Many of new businessmen, who are stepping into E-commerce for the first time, would defiantly feel that spending hundreds of dollars on e-commerce websites doesn’t make any sense. Obviously this doubt rises in everyone’s mind as there are plenty of websites which offer free templates and other utility tools. But the fact is that a genuine product is the one which will fetch you profits as the main difference between a free template and an original template being the performance and the website template features.
A genuine one has a unique and tested code and where as the free ones are the ones with a slightly altered code. Don’t expect that these free providers would write unique code for every template, come on they are also businessmen like you and me who work to make profits.
Moreover, there are millions of e-commerce sites and definitely you can find thousands of rival sites then you can only stand a chance if you can provide better service and better marketing than those people. And for that a free template would not fit that bill anyway.
The other big disadvantage is that a free template is hosted on a shared server which can become slow most of the time creating inconvenience to your customers. Whereas the paid one provides unlimited web space and a dedicated server so, you can add unlimited number of photos, videos for the comfort of the customers. So, it is so simple if you are looking to make genuine profits then provide genuine services and have a good performing website.