This is What Makes Odoo A Great E-commerce Platform

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This is What Makes Odoo A Great E-commerce
Platform
The move to the internet happened years ago. We
have come a long way from performing simple
tasks like sending electronic email to having
complex e-commerce stores for everything that we
could possibly need. Electronic stores range
from small niche stores to large ones that sell
everything. It is a market that is ever
expanding. If you
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• are looking to get into the e-commerce business,
  there is always space. However, that does not
  mean that it doesnt require effort. You have to
  take a lot of crucial steps before you can have
  an online store up and running.
• Once you decide what products you want to sell,
  how much product customization you want to
  offer, your business strategy and your team, the
  last very important task left to do the
  actual building of that store. And building an
  online store is no easy task. First, you have to
  figure out what platform you want to build your
  e-commerce store on, and there are plenty of
  great options for that, like Magento, Odoo,
  Shopify, and WooCommerce. You have to figure out
  your needs and compare them with the features
  these platforms are offering and then based on
  the comparison you will need to select one.
• Out of all of these, Odoo is easily one of the
  best. But why is it the best? What makes it
  stand out? Well, here are a few things
• Customizable for various devices
• First things first the ease of an e-commerce
  store is that your customers can log on from any
  and all devices they have. For this, it is
  important that the user experience remains
  consistent on all devices of various screen
  sizes. With Odoo, that is possible. So, your
  customer can switch over to a tablet from a
  laptop, or a smartphone and they will see the same

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• store, with the same functionality. A good user
  interface is what keeps the customer coming back
  to a particular web store.
• Theme store
• The theme of your store is an important part of
  the user interface. A hard to navigate or a web
  page which is hard on eyes is off-putting. Odoo
  has a palette of themes for you to choose from.
  A good theme will help lead your customers to
  browse your store more often, look at products in
  more detail than just the initial page and
  spending more time on the store. A user
  interface that highlights your product is a user
  interface worth investing in. Moreover, there are
  many Odoo customization companies which can
  create personalized Odoo themes, plugins or
  extensions, and more for your Odoo e-store.
• An assortment of apps
• Odoo apps make for great add-ons to your online
  store. There are apps that you can add to
  enhance your store, like an invoice template or
  an app that helps you with search engine
  optimization, or even one that gives you
  additional templates for the sales order. These
  plugins or extensions help you get the most out
  from your Odoo platform.

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• Product Customization
• No matter what products you are selling, if you
  wish to give various options in it of size or
  color or material etc. you can easily do that
  with an Odoo based store. It is a great way to
  retain your customers and decrease cart
  abandonment. Customers will have choices and
  catering to those choices will go a long way for
  your store.
• Conversion tools
• Odoo has a bunch of tools that help convert the
  customers visit, to sale. Depending on what
  someone puts in their cart or is frequently
  looking at, Odoo enables you to offer coupon
  codes or send email reminders. It also helps you
  upsell or cross-sell a product, which means it
  offers accessories or complementary products to
  the ones that a customer puts in the cart.
• Payment options
• Odoo gives you multiple payment options for your
  web store. You can enable the ones you want.
  When you provide your customers with multiple
  ways to pay, they are likely to end up buying
  the product because of the convenience factor
  alone.

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• Shipping options
• With Odoo, you get a lot of shipping options.
  Connect your store with the ones you want, to
  ship your product easier. When people see
  popular shipping partners on a store, they tend
  to trust that store more with handling the
  product they order. Therefore, the more options
  your store has, the more customers you will have
  coming back to your store.
• So, there you have it! Now, these were the
  benefits of using the Odoo platform for your
  store. But thats not the end of your e-commerce
  journey. The bigger task again is to use that
  platform to actually build the store and then to
  add the necessary extensions in order to create
  streamlined business processes. However, what
  makes this slightly better is that you can
  outsource this. You dont have to suddenly become
  a developer to get this done. Find the right
  Odoo development company and give them this
  task. Just like that, your e-commerce store will
  be ready!
• Have any questions regarding Odoo or any
  E-commerce platform? Feel free to comment with
  your question and we will try to answer the same
  to the best of our knowledge.

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