Opening an online store
Many business processes were globally revised just a few years ago, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Shopping malls were closed, salespeople lost their jobs, store owners suffered losses, and customers could not afford to buy anything offline.
Then online stores became a real salvation. Due to the serious financial investments required in such a tense situation, not everyone was able to organize full-fledged online trade. They resorted to budget methods, opening web representations in the format of "Website + Price list in Excel + Phone number for ordering." Some conducted trade via social networks, and someone completely reoriented all customer flows to smartphones.
Opening an online store
In extreme situations, such vnpay database methods are treated with indulgence, but now it takes a lot of investment to open a full-fledged online store:
allocate funds for mandatory payments (this includes registering an individual entrepreneur/LLC, opening and maintaining a bank account, purchasing and servicing an online cash register);
invest in creating a high-quality website that will attract the attention of customers;
determine the cost of renting premises. Some goods cannot be stored in houses/apartments due to the required specific climatic conditions or due to their bulky dimensions;
save the amount for purchasing goods. The assortment decides a lot. You can buy a rare but expensive product, or choose a cheap but mass-produced one;
finances are needed to organize payment acceptance, order processing, packaging and delivery;
Allocate money for advertising the product.
A businessman with a large production will have to put aside some money, from which he will have to pay wages to employees.
There are no clear figures for the expected costs and there cannot be any. Everything depends on the entrepreneur's approach to business. Personal registration of an individual entrepreneur, for example, costs 800 rubles, but you can save money and register for free by submitting documents electronically. One businessman decides to rent a large warehouse in a specially designated guarded place for 10 thousand rubles per month, or you can move all the goods to a rented garage for 3 thousand rubles per month and store the products there at your own risk and peril.
It is possible to calculate how much on average you will have to spend on a particular procedure to implement your business on the Internet:
opening and maintaining a bank account costs approximately 500–600 rubles per month;
for the development of a separate website, programmers will ask from 15 thousand rubles and more;
web resource maintenance will cost approximately 3 thousand rubles per month;
for domain registration you need to set aside approximately 300 rubles, and this amount will be written off annually;
for the registration of an online cash register, specialists will take no less than 15 thousand rubles one-time, and then a subscription to the service w