Mailchimp is ready to step in e-commerce world after leading email marketing sector

After making a mark in the email marketing sector, Mailchimp is all ready to launch its own online stores for small and medium businesses, as well as a new appointment booking service.

Mailchimp has introduced a whole new service plan which will offer its users to build sites with unlimited pages without bandwidth restrictions, build their product catalogs and manage their orders, taxes and shipping configurations, including Search Engine Optimisation tools and integration with Google Analytics.

Mailchimp has also classified its services on the basis of different plans available for users. Users with a free plan will have to pay a 2% transaction fee while those on the ‘Plus’ plan will have to pay $29 per month with a 0.5% transaction fee. For $10/month, Mailchimp will remove its own branding and users will get access to email and chat support and only pay a 1.5% transaction fee.

These features of new e-commerce services will be available to users across the U.S and UK by May 18, whereas appointment booking features will be available from 27 April onwards.

“In fact, our goal is still to have the best email marketing in the world. We know our customers and partners demand consistency and continuity as much as they demand new features and functionality, so we’re refining and nurturing existing tools, too. We continue to work on making the process of designing emails as easy as possible, and in a few months we’re adding new beautiful email templates.” said Mailchimp CEO and co-founder Ben Chestnut.