e-Commerce Web Design

Opening an e-commerce store as a small business can provide significant advantages. An e-commerce website store allows you to reach customers beyond your local area, opening up national and even international markets, with your products available to buy 24/7. An e-commerce web design can support your bricks and mortar business, or can be an online-only business. Regardless of its scope, an e-commerce store provides long-term benefits of increased visibility, efficiency, and customer reach allowing your business to grow.

We recommend building an e-commerce website on one of two leading e-commerce platforms: WooCommerce which is based on the WordPress web design platform, or Shopify, which is a unified e-commerce web site platform that allows you to build a customisable and scaleable online store.

WooCommerce extends the WordPress web design platform to offer solid e-commerce website functionality that can be extended and customised to meet your exact needs. This has the benefit that you only need to develop what you require and the e-commerce website will not include features that you don’t need.

No other e-commerce web design platform allows businesses to start for free and grow their e-commerce store as their business grows. Of course there are development costs involved, for the design and build of the online store, and ongoing hosting thereafter, but the e-commerce web design software itself is open source.

Shopify is a dedicated cloud-based e-commerce web design platform which provides you with a pre-built e-commerce store within a closed system. Whilst the e-commerce web store can be customised and extended with additional applications, it's not quite as flexible as a WooCommerce web site. However, this is often not a problem as the Shopify e-commerce store platform offers most everything any business will need for to run an e-commerce store really well and has a wealth of third party applications that extends its functionality.

Shopify e-commerce has been used by over 600,000 businesses worldwide and is ideal if you want an all-in-one e-commerce package and you're happy with the features it offers for an ongoing monthly fee.

Domain name

We will register a domain name for you or if you already own a domain can help you to point it at the new e-commerce website correctly.

Creative design

We'll make your e-commerce store stand out with a strong design optimised to maximise your sales.

Products

We'll develop the product pages, including eye-catching photography, search optimised product titles and descriptions, product variants, SKU and price.

Basket & checkout

Opportunities for up-sells, cross-sells, coupons and promotions need to be considered as well as deciding on the payment options for your customers.

Payment gateway

We will help you to select and integrate the best payment gateway including well known providers like Stripe, WorldPay, Paypal and Apple Pay.

SSL certificate

Your site needs to be safe and secure, so we'll advise you on the appropriate SSL certificate for your e-commerce website.

Fulfilment and delivery

We can help you to set-up the systems to best manage and fulfil your orders, be it in-house or outsourced and we can recommend a variety of postage and delivery options.

Customer service

We can help you to establish good customer service systems for your business, including dealing with returns and refunds, and offering customer support.

Reviews

Increasingly customers use peer-to-peer review services that influence who they'll buy from. Services such as Google Reviews, Trustpilot or Feefo can help you to build trust.

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