Ecommerce, Portals, Websites, WooCommerce
Website design and development / animation production
what we do
eCommerce
Online selling has seen one of the biggest changes out of all retail sectors in recent years. The importance of competitive edge is a challenge that should consistently be reviewed.
scalable, functional & attractive
Year on year, online spending just keeps growing. To get a piece of the action, you need a scalable, functional, attractive eCommerce website.
Conversion
One of the most important factors is that you review any change you are making against conversion. This can be reviewed with tools that allow you to track activity. Every change needs to be quantified.
Road Blocks
Having the right development partner to grow your website is important. Check your chosen provider has the right skill set to cover at least a 5 year plan of growth.
Knowledge
Having the right knowledge for your online solution is important. For example, have you covered PCI compliance when selling online?
Ownership
A website is like any other business asset; you should own it! There are lease car style solutions out there, for example Shopify, but bear in mind these have less value and control. It is important to understand where your intellectual property lies.
Support
It is paramount to have ongoing support to lean on so that you can have changes, fixes, and updates implemented swiftly. It may also be important to you to have flexibility for you or your team to make edits internally.
Moving or Growing eCommerce
Moving into eCommerce – or improving your existing presence – can be a treacherous journey and there are many aspects that need to be considered. You need a team which understands how customers think and how they behave online; people with great ideas and the skills to breathe life into them. Below are some important points to consider regarding your eCommerce website design.
Existing Store
- Your target market
- Ideas for growth
- The main reason for migration
- Integrations to improve processes
- Retaining URL structure and redirects
- Platform choice
- Quantifying changes
- Device compatibility
- Current design trends
- Return on investment
New Store
- Your target market
- How to launch your products
- The reason for starting a store
- Integrations to improve processes
- Kick starting exposure
- Platform choice
- Quantifying choices
- Device compatibility
- Current design trends
- 5 year plan to see a return
The right choice
Magento and WooCommerce are popular choices for building ecommerce websites because of their flexibility, scalability, and customisation options, as well as their open-source nature and strong community support. Of course, there are other solutions, but these two being the most popular means integration such as payment gateways are typically developed for these as a priority.
Magento and WooCommerce are the most popular choices for eCommerce where you want to have a physical asset that you own. Unlike solutions such as Shopify, you control where your website is hosted therefore you control the cost, as your website is not governed by one company.
Magento
Magento 2 is a complex but widely used solution. Its fair to say that the system can handle a serious volumes of orders. One of its main advantages is its multi store capabilities where you might want more than one shopfront pulling from the same back end product data. This also means one route for things like order management.
WooComerce
WooCommerce is becoming a more popular solution because the development fees are significantly cheaper to Magento. It can also handle a large selling operation. There is also a greater amount of flexibility in making edits. The platform benefits from all WordPress features so things like blogging are already built in.
Vue.js
Vue.js can be bolted onto either WooCommerce or Magento and allows for a super slick and fast customer facing approach. The site is stripped back of anything that may hinder load speeds. The implementation adds to the bottom line cost of development but offers serious advantages in exposure, ranking, and speed.
recent work
Our Portfolio
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Feeling Restricted?
5 Models of eCommerce Explained
Business to Consumer
Typically abbreviated to B2C, this is the most common form of ecommerce selling where the transaction is between the business and consumer.
Business to Business
Known as B2B selling, this is where businesses sell directly to businesses. Typically this is referred to as a trade site, where sales might be behind a login. Trade portals can also be added to B2C websites.
Consumer to Consumer
C2C sales are people that sell as individuals. This would typically be someone selling on channels such as eBay, Amazon and Facebook Marketplace, for example.
Consumer to Business
C2B eCommerce is when an individual sells their offering to a business or company. This could be, for example, a freelancer selling services, or an individual product manufacturer selling products to a business.
Direct to Consumer
D2C is typically referring to a brand selling direct to the consumer. This position of direct selling for brands is becoming more popular due to wholesalers becoming involved in price wars.
What we do
It’s not just about creating an online shop. Since we started building eCommerce sites in 2002, we’ve become experts in all the crucial ingredients that go into eCommerce success. In fact, we’ve helped numerous clients become multi-million pound online retailers.
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Integrations
Having a functioning eCommerce website is great, but what else can you do to save time?
Integrations are paramount to a successful business operation. Websites are capable of selling via multiple channels such as eBay and Amazon. Additionally, you can blend your platform with your existing accounting and order management systems including Sage, Xero, third-party warehousing and in-house ERP systems.
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