I didn’t realize how easy it is to set up a ecommerce shopping site using Yahoo Merchant and the interface that is used in order to get your own site up and live within literally minutes.

The plans are as low as $25.97/month. The beauty about it is you don’t have to spend hours of farting around with programming and css files. Just upload your products you wish to sell, upload logo and choose colors and template and away you go. Of course you can then choose your preferred payment type and it contains an easy to use admin to monitor sales and track inventory.

It’s a great system to use if you just want an all in one solution. If you already have a website and just need to use their payment gateway this is also possible. It can be a very useful alternative then using paypal carts or other pain in the butt platforms.

The great thing is they are currently waiving the setup fees, if you click this promotional link – Yahoo Merchant Promotion you will benefit from this waive.

One thing I must say is also great is the fact  that if you have lets say 10,000 images it will all be stored on their server, so you also don’t even have to worry about the hosting and website speed and quota and to have your whole site stored on the Yahoo Hosting account extremely secure.

Here again are some store examples:

This is my favourite bit when signing up you instantly get all of these marketing benefits:

*  Search engine-friendly pages
* Automatic submission to Yahoo!
* Automatic submission to Google
* $100 credit with Yahoo! Search Marketing**
* Free Yahoo! Local listing
* $50 credit for Google AdWords
* 20% off Yahoo! Shopping default minimum bids in all categories
* Free trial on Shopping.com-$50 value
* $50 free traffic from Shopzilla
* 1 month trial with Campaigner by Got (email marketing)

That in itself is almost worth the money!

If you are already using Yahoo Merchant please share with me what you think about it, I would be happy to hear from your experiences.