Important advice for those who need a webshop for their pet shop. Get a purpose-built online shop for you if you sell products for animals.
With Shoporama, you have two options: pay a fixed amount each month or pay a percentage of your turnover. You can settle for less than $37 a day for your online store.
There are a few things that need to be in place before you can connect a webshop to your pet shop. If you have any challenges with this, we're happy to help.
You need an acquiring agreement to accept payments online. This is to secure your customers' payments. We've created a guide to walk you through it.
Read more hereIf you have a pet shop, you probably already have a domain. You can either choose to put it on your domain or on a subdomain, so your shop is located at the address shop.knudsens-dyrehandel.dk. Read our guide on domains here
Read more hereYou can choose from several different designs. We already have a beautiful template ready for a pet shop. You can get it for free to use on Shoporama. Click on the link here to see it.
See the pet shop template hereYou need some kind of shipping agreement or solution. But there is also a solution to get started shipping your pet supplies quickly.
Read here how to get started with shippingIf you have a pet shop, a webshop is a great way to increase sales. In this article, you'll learn the most important things about starting and running an online shop for a pet store.
In order to market your pet shop, there are a few things that are important for your online shop to do. These include offering in-store pickup, having a blog where you can describe new products or how to use a product. In a blog post about how to use scissors to cut your dog's nails, for example, it's handy that you can link to relevant products in the blog post.
These are things to consider when starting a pet shop online store and here you can read about some of these things and why Shoporama is a good choice when choosing an online store.
Some products customers use over and over again. For example, treats, rodent bedding, poop bags, dog food, etc. It can be a great idea to offer a stepped discount on such items. So that the price could be like this:
Quantity | Price per item |
---|---|
1 | 49,00 |
2-5 | 39,00 |
over 5 pieces | 32,00 |
It's a great way to increase your sales and of course you can do this in your Shoporama online store.
If a customer adds dog treats to their basket, it would be silly to suggest that they buy hay for their rabbit afterwards. In Shoporama, you can easily add items that are marked as being in the dog or rabbit category.
You can also easily offer to buy items together. You might suggest buying a leash together with a collar. Or to feed together with a feeding bowl.
Pet owners will need equipment for their pets for as long as the animal lives. This means there's a good chance of getting them as a customer again and again. In Shoporama, you can easily create a customer club where they earn points that they can use to shop for a second time. You specify how many points they earn for each item and the rules for using these points.
A customer club is especially useful for a pet shop webshop as it increases the loyalty of your customers.
We really want to know what others think about a product before we give it to our pets. That's why it's handy to have reviews on your products. In Shoporama, you can send out an automatic email that allows the customer to review the products they have purchased. Both with a number of stars and a written review.
This has a great effect. The stars provide a quick overview and the written reviews help your webshop to be found in search engines.
People use your search engine to find products. But you don't always call things the same thing. For example, if you have created all your dog leashes with the name "dog leash" and your users search for "dog leash", the product won't come up. But in Shoporama you can see that people have searched for "dog leash" and you can link that search to your "dog leash" products. In this way, you will slowly improve your search function so that your online store gets better and better.
Seeing what people search for can also help you bring new products or categories to your pet store. For example, if a lot of people search for "fur care" and you don't have that type of product in your webshop, it's worth adding to your range.
In Shoporama, you can create animal encyclopedias of, for example, all cat breeds or dog breeds. You can also create an encyclopedia of the most common dog diseases and how to treat them. Or you can create guides on how to clip your rabbit's claws, how to teach your dog to come when you call and so on.
This helps attract visitors to your online store.
There are several pet shops that have a Shoporama online store. For example, Gilpa, Dyreverdenen, Greencats and Canem.
You can also see this example that we made. If you are interested in getting a webshop like the example, you can be up and running in half an hour with a Shoporama webshop.
Remember - we are Danish and there is no commitment. You only pay for one month at a time and it's as cheap as less than 37,- ex VAT per day.