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Online store

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCore term

In e-commerce, online store means: A website or app where a business shows its products and customers can order and pay for them without visiting a physical shop.

In Turkish: online mağaza, internet mağazası, e-mağaza

How it is used

Used for a brand's own shop on its own domain, as opposed to a marketplace. You launch, set up, run or redesign an online store. British English also says online shop; webshop and web store are common in Europe.

Example sentences

  1. We sell on two marketplaces, but our own online store has the best margins.

  2. It took us three weeks to set up the online store and upload the first 200 products.

Common collocations

  • launch an online store
  • set up an online store
  • run an online store
  • online store owner
  • e-commerceBuying and selling goods or services over the internet, including everything around it: online stores, payments, delivery and customer service.
  • e-commerce platformSoftware used to build and run an online store, covering the product catalog, cart, checkout, payments, orders and integrations with other tools.
  • storefrontThe customer-facing part of an online store: the pages, design and navigation that shoppers see, as opposed to the admin panel behind it.
  • marketplaceA large website or app where many independent sellers list and sell their products, while the platform handles traffic, payments and often delivery rules.
  • direct-to-consumerDescribes a brand that makes its own products and sells them straight to customers, mainly through its own online store, without wholesalers or retail chains.

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