Ecommerce websites for Purley shops and makers
Quick answer: An ecommerce site for a Purley shop is a catalogue, a checkout and a way to get the order out the door. A modest shop usually sits in Growth at £495, eight to twelve pages. A large catalogue is quoted before anyone imports a product. Starter at £150 remains a one-page brochure.
Makers and retailers in Purley, from a high-street unit to a studio in Sanderstead, often sell in person and want the same products online. The site has to match the stock you can actually post or collect. A product page for something you cannot supply is worse than no shop. The counter in the picture is an example. Those jars are not a range we sell and not a client's stock.
When a shop is worth building
Build a shop when people already ask to pay without visiting, or when you sell the same items often enough to describe them once. If every sale is a conversation, a brochure and a form may still be better. That can be Starter at £150 or Business at £295 for up to five pages.
Collection from Purley and posting further afield are different promises. Say which you do. Do not imply next-day delivery if you pack orders twice a week.
Business at £295 can explain the range and take an enquiry. It is not a checkout. If you need the payment on the site, say so at the start.
How the shop is chosen
The platform follows operations: payment providers, stock, and who packs the box. It is not a logo preference. The ecommerce page says we compare the options against the brief rather than picking one in a template.
Either platform can have its own fees. Those fees are not our £495. Ask for both numbers before you decide. A cheap build on an expensive platform can be the wrong way round.
You should be able to open the shop account yourself. We should not be the only login that can mark an order as sent.
What Growth includes
Growth at £495 covers an expanded site of eight to twelve pages, including a modest shop when that is the agreed scope. It includes the first year of domain, hosting and SSL. It does not include a promise of sales.
If you have more products than that scope can present properly, we stop and quote. Importing unfinished products so the homepage looks busy is how shops launch late.
Year two for domain, hosting and SSL is around £60 to the providers. Platform and card fees continue separately. There is no long-term contract with us just to keep the shop online.
Orders and returns
Write the delivery area, the returns window and who pays postage before the first real order. Purley collection should have a real address and a time when someone is there. A returns policy copied from another country is not a policy.
Product photos should be of the thing you sell. A picture that hides the size causes returns. If you do not have photos yet, do not publish the product.
Test an order, including a failed payment and a refund. The person who will read the order email should do the test, not only the developer.
Moving an existing shop
A move needs the product list, the old addresses and a check that payments still land in the right account. We plan that before the old shop is switched off. Redirect each important product address to the new one.
Sending every old product to the homepage loses the customer who bookmarked a single item. That mapping is the same care as a redesign.
Tell us the number of products and how you deliver when you ask for a consultation. A one-page brochure can be ready in about a week. A shop takes longer because the products and the test orders are the work.
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