Sometimes, even though you’ve done your research you can end up with an eCommerce platform that either doesn’t quite work or falls short of what your customers are demanding. Thankfully, you aren’t stuck with one b2b platform forever; re-platforming is there for those moments when you feel like you need to change platform for the benefit of your business.

There are issues that come bundled in with re-platforming, though, including porting over customer and transaction data, brand images, customer experience, and re-organising your departments. However, these issues can easily be circumvented, especially with the b2b platform available from Netalogue.

When you tell people you occasionally work away they think it’s a treat – the casual onlooker may think staying in hotels sounds like good fun but when you are on the road regularly working away it really can get tedious. Once you’ve had your meetings the highlight of the trip is the journey home and stopping off at a service station for a snack  before getting home for a warm dinner.  Service station snacks never used to be synonymous with good food but with the advent of quality food outlets like M&S you can now look forward to a nice prawn sandwich to tide you over for that last 100 miles of the journey. Marks and Spencer has stood the test of time, they’ve had up ups and downs like all retailers but they’ve managed to retain their customers generation after generation and I never quite knew their secret.

Free ecommerce platforms don’t do what they say on the tin. In actuality, many “free” ecommerce platforms aren’t free at all, often coming bundled in with hidden costs, having a reliance on third-party software and developers, as well as providing limitations for your business. Integrating an ecommerce platform with internal systems is never an easy task. Even a bespoke, rigorously designed system can have quite a few teething issues, but these teething problems can quickly become the ecommerce equivalent of a double root-canal with free platforms.