A small targeted adwords campaign (costing me £3 in clicks) made sure that I drove a bit of traffic to my new URLs ( ALL the site URLs have been changed to text URLs. I am still fearful of this as SEO efforts will be temporarily effected by this change)

Support was lightning fast. Being in customer support for the last 2 years, its nice to remember what it is like to be the other side of the fold.

I also created a new google sitemap pronto and changed all the links to individual products in the blog associated with the site. Its only a hobby site targeted at a niche market, but I feel absolved for investing the money into the site this week.

Cube 4 at a minimum (keeping the copyright notices) ~ £78 with the VAT added (subject to exchange rate as the price is quoted in dollars)

Your website needs to be secure, so with a £14 SSL certificate from Trusico (£12 plus VAT) the whole e-commerce website costs you £92…

This means you have £8 left to put towards your hosting, the cheapest (and most reliable) I have found in the UK is OxyUK, at 99p a month, the very basics you need. If you need more then I would pay no more than £5 per month for hosting and emails.

Once your SSL cert is installed (usually with help from your host) you can install cube pretty easily as well as..

- Google Checkout
- PayPal Payments Pro

The two designs they have for you are basic, but enough to get you by in your early stages of e-commerce. You can have a professionally designed skin once you know your brilliant idea makes money. Don’t think setting up an e-commerce store can cost the earth or cause you trouble…

You can get a 14 day trial with cube 4 and still FREE access to cube 3 (and the upgrading is almost seamless I tell you).

If you want to know what they get up too, visit the CubeCart Development Blog