Upgrade Your Website With an Online Store in 5 Minutes

If you’ve taken your business online, you already know the dilemma: You want to sell your products, but with a traditional website or blog it isn’t easy to do, and stores often come off looking unprofessional and cheap. You can explore professional e-commerce systems, but these can be expensive and complicated – especially if you only have a handful of products to manage.

Here’s a better solution. SimpleStore for Intuit Websites has been upgraded and enhanced to let you add a professional store and shopping system to your existing website. Here’s how you can set up your own professional-looking shopping system on your site with just five minutes of work.

A Tour of Intuit SimpleStore

In a nutshell, SimpleStore lets you builds a store within a website. If you have less than 100 products, it’s a perfect solution, letting you add categories that shoppers can browse through and search so customers can easily find what they want. SimpleStore connects to Intuit Web Payment also, giving shoppers an easy one-page checkout.

Setting Up Products

Setting up products couldn’t be simpler, using SImpleStore’s web-based setup tool (see below).

SimpleStore has all of the most common and popular options you’d want for managing products, including the ability to set product attributes like size and color.  You can even set a different prices for each attribute (like if you want to charge more for the XL size t-shirt). With attributes, you can effectively sell far more than 100 products, since only base products count toward the 100 product limit.

Adding SimpleStore to Your Intuit Website

SimpleStore works best on a page by itself – your new Store page. To set it up, in the website editor, simply create a new page, and then drop SimpleStore onto it (see the highlighted area above).  You can then adjust the position and size of the store to suit your design.

Your store will automatically become part of your website navbar.

Taking Payments

Finally, don’t forget to signup for Intuit Web Payment, described in this blog post, in order to get a real merchant account and give your users a professional checkout experience.