Ecommerce service building online shops/stores selling physical/virtual products using the WordPress CMS together with the WooCommerce extension.
Based in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and serving the Nottingham and Derby area, I solve online business issues with website services, including development, for small to medium businesses.
Ecommerce: How Much?
Your Ecommerce needs will be discussed and a price will be quoted based on the amount of work and/or complexity. Hourly maintenance at a later date is £25 p/h.
- Expect to pay at £1,000 – £20,000 for an Ecommerce website.
This includes information gathering, stock analysis, delivery logistics, payment processing set up, writing product descriptions, creating categories and taxonomies, spreadsheet admin, coding, designing, development, SEO and testing.
An initial consultation is free and can be done in person or via Skype.
What Type of Website Will Be Built?
I build most websites using WordPress, so working and developing on WordPress CMS is preferable, which means the WooCommerce extension is the ideal method in creating your online shop.
WooCommerce is preferable to the likes of Shopify, since WordPress websites can be ported to any webhost, whereas Shopify is stuck on the Shopify platform. There’s less control, kind of like how Wix works. Wix can be used to sell products, but again, you have less control and you’re stuck with Wix hosting.
Like WordPress, WooCommerce is free to use at a basic level, but is very powerful and needs to be configured by someone who knows what they’re doing. There are extensions for WooCommerce which are both free and paid.
So, WooCommerce, out-of-the-box, is a free WordPress extension but requires a lot of work and testing to get it functioning correctly.
How is Ecommerce Work Conducted?
We would need to spend a good amount of time building your inventory. This is done in a spreadsheet using a template I’ve already designed.
Every single piece of text and/or product criteria such as long description, short description, variations, attributes, price, SKU, delivery, upsell, cross sell, photo gallery and everything else needs to be clear and declarative.
This information is eventually mass-imported to WordPress using a paid-for plugin that is part of my WordPress toolbox.
Email Sequence Design
I’d also need to customise the email sequence that is initiated when a customer creates an account or makes a purchase – emails informing on product status (controlled from the dashboard) on subjects including order received, order pending, order on hold, order complete etc.
Building and Testing
I’ll be using a “localhost” such as the WAMP server sandbox to work on a cloned version of your site offline and in safety. No live edits or changes will be made to your website as we don’t want people trying to buy anything until.
Work done in the localhost will be showed to you on a screenshare or private video, and once you, me and other stakeholders are satisfied, the site will be uploaded to a private, secure web server for you to properly examine and stress-test the changes.
User testing to probe for unexpected problems on all different devices and different browsers is one of the most important steps for ensuring whack-a-mole style problems have not developed as a result of the complexities involved in ecommerce work.
Launch, Final Checks, Speed and Security
Once published, people can purchase products. I’d need to make final tweaks and changes and monitor for an errors. A caching and CDN service (for load speed and security) like Cloudflare would be added and configured.
Small Business Websites That Let You Sell
Do you work for, manage or own a small to medium business? Want me to build you an eCommerce site?
Let’s arrange an initial 15 minute call.
Learn About My Services
- 📏 Web design
- ⚙️ Web development
- 🔍 SEO
- 🇼 WordPress
- 🔧 Admin and maintenance
- 🌐 Graphic logo design
- ⌨️ Content writing
- 📧 Email marketing
- 🛡️ Domain security certificates