Don't worry if you can't fill it out completely on your own, though try to figure the number of products, products with options, and categories before we talk.

When completed, this allows us to give you an accurate price quote for your store.

It may be used in conjunction with the Website Planning Worksheet and the Website Design and Maintenance Agreement.

A substantial part of the cost of developing a store is in preparing the product photos. But, of course, they are often what motivate people to purchase.

Product Information and Format

We will need some typical product information (depending upon the complexity of your site).  These typical fields include the following:
SKU, Product Name, Product Description, Weight, Price, Picture File Name, Category, Subcategory, Related product SKUs for cross-selling, color/size option of SKU, other descriptive fields (such as ISBN for books), etc.
These will usually be fields in a spreadsheet or database.

Categories of Products

The larger the store, the more categories you'll need. Site menus and search engines use these categories to group products so shoppers can find them quickly.

We'll need a list of these from you. You'll also need to put the category and subcategory(ies) in fields in your database.

Shipping

Sales Tax

When you sell items online, some of your customers may owe taxes on their purchases. Whether you need to collect sales tax depends on where both you and your customers are located.

If your customers are in the same state as the physical location of your business, they owe sales tax on items they purchase from you. For instance, if you have a presence in Illinois, you'll need to collect sales tax for all sales made in Illinois. Even if a customer calls your California office and the merchandise ships from a fulfillment house in Michigan, you'll still be liable for the taxes.

Accepting Credit Cards Online

If you want to allow your customers to use a credit card, you will need a merchant account specifically for that purpose.  If you take credit cards directly now, you already have a merchant account. Most major credit card companies require that you have a separate merchant "gateway" account for use with online transactions.

Accounting and Inventory

Web Hosting

Due to the complexity of installing and hosting store-building software and relational databases, it is important that you accept our recommendations for Web hosting services. We charge for the additional time expended installing and configuring stores on Web hosting services other than our own.

Globalization

Once your store appears on the Web you will have a global business. You will get orders from other countries, since many countries are not able to purchase these items locally.