E-Commerce & Shopping Carts

The key to your success or failure when selling on the internet can be dependent on the ecommerce solution you decide to use.

Which e-commerce solution?

An established trend for businesses that provide products and services is to build an e-commerce website for them to expand their goods to a wider audience.

The key to your success or failure when selling on the internet can be dependent on the ecommerce solution you decide to use. As there are several solutions from hosted services, off the shelf shopping carts to bespoke e-commerce solutions available, it is crucial to understand your target audience and how they would use the web.

E.g. if you want to sell high value items but are using a standard ‘price first’ shopping cart that doesn’t necessarily showcase the product, then there is a chance that your users will move onto the next site that appeared within their search results.

Making the right choice for you ecommerce success

At Design and Online, we can work with you from idea to creation, making sure you have the correct solution for your business and budget.

To help understand the type of investment that may be required to get you internet business progressing, please find a list below that provide web development guide prices for various solutions:

  • >1k Web hosted solutions (Ebay store, Froogle etc…)
  • £1K > £3K Off the shelf products
  • £3K + for bespoke solutions

What next?

If you would like Design and Online to work with you on your project, please send us your requirements or contact any member of our team to discuss your requirements.


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