Amazon Webstore

Prior to Amazon closing its Webstore service in 2016, it gave sellers the ability to run an e-commerce site that was maintained and run by Amazon with the seller’s own products.

The Benefits of Using the Webstore Over Your Own Website

Building, hosting, and maintaining a website is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. For most small-scale business owners, handing over all the technical aspects of running the e-commerce store to a professional ensures that everything will be handled properly, efficiently, and in a cost-effective manner. Additional benefits of using Amazon’s Webstore feature are as follows:

• Higher profits. Amazon charges a flat commission for Webstore transactions, instead of the individual charges that a seller normally pays. This results in higher profits for the seller because he is paying less for the services provided. In addition, certain prices and shipping charges are completely subject to the seller’s discretion.
• Higher traffic. Amazon employs an internal search engine and marketing services to help increase traffic to the seller’s Webstore.
• More streamlined functionality for Amazon buyers. Buyers are able to use their regular Amazon account and stored credit card information to make purchases at a specific Webstore.
• Amazon is a trusted name. Amazon is a known, reliable name and network, so a buyer automatically feels more comfortable making a purchase at an Amazon-run storefront than a random e-commerce site that is unaffiliated. Amazon has high-security certification, as well as the familiar A-to-Z Guarantee that Amazon buyers already know and appreciate.
• More reputable checkout services. Since Amazon is the name behind the storefront, the checkout services are faster, easier to use, and more recognized than a random checkout service that the seller would employ.
• Uninterrupted service. Due to the fact that Amazon is maintaining the site personally, the seller can be confident that the site will be up and functional at all times.
• A wide gamut of tools and features designed exclusively for Webstore owners. Templates, widgets, SEO-rich content and services, promotional services, inventory and site management features, customer service tools, and other important merchant tools allow for an easier overall experience for both the seller and the buyer.