Online Store Builder

An ecommerce website is an online platform for buying and selling products, services, and content. It features product galleries, shopping carts, checkout systems, and backend functions for processing payments, shipping, customer support, and marketing. Essentially, it acts as a digital storefront that mirrors the experience of a physical store.

An online store gives your business a unique edge that no brick-and-mortar ever could — the ability to serve customers from around the world, 24/7/365. If you’re ready to open your doors online, here’s how to get up and selling in no time.

1. Pick your products:
   Think about what you want to sell online, and make sure you have the resources or inventory to list items — be it services or traditional products — for sale on your site.
2. Choose a plan:
   If you’re offering services, like yoga lessons or career coaching, check out our Premium plan. It lets you accept payments from customers who book services on your website. If you need to sell products, opt for the Ecommerce plan to get everything you need to power your online store.
3. Set up your online store:
   Our easy-to-customize store templates help you quickly set up your store, complete with product descriptions, prices, shipping and payment options. Just pick one to get started, or dive right into the store builder and type in your industry to start with a relevant template.
4. Pick a domain name:
   Your domain name is the address where your online store lives. Pick something that’s the same as, or similar to, your business name. This makes it easier for people to remember your website’s address and reinforces your brand.
5. Start selling online:
   This is the fun part! Sell your products and accept payments directly on your online store, or connect your site to popular marketplaces and social channels, like Amazon or Instagram, to sell in more places. Don’t worry, your inventory syncs across all your sales channels, so you can avoid overselling while tracking everything from your GoDaddy Online Store dashboard.
6. Market your business:
   Let people know about your business and what services or products you offer with built-in marketing tools. Create email campaigns, reply to social posts and track your online presence right from your GoDaddy Online Store dashboard. The more you show up online in all the places your customers shop, the more chances you get to turn online interactions into customers.

• Our Online Store Builder lets you set up your store for free, and only pay when you’re ready to start fulfilling orders. This means you can add all your content and products, set up pricing and shipping and make sure everything looks just right before you pay. When you’re ready to sell, simply upgrade from your free plan to our Ecommerce plan ($23.99/mo) to open your online store for business.
• Not interested in selling online? No problem. Check out all our website building plans to pick one that works for you.

Online Store is one of the many applications you’ll get through our Website Builder when you purchase the Ecommerce plan. Along with GoDaddy’s Email Marketing, awesome SEO, Online Bookkeeping, and SSL, your site will be equipped with all the tools you need to be successful to sell your products or services online.

With GoDaddy, you’ll find it’s easy to manage your entire online presence from just one dashboard. We offer everything you need to succeed online – whether you’re just starting off and need to search for a domain name or create a unique logo or you’re an established brand that can benefit from our robust Digital Marketing, we’re here to support you in your online journey.

You absolutely can, and you should. You’ll want to build a strong online presence so you can reach your customers wherever they are, and get them to go to your online store. You can link to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google and YouTube. Connecting all your social media tools gives your customers a memorable experience. They can follow you however they like, comment on your store and products, and easily find out where they can purchase your awesome products. So make sure you’re linking your new ecommerce website to your social media pages as well.

We’ve got you covered. You’re going to spend some time and hard work creating your ecommerce website and we want to help your website remain safe and secure. It’s important to note that no website is too small to get hacked. If you’re creating an online store you want to keep not only your website secure, but also provide security for your customers as they make purchases in your retail website. Your GoDaddy Online Store product is going to come already protected with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), so it won’t be an additional cost for you or your business to keep your website safe.

• If you’re thinking about selling a product or service all you’ll need to do is add your product or service to your online store, verify your payment method, and decide how you want to ship your products. Once you’ve done this you’ll be ready to sell your products or services. You will be able to easily add or remove things whenever you want to, and republish your site.
• If you change your mind about the design that you’ve selected, you can edit it whenever you’d like. You can change a section or page to your ecommerce website, change your photos, and update your style text. GoDaddy Online Store was created with the intent that you can make it yours; and alter it as often as you or your business needs change. Remember your GoDaddy Online Store will be mobile friendly, so whether you’re making changes to your site, or have a customer making a purchase on their mobile device, everyone will have a seamless mobile-optimized experience.