E-Commerce & Online Shop Design
With the IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) reporting that online sales in December last year topped £5.46 billion, and that online sales for 2010 are expected to grow by 13%, it is high time businesses consider online retailing to attract customers that are now opting to shop from home.
We are able to deliver various levels of e-commerce functionality to cater for a wide variety of businesses and online budgets; this can include ‘plugins’ to existing websites and our content management system, to more advanced standalone solutions that work independently.
Breakdown of features
Our e-commerce system has been developed with both retailer and customer in mind, and
- Supports unlimited products and categories
- Add/Edit/Remove categories, product information, customers accounts, and reviews
- Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
- Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation
- Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
- Easily backup and restore the site database
- Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
- Multicurrency support
- Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
- Customers can view their order history and order statuses
- Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
- No web development experience necessary required to edit the website itself
- Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
- Support for secure transactions with SSL
- Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
- Accepts numerous offline payment processing (cheque, money orders, offline credit care processing)
- Accepts numerous online payment processing (PayPal, Sage Pay, Google Checkout)
Standalone or integrated
Alongside building a bespoke and standalone e-commerce website, we can also integrate online shopping functionality into our content management websites. This is ideal should you wish to add online shopping at a later date.
Multiple Payment Options
Our e-commerce system utilises online payment gateways such as PayPal, Sage Pay and Google Checkout to reduce overheads and the risk of fraud, however should you so require, the system also supports offline payments.
Featured Client
Based in the picturesque village of Bourton on the Water, High Bridge Jewellers is an independent jewellery store.
Alongisde building a bespoke website for them, High Bridge Jewellers asked us to build a standalone e-commerce webshop from which they could display and sell a small range of their luxury items online.
After a careful business review and customer analysis, we developed and implemented a new online webshop that featured custom modules such as secure payment processing, customer reviews, voucher promotion and an inbuilt newsletter mailing list.
Get in touch
If you are considering making the jump into the world of e-commerce, we’d love to hear from you.