Free software
Magento is a free open source e-commerce platform or call it a shopping cart, a mighty one. It can be easily configured to do most of what a printing storefront needs to do. Most of it comes out of the box, some of it will be from free extensions, some from third party services.
Free hosting
Amazon Web Services is a hugely popular hosting platform. They have a free hosting offer for new customers. It is not the most powerful hosting set up, but it will be more than enough for a not so busy website. You can always upgrade later.
Free set up
We will set everything up for you for free if you already have an existing storefront or web-to-print website and look for alternatives.
Free themes
Magento has thousands of free and commercial themes all over the Internet. There should be one you like already.
This service includes:
- Launch a free Magento AMI
- Configure the instance
- Apply for limit increases and spam DB removals
- Create sample products
- Do essential Magento configuration
- Install several extensions specific to a printing storefront
- Hand over logins, passwords and links to your brand new online storefront
This service does NOT include:
- Custom theme installation
- Installation and configuration of third party extensions
- Continuous support
- Training
Optional Web-to-Print
Web-to-Print can be installed and configured on your storefront if you open a printer account with ZetaPrints. It will only work with the default theme, unless you take care of modifications to your custom theme or ask someone to do it for you. We will install and configure our web-to-print plugin in your storefront if you want.
AWS account required
You will need to sign up to AWS service and provide us with the account details. One of our engineers will contact you with instructions on setting up your domain name for the store. It will need to be a temporary domain name pointing at the IP address assigned to you by AWS. E.g. if your main website is www.example.com you can create a sub-domain test.example.com. It should not cost you anything either.
Once the temporary domain name is created we will complete the installation and hand over the access details to you.
Your storefront will be fully operational from that moment on. Configure it, test, get ready for the switchover and ditch that outdated hosting you have been paying $200 a month for.
