I am a Fashion Designer; it was my passion, so I did my study in this field. Due to responsibilities, I was not able to open a boutique or do a job. By managing time and work, I started doing my designing work from home. But still, somewhere inside me, I wanted to expand my work and own a boutique. The question is How to Sell Clothes Online? One of my customers suggested that I start with a virtual store if I cannot have a physical one. I asked her how to have a virtual apparel store; she gave me examples of many online stores like Amazon, Flipkart, Ajio, and many more. I went into the details to find how to build an online store. I came to know about eCommerce, eCommerce platforms, and themes.
eCommerce
eCommerce or electronic commerce is the action of buying and selling products or services through the internet. It includes electronic fund transfer, mobile banking, online transaction process, supply chain management, and many more. We can sell almost everything and anything everywhere.
Now I can sell anywhere sitting home without disturbing my schedule and other work. My customers have increased as there is no time or area limitation. My online apparel store is open 24*7 for my customers. I can provide comfortable money facilities to them as per their convenience through credit cards, debit cards, gateway like Paytm, Google Pay, or any other. Customers are happy as they get their product to their doorstep.
eCommerce Platforms
eCommerce platforms are the ones that build our online stores by providing coding or software in any programming language. There are many platforms available like WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, Ravendel, and many more. They may be headless, hosted, open-source, paid, or free. Each one has an exclusive feature one can choose according to one’s need and budget.
Magento is an open-source hosted platform written in PHP. Magento is a headless approach with seamless third-party integration. Magento is a powerful and tensile eCommerce platform that supports small businesses, medium businesses, and large industries. Open-source platforms are available to all, anyone can use the coding and customize its functionality according to their needs for an online store by either having the knowledge about the programming language or by hiring a developer.
I chose Magento as it is malleable and a strong platform and suitable for me as I am a beginner and have a small apparel store. After having an online apparel store on Magento, I got a vast market to sell my products with ease. Mobile phones are more comfortable nowadays. I can now build a mobile phone version for my apparel store through PWA.
There are numerous themes available on Magento, paid, and free. Easily customized and handled with attractive layouts and homepages. I chose Ves Fashion for my apparel store as it is simple to use and an awesome arrangement and style suiting my products.
Magento Themes
The look and style of our store depending on the theme. It’s the theme which makes our store look stylish, well organized and disruptive. These themes may be customizable in color, font, layouts, and many more things. They may be paid or free or charges may apply for updating or adding more features. The theme may be chosen according to one’s budget, products needed, and the style of the owner.
Ves Fashion – Responsive Multipurpose Magento 2.2.x & 1 Theme
Ves fashion is a minimal, simple, and easy-to-use theme, which is just fantastic for the beginner and owner of a small business like mine. It is a paid theme costing $84. It is a fully responsive multipurpose theme of Magento.
It is completely designed in black and white; the great combination of colors, textures, and logical arrangement makes my apparel online store look more elegant, glamor, luxurious, attractive, and soothe. The black and white background makes the product look fantastic, and the display is just perfect. It is completely suitable for Fashion stores like mine, Mobile Shop, Computer Store, Hightech Store, Gift Shop, Electronics shop, etc.
It has many fascinating features, including a fast check-out process, fast loading, fully responsive, attractive image slider, quick view product, off-canvas menu, fast layered navigation,touch-optimized carousel, and many others.
Love Fashion – Responsive Magento 2 Store Theme
Love Fashion is a fully responsive Magento theme that has 4+ unique homepage layouts. It is highly customizable and consists of multi-header and layout styles. A powerful admin panel and plenty of options for the setting. It is a paid theme that costs $84 with additional charges. Love Fashion is relevant for online fashion stores, clothing stores, apparel, mall shops, and any Magento store and all kinds of business and sells any items. The stunning theme is designed with a trendy style clear layout and supports other colors like Green, Orange, Violet, and Blue.
Love Fashion supports two layouts: Full-width layout and Left Sidebar layout. Six different types of product profiles to choose from and many agile features such as homepage slideshow, robust mega menu, ajax cart, ajax layer navigation, social box, up-sell, and related products slider more the list.
Facon – Fashion Responsive Magento 2 Theme
Facon is a multicolor, multi-layout, fully responsive Magento theme. Facon is all about fashion, which sells women’s fashion, men’s fashion, high fashion, and accessories. There is plenty of white space kept putting a focus on the best content one has. Cms blocks and white space separate Magento extensions such as Banner Slider and Tab Category Slider, and Recent Products Slider. The nice icons display Quickview on each product on the category page and homepage.
Using Quickview, the customers can view detailed information about the product and purchase it at the same time if they like. With Tab Category Slider, one can choose the shown product of each category. Banner Slider is capable of displaying a set number of banners. The responsive mobile theme looks elegant on all smaller devices: menu, language, currency, top links are collapsed. With pretty titles on the Product Page, upsell and related products are displayed. Customers can also put comments and feedback through blogs, testimonials, posts, and comments to advertise the store. Links, information about your store, payment method are placed on the Footers.
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