Lesson 9 - Integrating Payment Gateway with Opencart site

In this lesson, we will see how to integrate our payment gateway with our Opencart Installation.

1. Login to your Instamojo dashboard and click on API’s and Plugins.

2. Under available platform plugins, click on the relevant Opencart version of your installation and download the plugin.

3. Login to your Opencart admin dashboard and click on Extensions->Extension Installer.

4. Click the upload button and upload the plugin you have downloaded earlier.

Lesson 7 - Install OpenCart CMS on your website

In the previous lesson of the free e-commerce course, we have seen how to set up web hosting for your Website.

In this lesson, we will see how to Install Opencart CMS on your website.

What is a CMS?

CMS is the short form of Content Management System and it’s like a Software application developed for a specific use and we use the Web Content Management System (Web CMS) called Opencart for our purpose. There are a lot of Web CMS like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Opencart etc and each one specializes in some specific functions.

Would you like to get a free payment gateway consultation for your business?

I have been in the e-commerce and Payments industry for 4+ years now and I have been running a free e-commerce course for those who wanted to get into the e-commerce business. I have been getting several inquiries from SME’s regarding getting a payment gateway for their business, hence I have decided to offer free payment gateway consulting for business as we have partnered with a startup-friendly major online payment gateway, we are in a better position to offer payment gateway consulting services.

Lesson 7 - How to Register Web Hosting for your Website?

In this lesson, we will see how to Register Web Hosting for your account and use it to host your domain.

Watch the below video to start the lesson. In the video, we show you different Hosting companies and their pricing and how to get special offers using coupon codes etc. Select One hosting provider, who you feel affordable and register hosting with them.

Lesson 6 - Create free Professional Business email with custom domain using Zoho mail

Welcome to the Lesson 6 of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to get a free professional business email with your own website (eg, [email protected]) using Zoho mail.

In order to complete this tasks, you must have already purchased a domain name and added it with CloudFlare to manage the DNS settings.

If you haven’t done already, please complete those first and if you don’t know how to complete those steps, please refer the “Learn e-commerce” page for help articles.

Lesson 5 - Managing your website DNS with CloudFlare

Welcome to the 5th Lesson of the Free e-commerce course.

In this lesson learn how to sign up for CloudFlare and change the nameservers accordingly to accommodate the change and also how to create an “A” record to point your domain name to your server IP.

Click the below video to start the lesson.

Once you have signed up and updated the name servers, you can manage all the DNS settings of the website from CloudFlare.

Lesson 4 - How to Signup for a Payment Gateway in India?

Are you a small business worried about getting a Payment gateway?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for a home business without company registration?

Do you want to collect payments online without having a website?

Are you looking for a payment gateway for your e-commerce store?

Are you worried about the initial cost of setting up a payment gateway?

Lesson 3 (Bonus) - What is Domain Name, Hosting and DNS?

Welcome to the bonus lesson of Free e-commerce course, in the last lesson I explained how to register a domain name for your website but seems people are confused about certain things….

If you are trying to understand How a website works and What is the difference between a Website and domain name, what is hosting, then it might be overwhelming at first.

Lesson 3 - How to Register your website domain name?

Welcome to the third lesson of the Free Online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we show you how to register your own website domain name.

Start the below video to watch it.

You can use other domain registrars such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, Google domains etc as well. The core concepts remains the same.

Lesson 2 - Business and Tax registrations required for an e-commerce business in India

Welcome to the Second lesson of the Free online e-commerce course and in this lesson, we discuss the Business and Tax Registrations required to run an e-commerce business in India and also how to do the said registrations.

Click on the below video to start the lesson, also you can subscribe to the youtube channel to get a notification whenever a new video is uploaded.

Lesson 1 - What is ecommerce and it’s types?

Welcome to the First lesson of the Free e-commerce course and in this lesson, I’ll be speaking about what is e-commerce and what are the types of e-commerce.

Click on the below video to watch it.

In the next lesson, we will learn about what are the legal registrations (such as business reg., GST, PAN etc) required to run an e-commerce business in India.

I have been into Internet/e-commerce/online payments for the last 5-7 years and I have been working in the online e-commerce industry full-time for almost 3 years now after resigning from my corporate job.

I have worked on my own as well as client e-commerce projects and that constitute my experience and I have learned all these things from my own research in the past 7 years and I must admit, it took a lot of time learning all these things and a still a lot to learn.

If you are a small business or a startup looking to collect online digital payments from Credit / Debit cards, net-banking and you couldn’t afford the fancy swiping machine or a costly payment account. Now you can simply share payments link via Whatsapp, Facebook, SMS, e-mail etc and your customers can pay online easily with the comfort of home and the amount gets settled in your bank account in 2 days.

Amazon launched their Prime membership last year in India and I’ve been using it for the past 1 year and based on my 1-year experience if you ask me if it is worth paying ₹499 / ₹999 (You can get ₹500 Cashback in your Amazon Pay wallet), I would say, Absolutely yes. First, let’s see what are the benefits of Prime Membership.

Benefits of Prime Membership

• Free delivery on all products Fulfilled by Amazon and most of the high moving products are fulfilled by Amazon.
• Free One Day and Two day delivery on eligible products and pin codes, for which you have to pay extra if you are not a prime member.
• Early access to deals and special offers for Prime members.
• And my favorite, unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video which includes a lot of Hollywood movies and popular TV series

Should you go for it?

You should. If you are a heavy shopper and you are based in any of the metros, then you can get free fast delivery and it’s more than worth.