The Perfect Storefront Platform

[mandy]

Randy Smythe with his thoughts on the perfect hosted storefront:

In A Perfect World, the Stores Platform of my dreams would have:

    * Unlimited Inventory Capacity. This is mostly so my Media selling brethren could load up their inventory.
    * A Shopping Cart - I know that will make most of you laugh, but eBay Stores is the largest Store platform in the world and they don't have a shopping cart.
    * Platform Wide Product Search - Basically all the inventory, in each of the stores on the platform could be found in a Store Search. Kind of a GoogleBase just for the product on the platform. There would be no additional listing charge to be included in this search other than if a seller wanted to be featured. The key would be that this is a simple product search not a new Marketplace.
    * Tiered Pricing - Monthly hosting charges would be based solely on SKU count and features...

full article: http://rksmythe.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-...ronts.html