{"id":4837,"date":"2020-07-28T13:14:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:16:27","slug":"5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"5 Risks Ecommerce Store Owners should Avoid in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020\/#Some_Inevitable_Threats_to_Ecommerce_to_Avoid_in_2020\" title=\"Some Inevitable Threats to Ecommerce to Avoid in 2020\">Some Inevitable Threats to Ecommerce to Avoid in 2020<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020\/#Security_Breach\" title=\"Security Breach:\">Security Breach:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020\/#Misuse_of_Intellectual_Property\" title=\"Misuse of Intellectual Property:\">Misuse of Intellectual Property:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020\/#Poor_SEO_Practices\" title=\"Poor SEO Practices:\">Poor SEO Practices:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020\/#Weak_Authentication_Methods\" title=\"Weak Authentication Methods:\">Weak Authentication Methods:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/5-risks-ecommerce-store-owners-should-avoid-in-2020\/#Client_Disputes_and_Refunds\" title=\"Client Disputes and Refunds:\">Client Disputes and Refunds:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Those who are in the ecommerce industry are always concerned about their benchmarks, latest trends, budgets and etc. Unfortunately, they ignore a lot of risks that are highly crucial, interconnected with various operations and should be paid heed before it gets too late. Ecommerce business carries out a lot of transactions and also give a lot of exposure to a large audience base. Without following proper security tips and strategies to avoid the major risks, it is not possible to attain success though conventional retailing methods.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Some_Inevitable_Threats_to_Ecommerce_to_Avoid_in_2020\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Some Inevitable Threats to Ecommerce to Avoid in 2020<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Security_Breach\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Security Breach:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ecommerce development<\/span> is highly vulnerable to online security breaches and cybercrimes and the online security risks include phishing, unprotected website services and website hacking. So it is essential that your ecommerce web security is very strong. And to protect your business, you can ask your ecommerce developers to enforce additional layers of network security. The contact forms, sign up boxes and search queries need to be more secured and you can also initiate and end transactions with SSL certification.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Misuse_of_Intellectual_Property\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Misuse of Intellectual Property:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is another most common security threats of ecommerce business and protection of the IP is very important in the ecommerce industry, which includes website logos, content, products and images and icons and taglines. Some techniques that can be used to get rid of the risks include not copying the IP of any other company, offer training to employees regarding IP security, enforce the strong copyright rules, employ strict security policies and practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Poor_SEO_Practices\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Poor SEO Practices:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">SEO and Digital marketing of the business is very important for ecommerce business as with higher visibility, your sales will also increase. Since Google keeps on changing the algorithms, which drastically affects your ranking, having a low rank means low traffic to your site which ultimately results in low sales and revenues. In order to avoid this risk, you can hire professional SEO service providers so that they can take care of your website marketing and find the right keywords to promote the products, use some right tools for search and then make an effective social media strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/blog\/actionable-seo-tips-for-your-opencart-ecommerce-store\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Actionable SEO Tips for Your Opencart Ecommerce Store<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Weak_Authentication_Methods\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Weak Authentication Methods:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A weak authentication method can make your <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"\/ecommerce\/\">ecommerce website development<\/a><\/span> more prone to cyber-attacks and if you are authenticating a user by the ID and password, then chances are high that the information can be easily stolen. To avoid this risk, you need a strong authentication method for your online security and the best solution is to use a two factor or multifactor authentication method. It is also the best way to improve your online security and helps to add extra layers by asking for the verification code.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Client_Disputes_and_Refunds\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Client Disputes and Refunds:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mostly in an ecommerce store there are times when disputes arise when the product doesn\u2019t arrive at the address and the amount has been charged from the customer.\u00a0 Sometimes the customer also is charged twice or the product doesn\u2019t match the description. Fraud refunds can occur and there are some potential risks, which are associated with ecommerce business. These risks can be avoided by not charging the customer unless the items are delivered, by using a proper tracking number for each order and avoid shipping the wrong product.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/blog\/what-shoppers-demand-from-a-good-ecommerce-store\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">What Shoppers Demand from a Good Ecommerce Store<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are in the ecommerce industry are always concerned about their benchmarks, latest trends, budgets and etc. Unfortunately, they ignore a lot of risks that are highly crucial, interconnected with various operations and should be paid heed before it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[759,453,377],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecommerce-website-development","tag-ecommerce-development-company","tag-ecommerce-website-development","tag-magento-ecommerce-development-company"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}