Taking Your School Store Online

Taking Your School Store Online
September 30, 2011
WBEA Fall Convention Considerations:
Student run or
Hired out Considerations:
Cost
Ease of editing
Merchandise account Thunderzone Manager Positions:
General Manager
Financial Manager
Promotions Manager
Merchandise Manager
Web Master (created for online sales) Compared:
Go Daddy
Quickbooks POS (intuit) Quickbooks POS
Integrates with Quickbooks POS and Financial
Manage inventory, customers and sales
Includes POS v8.0 upgraded
$3,188 plus annual subscription
Must use Quickbook Merchant Service Account $79/month Go Daddy Online Shopping Cart:
Free website builder and hosting
Sales reports
Shipping integrated with UPS
Quickbooks integration
No percentage of sales fee
Works with PayPal Chose Go Daddy Deluxe Edition
100 product catalog
1 GB disk space
50 GB bandwidth
$350 per year - shopping cart
$10 per year - domain name
$30 per year - SSL certificate Sell an addtional 10 sweatshirts this year to cover cost ($33 each)
Teaches ecommerce skills $2,044 sales first year open. PayPal Merchant Account
Buyers don't need PayPal
All major credit cards accepted
No setup charge or monthly fee
Transaction fee 2.9% of sale + $0.30 Requirements:
Have school email account for store
Had to set up seperate bank account
Figure out shipping
Decide categories and products offered
Define photo guidelines Frustrations (first year):
All text editing on shopping cart is HTML code
Defining phote guidelines
Renewal - go daddy couldn't process checking account info needed a credit card www.seymourthunderzone.com Sample Pages