Create a free online store in 3 ways

If you are interested in e-commerce and want to create a free online store, we have dedicated this article to you to explain how to design a convenient online store to display products in front of potential customers without the need for previous technical experience or incurring additional expenses. Rather, all the explanation steps will be free from start to finish.

Of course, the free store that you design after reading this article will not be able to display thousands of products and accommodate millions of visitors, but it is enough to get started and get the basic features in online stores, and you can develop your store later. Contents of the article Create a free online store through Amazon AWS Create a free online store with professional hosting Create a free online store through some platforms

Is it possible to create a free online store? Regardless of the method you will rely on to create your online store, you must know that there are basics on which the online store will be built, just like any basics of building a website. These basics are a must-have whether you get it for free or paid, and they include: Registering a domain name

To access the store, let it be, for example, www.example.com, so that it is a unique address that visitors use to access your own store. Web hosting in which the site files are stored, and you publish a website (or the technical environment on which the site will be established) A website management system with the aim of facilitating the process of building the site (instead of coding it from scratch), and we mostly rely on the WordPress system, a system that helps you build the store and manage products, and we mostly rely on the WooCommerce system.

These basics must be available in any online store that is able to display its products to customers, and in this article we will talk about how to obtain these components for free, partially or completely, through the methods that we will talk about. Now let us show you the ways through which you can create a free online store.

Creating a free online store through Amazon Aws The current trend in creating websites has become a tendency to use cloud hosting that charges you for consumption, as it is more secure and guarantees the performance of a site than other types of servers, and you can rely on one of these hosting to build your online store for free through one of the providers of this service, which is Amazon Aws services. Amazon services offer several types of plans with different names Ec2, S3, RDS to suit the needs of different business owners in using hosting, but you do not need to worry about these differences at the present time if you want to create a WordPress website. You can get a free plan as described on the AWS Free Tier page

By obtaining part of the service resources for free, they automatically expire after a year or continue with you, and after the end of these resources you will be required to upgrade to a paid plan. AWS Free Tier Services from Amazon Of course, you will not get these huge resources that can handle a large number of visitors for free for a lifetime, but you do get the minimum resources that help you in the beginning to create a free online store without having to pay a lot of expenses in the beginning.

You can get a free plan and launch your WordPress site through the lightsail application, as we explained in detail. Then, after obtaining hosting and installing WordPress, you will install the WooCommerce extension.

Thus, you have an online store ready for customers

Through this method, you will be able to obtain free hosting, a free WordPress system, and a free WooCommerce store as well. Therefore, you are not required to pay any money other than the cost of the domain in most cases, and you can get it at an affordable price from any service provider. Or you can not buy a domain and rely on the IP provided to you by Amazon, but know that this service is suitable for you mostly for the purpose of learning or trying to purchase from a limited number of customers for a limited number of products and will not help you in building a huge online store.

Read also: How to get free WordPress hosting, its best providers, and its most prominent disadvantages. Creating a free online store with professional hosting. The second option, which is the best that I advise you to do in order to create a free online store, is to get professional hosting at an affordable price and rely on the free WordPress and WooCommerce systems. This is the option in which you invest some money in exchange for getting more freedom in customization. In this case, the expenses you incur are as follows: Hosting your site: Starting from $5 per month Domain name: Average of $10 per year WordPress system: Free WooCommerce system: Free WordPress template: Free WordPress plugins: Free You can rely on any hosting service provider through one of the reliable companies that we talked about the criteria for determining here, and after that you will be able to build the store with easy steps that we will explain to you.

For example, if you choose to rely on hosting from Digital Ocean to install WordPress on the hosting, you will have a ready-made WordPress site. You install WooCommerce and select the template and plugins necessary to have an online store if you perform the following steps to install WordPress on Droplet.

Or you have installed WordPress on any other hosting provider (you will find that the steps are very similar in installing WordPress with one click on the hosting), you will be directed to the login page for the website administrator control panel (WP Admin) as follows: Then after writing the login data, you will be transferred to the front end of the WordPress control panel, which we talked about in detail in the following illustrated guide, through which you can fully customize your online store.

These settings differ from one site to another depending on its template and its plugins, but the basic things will be similar on all sites. Do not rush, as you are still at the beginning. Now that you have obtained hosting and installed WordPress, you will move to the next stage, which is installing the WooCommerce add-on, which will help us in reviewing the products and customizing them on the site.

WooCommerce installation and store customization

WordPress is an easy site management system that works by installing ready-made templates to customize the site's appearance, as well as pre-configured add-ons to be able to manage the site's functions without the need to write code. We will rely on the WooCommerce add-on, which is a ready-made add-on that helps you fully customize your store for free.

You can install the plugin from within the WordPress control panel. You will go to: Plugins