How to Make an Ecommerce Website

Part 1: Launch Your Website

Step 1

Choose your website name

Step 2

Once you find your site’s name, the next step is to get Domain & Hosting. The domain is the name of your site (www.yoursite.com) and hosting puts your website on the internet.

Get Hosting & Domain

Step 3

Install Wordpress

WordPress is the tool, we’re going to use, to build our ecommerce website.
It lets you build your site easily, without any coding (or programming).

Part 2

Import Sample Site

1. Login to WordPress

To import the sample ecommerce site, you need to first login to your website (so that you can control your site)

2. Install Theme

Next install the ‘Astra’ theme in wordpress, which is going to allow you, to import the sample site.

3. Import the Demo

Finally, import the demo by going to ‘astra options’ > ‘install importer’ > import the ‘brand store’ demo, under ecommerce.

Part 3

Setup your Store

1. Remove sample products

To setup your store, first delete all of the sample products which were imported from the demo. Go to your dashboard > products > and delete all sample products.

2. Add your products

You can now add your own product by clicking ‘add new’ under products and then enter your product details.

3. Change currency

After adding your product, you can change the product price to ‘dollar’ by going to wocommerce > settings > and select your currency.

4. Setup payment method

Create Stripe Account

To let your customers to pay for your products you need to create a free account on ‘Stripe’. Stripe, allows you to receive payments directly to your bank account, when someone purchases, your product.

Create Free Account

Connect it with your website

To use your new instamojo account on your site, you need to connect your wordpress site to it. To connect it, just install the ‘Stripe for Woocommerce’ plugin on wordpress & enter the details from Stripe.

Results you will achieve at this point

1. Store is Ready:

Your Customers will now be able to place orders on your site, by paying online.

2. New Sale Notifications:

You’ll be notified, via email when someone places an order. If you have trouble receving emails, watch this video.

Part 4

Change the Look of Your Website

1. Editing Pages

To edit any page on your site, just go to that page & click ‘edit with elementor’. You can now edit the page visually, just by selecting & changing the text