WHY DEVELOP A CUSTOM ECOMMERCE STORE?

Options for choosing an off the shelf CMSs solutions like Magento, Shopify, OpenCart, or SalesForce, are plenty, so why would considering custom ecommerce development be better? Ecommerce Content Management Systems (CMS) tend to follow the one-size-fits-all model, making it extremely difficult and frustrating to extend to your custom specifications. This is due to the limited scalability of the technology, constraints in the integration with modern ERP and marketing tools, and many other factors. If your goal is to grow your eStore into a well known place for selling your good, our VAST commerce platform will give you all the flexibility you need without any of the constraints in the off the shelf products.

Our VAST platform has many advantages:

• Scalability and extensibility. Both concepts greatly affect a website’s performance. The first term implies that higher workloads can be handled, and extensibility means a wide range of customization opportunities. Both properties are usually better in the case with the custom ecommerce web development
• Customization is more easily implemented while working with custom-made websites
• Maintenance is better.  DevOps who improve the overall user experience, have a much wider set of tools at their disposal. To illustrate, if a problem is found in Magento, all users can do is wait for an update. In case they want to protect their data themselves, it is necessary to hire Magento developers, unlike when you have a custom ecommerce store. Then, for its maintenance, it is enough to hire, for example, a Node.js developer, which is much easier than finding a Magento developer. For the same reason, you decide on the frequency of the platform’s updates and what features and when to enroll. 
• Integration capabilities are broader. Take, for example, some ERP solutions that play a vital role in ecommerce. A website must integrate perfectly with supply or ERP solutions used to manage the stock, orders, purchasing, delivery, etc.
• Security is high, unlike the CMS solutions, because all the coding is in your hands, and you can make your website as secure as you want. It is different in the case with CMS sites when you’ll only rely on the Magento developers and hope that they will prevent all possible vulnerabilities and fix them as fast as possible. This is a double-edged sword since only you are responsible for the level of security of your custom ecommerce website. On the other hand, if a major vulnerability appears on the OpenCart or Magento platforms – all the hundreds of thousands of the shops built on that technologies are exposed to it at the same time and what is left is to take the control into your hands and quickly fix the issue with your own development team within constraints of that platforms or hope for the quick action of the Open Source CMS community. 
• The modular framework can easily be extended to build an ERP system, a PIM system, a CRM system, an OMS, a WMS, many other tightly coupled native sub-systems

Sterlite is a software development company with experience creating custom ecommerce websites from scratch and up to post-launch support and updates. If you need to build a new online shop platform or have any questions – feel free to reach us out via our Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to help you bring your business to new heights with robust technology solutions.