Launching a Store on Melbis Shop

Congratulations on deciding to create your own online store! Even though nowadays you can easily rent a selling space on some popular marketplace, you have still come to the conclusion that having your own online store is a completely different level of business. Well, we believe you are on the right track, and therefore we are ready to guide you on how to actually become the owner of your own online store. 

The first thing to understand is the main principle: the owner of their own store keeps the key aspects under their personal control. What does this mean? It means that if previously, as a business owner, you turned to specialized programmers or rented ready-made platforms, now you need to take care of the key things yourself. You are moving into a different, higher league, and that is wonderful! 

What are these key aspects? For an online business, there are only two: a domain name and your own server. Of course, you may become worried, expecting difficulties, and try to delegate this to other specialists. But that would be a mistake. A domain name and your own server are key concepts. Of course, you cannot handle everything by yourself, and as your business grows, you will turn to lawyers, programmers, marketers, etc. But keeping control of the domain and server for an online business is absolutely necessary personally — these are literally the keys to your business

We have good news for you: we designed Melbis Shop in such a way as to make your start in e-commerce as easy as possible. Well then, let’s get started and outline your action plan to launch your online store: 

  1. Buying a server
  2. Registering a domain name
  3. Installing the Melbis Shop client application on your computer. 
  4. Configuring the server and installing the Melbis Shop server platform
  5. Installing the demo store. 

We have placed each of these steps into a separate section of the documentation, where we have tried to explain and demonstrate everything clearly. 

We wish you a successful business!