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Shopify Cloud Based E-commerce Solution

How would you like to be able to reach all of your customers with one simple, easy to use platform whether they are shopping online, on mobile devices or in person.  In order for your business to be successful and for you to take it onto the next level it is imperative that you have the ability to sell your products in as many different ways as possible whilst being able to keep it simple and cost effective.

This is exactly what Shopify was designed for as a tool to help you grow your business by simply adding different sales channels which give you as the business owner upto the minute performance reports which allow you to monitor which channels are performing better than others.

Shopify is designed to do all of the above whilst allowing you to easily synch orders, products and customers across all of your sales channels.  Once you have implemented and setup Shopify you will be able to completely customise your store with ease, from it’s domain name, content, layout and colours.  If you are non technical then there is no need to panic as there are over 100 professional store templates available that can be implemented in minutes.

This awesome software will also allow you to accept orders in seconds and will notify you by email or mobile as soon as a new order comes in – this means you are kept upto date no matter where you are.  If you want to take it up a notch you are then able to fulfil the orders with one simple click which means your order management is seamless.

Shopify will take the hassle away from ecommerce and is great for beginners and experts alike.  It includes a website builder and full featured blog functionality if required. It is completely search engine optimised and comes with global tax and currency support and includes 70+ international payment gateways.

This cloud based ecommerce solution will allow you to start selling online quickly and easy with very little effort required.  It is perfect for business taking their very first steps into the world of online trading and integrates with a large range of service providers including of course Xero.

We here at A&C Chartered Accountants are well positioned to help you with the setup of your store and it’s ongoing integration with your Xero account.  We will help you with enabling the setup of processing a sale through to taking a payment and tracking all of the income.

Just by reading through the above information you can hopefully start to see exactly how by using Shopify and Xero it allows you to concentrate and focus fully on more client facing work, which will also remove the hassles that come with the administration side of the business.

If you would like to learn more about Shopify, what it has to offer and the integration abilities we would love for you to contact our cloud based support team on 0161 962 1855 for a free and informal chat with a member of our team.

xero partners with spotify
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XERO partners with Shopify strengthening the relationship of 150,000+ merchants

Xero (@Xero) announced today that it is partnering with Shopify (@Shopify), an industry leading commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at their retail location, and everywhere in between. The exciting new dual platform integration is expected to go live later on this year (2015).

With more and more businesses turning to Shopify as a true, powerful and robust, yet intuitive and simple e-commerce platform it’s perfect timing for XERO to announce their seamless cloud accounting integration. Here is the official statement from Xero relating to their timely and much anticipated big step that’s just been waiting to happen: Shopify partners with Xero

If you’re not familiar with Shopify (helped massively by US entrepreneur Tim Ferriss of 4 Hour Work Week fame) it is a platform that allows any one to sell online regardless of technical skill. Shopify provides everything you made need to sell online anywhere and trusted by over 150,000 business owners. Shopify offers a professional online storefront, a payment solution to accept credit cards, a point of sale system to power retail sales and a card reader to process credit card transactions through a mobile phone.

“The Start-up’s Secret Weapon: Contests” or “How to Turn $100K into $12,000,000”

– Tim Ferriss,

Read here on the 4 Hour Work Week blog the background about Shopify and it’s inception, and how it’s helped so many entrepreneurs succeed across the globe.

The partnership between the two technological giants now allows Shopify merchants to seamlessly track the impact of sales on their business financials, frees up time spent on manual data entry, and minimises the frustrations created by working with two separate systems.

Here at A&C Chartered Accountants we believe the future of accounting truly lies in cloud accounting. Not only that, we are very excited to see so many technologically advanced small to medium sized businesses starting out, making use of both our cloud accounting services, but also of so many fantastic services such as Spotify. 5 years or so ago, when such services didn’t exist, people’s life choices to go into business for themselves were restricted by cost and know how.

We’re extremely proud to be at the cutting edge of cloud apps and software integration and you can read more about our holistic integrations here: partner services and partner apps.

To learn more about our ethos and motivation to create something new and exciting with A&C Chartered Accountants, have a look at our article “Take A Walk In The Cloud“…