Affordable E-Commerce Web Design
Affordable E-Commerce web design is now a reality. However, it was one of the most expensive types of websites we used to make. What made e-commerce web development so costly in the past was that there were so many options. As a result, the more options you wanted, the higher the price. Additionally, the website had to be linked to a merchant account. For that reason, you may wonder how is it even possible that an e-commerce website could cost as little as $299.99. First, it is important to understand why it was the most expensive type of web development project any web design company offered.
Once you see what made it so expensive you’ll understand how we were able to make it become so inexpensive. Online stores always had so many options and the more options a client wanted the more it would cost. For example, a client may tell us they invented a certain product. Maybe they only have this one item to sell so they don’t want a fancy, e-commerce website with all the bells and whistles. However, the problem for us as developers is that it makes little difference if there is one product or ten or more. The reason is that we still have to connect the website to a shopping cart system and integrate a merchant account.
Cheap E-commerce Websites
The cheap e-commerce websites were around $3,500.00. We would also get clients that wanted to sell a lot of products and group them by category. Take for example clothing, you could have a category for Men and another for Women and these would be the main categories. Additionally, each of those two main categories could have many subcategories. For example, shoes, shorts, shirts, and the list goes on. In that case, we would have to develop a shopping cart system that allows the client to create categories. Additionally, they’d need to be able to create as many main categories and as many subcategories as they want. Once that work is done then we still need to develop a shopping cart system and integrate it with a gateway from the client’s merchant account provider. This might be a $6,500.00 e-commerce web development project.
E-commerce Web Development
We have had clients ask for more advanced features which we would have to custom program for them. One client that owns a Miami jewelry store wanted to sell jewelry online. His store employees would always ask their customers for their birthday and anniversary dates. Consequently, we did some custom programming to develop a CRM website. As a result, the Customer Relationship Management System was built right into the website. This way, the website automatically emails customers two weeks prior to their birthday and anniversary. The result is that it will remind them that it is not too late to get a gift.
Sell Your Classes Online
We have a client that sells cooking classes online. In this e-commerce web design project there are no products to ship. However, people need to select the class they want from a calendar of events. We custom developed the calendar so that our client could easily make updates to the calendar.
One client wanted to sell thousands of products and wanted the website to keep track of inventory and notify him when the inventory got down to a specific amount. We were able to build that so that he could enter any number as the low inventory. For example, if he sets his low inventory alert at 10 then when he has 10 remaining the website would email him.
Another consideration is regarding what you’d like to happen when you are sold out of an item. For instance, we can program the website to automatically remove that item when inventory reaches zero. However, you may prefer that we set the website to show that it is sold out. In that case, the click to buy button would be removed. Additionally, we could have a place where people can enter their email address. As a result, they would be notified when the out of stock item is available again.
Custom programming all of these options takes time and costs money. For that reason, e-commerce website development used to be the most expensive type of website we offered.
Affordable E-Commerce Web Development
Ok, so how is it that now we are able to offer affordable e-commerce web development? The answer was so obvious that it is hard to believe that we never thought of this sooner. This can only work for e-commerce websites because although the programming is complex, the websites are the same. Additionally, it is different from the simpler projects such as a website for a lawyer. For example, for an attorney, we need to gather a lot of information about the lawyer or the law firm. Then our writer will easily spend an entire week working on the text for the entire website. Additionally, we would need to add photos of all the lawyers. Then we need to add bios about each attorney in the law office.
All of this takes time and time is money. Conversely, for the e-commerce website, we started to think about the fact they are so similar. Also, we almost never add the products for the client. This is because in the time it would take for the client to email us all the information they could do it themselves. For that reason, we custom programmed an easy to use CMS or Content Management System into all of our e-commerce websites. Thereby, making it easy for our clients to add products on their own.
Affordable E-Commerce Web Design
We came up with the idea to make an e-commerce web design that had all of the features most people want. As a result, once we developed this very robust website then the rest was easy. Consequently, we simply duplicate this very advanced website each time we get a new customer. As a result, whether they wanted inventory tracking or not, its included. Best of all, everything is included for only $299.99. Additionally, we can change the basic look of the website by offering different layouts. For example, some layouts are free and some more advanced layouts that cost a little extra. The clients can add all the categories and subcategories. Additionally, they can add as many products as they want.
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