It looks like it is incredibly simple to set up an online store these days. As long as you’ve got something to sell, a website to act as a storefront and a PayPal account, you can get yourself set up in next to no time.

Companies out there will take all the difficult stuff off your hands. You can just add buttons to your site and have a fully functioning shopping cart and checkout system up and running in minutes…. Impressive.

E-junkie is the company I’ve been looking at. They just charge a flat fee per month depending on the number of items you are offering for sale. That’s the number of products you are offering, not the number of individual sales you make.

So, for example, their lowest rate is just $5 a month for 10 products. Drop some code on the website and viola, away you go. It works just as well for tangible items as it does for non-physical products (mp3’s, ebooks, etc). It really does lower the barriers to entry for an online store to virtually undetectable levels.