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I don’t think you realise how complicated the e-commerce is for a company. You are thinking of a garage sale.

With each order:

- you need warehouse integration to keep the sync of physical to digital store. That has to happen fast or you’ll get orders with no stock.

- You need to sync the payment to whatever ancient accounting system they use, again while issuing invoices, consolidating customers … etc.

- Logistics management, where to get the order from, issuing a label, using the right fleet, making sure it is dispatched on time, arrive on time.

- Customer support, refunds, partial refunds, adding items after order … etc.

So yeah, 5 people!



I didn't say 5 people in total




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