Delegating an e-commerce site to the staff

[Alexandoy]

Do you think it is wise to delegate the operation of the e-commerce website to the staff? An online store owner is planning to sell his website but for the meantime his staff are handling the operation. It is not clear about the status of the business but it looks like it is earning. If you were the owner, would you just sell or let the staff do the work?

 

[Sariana23]

In the case that the company is generating profits with the website, if it is due to lack of time and dedication of the owner, it is preferable to delegate the functions to the staff. The opportunities to generate profits in any way should be taken advantage of. Now if there is any distrust and insecurity with the workers, you should sell.

 

[Lilcee]

Its not a wise decision, it's better to handle it yourself. I once heard of a disgruntled staff who changed all the the passwords of a business's social media handles and restricted the owner from gaining access.

 

[Victakin83]

I would actually lets the staff do the work , but i would actually test the staff ability and see if he or she is really capable or not to be able to do the job successfully

 

[Kane]

I don't see any problem in letting the staff manage your ecommerce business as long as you have control over the finances. You may be using paypal, crypto, stripe etc payment gateways on your site, if you have full control over these payment gateways account, you are on the safe side.

 

[Sariana23]

I would actually lets the staff do the work , but i would actually test the staff ability and see if he or she is really capable or not to be able to do the job successfully

What you describe is of utmost importance, to know if the staff is trained to perform successfully in the e-commerce site. If they have the necessary knowledge, there is no problem from my point of view. As I wrote before, you have to keep generating profits.

 

[Sincerem]

In the case that the company is generating profits with the website, if it is due to lack of time and dedication of the owner, it is preferable to delegate the functions to the staff. The opportunities to generate profits in any way should be taken advantage of. Now if there is any distrust and insecurity with the workers, you should sell.

Nice point, if the staff delegated to works perfectly and generate steady funds. Then the owner should stick with him cos such person is trying the best to keep the business running. Unless otherwise is said, then the owner can decide to sell if off to avoid running loss.

 

[Sariana23]

Nice point, if the staff delegated to works perfectly and generate steady funds. Then the owner should stick with him cos such person is trying the best to keep the business running. Unless otherwise is said, then the owner can decide to sell if off to avoid running loss.

We are thinking the same The idea is to generate income and if for that you must have the support of the staff it will be fine. But as you describe it is already the owner's decision and the benefit generated by the staff.

 

[Sincerem]

We are thinking the same The idea is to generate income and if for that you must have the support of the staff it will be fine. But as you describe it is already the owner's decision and the benefit generated by the staff.

Sure, it should be the owners decision to make . He knows what best for the future of his company.

 

[tyrim88]

Do you think it is wise to delegate the operation of the e-commerce website to the staff? An online store owner is planning to sell his website but for the meantime his staff are handling the operation. It is not clear about the status of the business but it looks like it is earning. If you were the owner, would you just sell or let the staff do the work?

Some persons have different reasons why they might decide they want to sell their site.But a site that is making some reasonable amount of money is very much ok to allow the staff to still control the operations,but it should be closely monitored because finance is involved here.

 

[Chibson]

I think it is the responsibility of the owner of the platform to sale his platform. Their staffs don't really have the permission to do that on his behalf.

 

[tyrim88]

Do you think it is wise to delegate the operation of the e-commerce website to the staff? An online store owner is planning to sell his website but for the meantime his staff are handling the operation. It is not clear about the status of the business but it looks like it is earning. If

Its not a wise decision, it's better to handle it yourself. I once heard of a disgruntled staff who changed all the the passwords of a business's social media handles and restricted the owner from gaining access.

you were the owner, would you just sell or let the staff do the work?

There wil always come to be a time in the life of any business,because of the need to expand and attain a desire level of growth,you would need to engage some hands that you know will be competent in hndling affairs od the oragnisation,and you just have to give people a trial.It is good to engage people and give them the benefit of boubt when they have proven themself.

 

[Razor1911]

I think it is the responsibility of the owner of the platform to sale his platform. Their staffs don't really have the permission to do that on his behalf.

Sometimes it becomes a hard task to detail a manageable person in the portfolio. The person should be trustworthy, otherwise there might be some conflicts of interest between you and your appointed staffs.

 

[Ralphjoe]

Its not a wise decision, it's better to handle it yourself. I once heard of a disgruntled staff who changed all the the passwords of a business's social media handles and restricted the owner from gaining access.

I concur with you because an e-commerce business it's a very sensitive business as the amount of money that you can rent from that business cannot be easily accounted for so if you put a member of your staff in charge of that business for you then there is the possibility that that stuff can be taken out of your profit and be giving it away lesser amount of profit.

 

[Nurudeen]

So far the staff know how to run or manage the affairs of an online store, I don't see anything wrong with that. The goals is to make sales at the end of the day

 

[Bousine123]

It will depend solely on the competency of the staff and the amount of trust I have towards such individual. If he or she is someone to be trusted, then I can consider doing it.

 

[Tolumi]

An E-commerce website can be easily managed by the owner even if he is not always available online. You can dedicate the work to the staff and monitor them from the admin end. You can be the only one with access to sales and profit. The staff just need to attend to customer care and sometimes inventories.

 

[Chibson]

An E-commerce website can be easily managed by the owner even if he is not always available online. You can dedicate the work to the staff and monitor them from the admin end. You can be the only one with access to sales and profit. The staff just need to attend to customer care and sometimes inventories.

This is a very good advice because if you employ someone your trust and has the capacity to manage your ecommerce website then you definitely need to not to worry. But monitoring closely is important.

 

[Tolumi]

There are people who offer their services as virtual assistants on freelancing websites, many of them have skills in the area of e-commerce management and are very hardworking and dedicated.

 

[eLdavis]

You putting the staff over these things does not mean they should have control over everything that goes on. You can give them some task but everything has to go through you.