Having been out of the office for a couple of days I got back to some good news - my goods have been delivered to the agent in China and so they are ready to be shipped (only three and a half months after I placed the order!!)
So now my attention has to turn to making sure I can sell the stuff when it arrives. I have been developing the site over the last month or so using a 3rd party hosting solution for e-commerce - again to keep costs to a minimum. I am starting to get a bit frustrated with the e-commerce solution as they appear to have launched the product to market whilst still being in the midst of testing and developing it. I have already provided at least 10 major feature developments that are required and although they are developing these it all takes time and so far they haven't committed to when they will all be fully functioning, which makes it hard to plan when my shop will be fully functioning. Some of the features are cosmetic and frustrating e.g. the ability to add additional pictures for products and some are going to make it harder to process the orders e.g. the Order tracking functionality.
I am working on work-arounds now so that if all of these functions haven't been fixed in time I will still be able to open the shop for orders on 1 October. Fingers crossed though it will all be up and working which will make my life much easier!
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