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E-Commerce Sites
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Help your customers love your online shop
Our e-commerce sites are completely tailored solutions built around your brand and what you want customers to do online. We focus on achieving your key goals - bringing in the best visitors, promoting a strong brand and making buying easy. We also include a number of tools to allow you to look after your customers and maintain the site.
Search engine optimisation
We program to universal web standards that make our sites accessible to all users, including search engines. Product information is more prominent because our content management tool creates independent, non-template pages which the search engines value more highly. This means that our sites tend to perform better than competitors on product terms. We also carry out keyword research and can edit the search engine content of every page individually, so that your site is optimised for the phrases that people are actually looking for.
Find out more about our search engine optimisation services.
Online branding
If you want people to spend money with you online, it's even more important that your site establishes trust with site visitors. This means creating a strong and effective design which tells customers they are in the right place and reassures them that you will deliver good quality products and service. We work closely with you to develop an appropriate brand - whether or not you already have an existing identity - and build a website that helps to establish trust. We also know what users expect from an e-commerce site, such as terms and conditions, a privacy policy and frequently asked questions.
Selling more online
The advantage of marketing and selling online is that your customer finds your site at exactly the moment they are interested in your products. Once you have attracted the right visitors, we make it easy for them to use the site and make their purchase. This means simple and instinctive navigation, customer tools such as product search and calculators, and a straightforward buying process.
E-commerce features
We program everything from scratch, so you will get a unique product catalogue, shopping basket and payment integration according to your needs. Product details will suit what your customers need and what you want to emphasise, such as price, size, colour choice or product combinations. Our shopping basket is simple and easy to use, making it as hassle-free as possible for your customer to find and buy what they are looking for. We have worked with a number of payment providers, including Protx, Paypal and SecPay, and with major banks such as Lloyds, NatWest, Barclays and HSBC.
Online sales experience
Setting up an online shop is only half the story, and our experience with other clients allows us to provide informal advice and relevant details for all the other issues of e-commerce. We can help you source legal terms and conditions and third party payment providers, and offer advice on issues such as delivery, customer management and ongoing marketing.
Product and order management
Our unique content management tool allows you to keep control of your product just as easily as if it was a physical store. You can add and remove products, edit prices, images and descriptions, and edit the text and images of the non-product pages.
Extra tools allow you to control special offers, out of stock notifications, featured products and cross-selling, as well as view customer orders and send marketing emails. Our software-based approach means we can develop exactly the solution you need to keep yourself and your customers happy.
What does an e-commerce site cost?
All our projects are developed from scratch, with the tools that you need to provide the best shopping experience for your customers, as well as the tools to manage and measure the results. An e-commerce site starts from £3700 + VAT and a typical shopping site costs around £6000 + VAT. Depending on your needs, our services include:
- Free hosting and domain names for one year
- Alternative design concepts and development
- Guidance with site structure and content
- Complete product database and presentation
- User tools such as calculators and cross-selling
- Full shopping cart and checkout facilities
- Integration with a payment provider
- Content management to edit products and site content
- Online orders database and email marketing
- Search engine submission and optimisation
- Support and consultation on general e-commerce issues
