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Step By Step Guides for Booksellers
Step By Step Guides for Booksellers
How much you need e-commerce will depend on the size of your business (book trade business with publishers,
distributors and wholesalers for books and related products). The important factors to consider are the number
of transactions which are suitable for e-commerce and the amount of investment you are prepared to make.
Step 1:
To decide your need for e-commerce take a look at the following table which shows the number of
transactions (e.g. order lines or invoice lines) processed in your business in a full year, broken down
into months and working days (assuming a 6 day week).
| Order Lines/Invoice Lines Per Year |
| 500 |
41.66 |
1.60 |
None |
| 1,000 |
83.33 |
3.20 |
Low |
| 5,000 |
416.66 |
16.02 |
Low |
| 20,000 |
1666.66 |
64.10 |
Medium |
| 100,000 |
8333.33 |
320.51 |
Medium |
| 500,000 |
41666.66 |
1602.56 |
High |
|
Decide whether your need for e-commerce is low, medium or high.
Step 2:
Now consider your business turnover in respect of products sourced from book trade suppliers
(not sales of cards, pens, stationery etc.)
| £50,000 - £200,000 |
Level 1 |
| £200,000 - £500,000 |
Level 2 |
| Over £500,000 |
Level 3 |
|
Step 3:
By now you will have decided your need for e-commerce as low, medium or high and your turnover
as level 1, 2 or 3. Use this information in the table below to click on the e-commerce code, which
will be used to recommend the choice of services appropriate for your business.
| Business Level |
Low |
Medium |
High |
| Level 1 |
A |
B |
|
| Level 2 |
C |
D |
E |
| Level 3 |
|
F |
G |
|
There are two results pages, divided into codes: a to c, d to g
