guidance for setting up online store

[rwiju_pal123]

Dear All,
I am setting up an online store but have absolutely no experience in this. I already have a web designer working for me but he his providing all free software to me . My concern is how reliable are these free software as we will have nearly 800 products and I dont want the site to be slow or a site that requires high maintainance.
Also if any one of you have any other advice as to how to make the best site my budget is nearly USD 600

[temi]

Hello,
most free software are quite good but you have to do the maintenance yourself, if you provider is very skilled that should not be a huge problems.

There are also paid ecommerce software that give good value for money like boss cart shopping cart. Premium version of boss cart cost £199

Thanks