the system will automatically display the unit price and the amount of VAT.
6. Product description Prepare a short and long product description. In the short description, try to write 1 or 2 sentences about the product. In the long description, put as much descriptive text as possible for that product. For example, product composition, maintenance or warnings related to that product. You can write this text in bullet points because we offer text writing and proofreading.
7. Webshop SEO In order for your webshop to generate sales, it is very important that each product has good SEO. What does SEO mean? SEO – Search Engine Optimization – optimization for search engines. Through this system, we can insert a keyword and description into each product. Therefore, your last step is to create a list of keywords and short descriptions along with the list of your products.
All of this may seem like a lot of work to you, but it is certainly more work when you open a physical store. The advantage of a virtual store is that once everything is set up, you no longer need to pay for additional maintenance.
WEB STORE MAINTENANCE SERVICE – by arrangement and as needed (price 370 kn / h).
Web store maintenance is not necessary, it depends on your needs. The security and existence of the web store itself is guaranteed with our hosting, so there is no need to pay for additional maintenance. Web store maintenance is taken care of if you do not have time to change the text or image on the page. As part of the web store, you receive online training with which you can later independently change the content of the web store.
To make it easier and faster for you to prepare for opening a webshop, contact us at info@design.com.hr.
Our web store development offer includes: We create and compile content for your web store quickly and easily We proofread existing content We professionally photograph your products.